Overview

The editors selected 58 images from noted collections consisting of vintage photography, propaganda posters, newsreel stills and the like, matching each to a poet, short story or flash fiction writer, plus features by essayists. Each writer interpreted these 'silent witnesses' from the period in their own unique way. The book includes four parts: Part I covers the rise of Nazism and heightening antisemitism. Writers focus on key events such as the Beer Hall Putsch and the Berlin Olympics. Part II revolves around forced labor, ghettos, and extermination, dealing with such topics as death squads, the 'final solution' and collaborators. Part III is all about escape, rescue, and resistance, including the Danish rescue of its Jewish population and the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Part IV deals with the aftermath, the liberation of concentration camp prisoners, the refugee crisis and the Nuremberg trials. Together this diverse group, including writers of color, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ, prominent and emerging writers, have contributed a powerful body of work, that challenges international trends of xenophobia and anti-democratic movements by using power of art to portray truth.

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Author:   Howard Debs ,  Matthew Silverman
Publisher:   Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd
ISBN:  

9781803710266

ISBN 10:   1803710268
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   18 April 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Adult education ,  Undergraduate ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Introduction PART IThe Rise of Nazism and Heightening AntisemitismChanukah: Kiel, Germany Yehoshua November The Child, the Bears, the War: 4 Views Jane Yolen Imagining my Great-Grandfather before He Was a Partisan, before He Was a Father Julia Dasbach The Beer Hall Putsch Tony Barnstone Postcard, 1932 Dan Bellm Physiognomy 101 Steven Sher Dog Walter and the Walther Pistol Mark Budman Books Fly like Birds Robert Perry Ivey The Other Peter Serchuk Flying African Geoffrey Philp Bystander Nancy Naomi Carlson Midnight Cake Alejandro Escude Kinder Gardens Su Hwang Night of the Broken Glass Philip Terman Body Boarding Gretchen Primack The Day Before Sue William Silverman Interwar Europe and the Scourge of 'Identity Politics' Paul Vincent PART IIForced Labor, Ghettos, ExterminationViewfinder Ben Banyard ""A Vort Far A Vort"" Tit For Tat Judith Baumel In the Lodz Ghetto Marge Piercy Photograph of Jews Probably Arriving to the Lodz Ghetto Circa 1941-1942 Ellen Bass Assassination Greg Harris Buchenwald Raficq Abdulla SS Photo, Auschwitz, 1944 Jacqueline Osherow Words are Like Rivers Bruce Black Regen aus Heiterem Himmel Rain from a Blue Sky Erin Redfern The Cigar Burning In Himmler's Hand Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum Lubny, 1941 Susanna Lang Roma Bruce Bond Regarding the Pain of Others Alan Catlin Good Girls Sara Lippmann No One Marilyn Kallet Thoughts about the Inhumanity of Humanity Rob Rosenthal PART III Escape, Rescue, ResistanceDuckwitz Tim Seibles Three Flowers Ami Kaye ichthus Amy Kinsman My Grandfather, a Refugee, Lined Up Outside the American Consulate in Marseilles Cheryl J. Fish Street Inventory Lauren Camp Chiune Sugihara and Family Outside the Japanese Consulate in Koenigsberg, Germany (1941) Cyril Wong We Built a House Dina Elenbogen Witness Wendy Brandmark Sobibor Becky Touch A man's arms may TC Tolbert So Be It (Amen) Cortney Lamar Charleston DAWN Fabienne Josaphat Without Question Lois Jones Untitled (Maroon Bramble Wicks, August 1944) Mark Tardi Unearthed (The Ringelblum Archive) Amy Gerstler Moral Lessons of Remembering theHolocaust: A Muslim Response Mehnaz Afridi PART IV Aftermath1945 Linda Pastan After the Liberation of Mauthausen: A Testimony Jean Nordhaus Aftermath Myra Sklarew Flight M. Miriam Herrera Nastupiste Patty Seyburn Newer Eyes Gili Haimovich What Comes Next Scott Nadelson The Displaced Barry Seiler If You, Like I, Seek a Happy Diaspora Nomi Stone Letter from Nuremberg, October 2nd 1946 Saul Hillel Benjamin A New Passover Prayer Before the Eating of the Korech (as commentary on the Nuremberg trials) Richard Michelson The Last Survivor Lia Pripstein-Lane Virtues in the Wake of Auschwitz Sam Fleischacker"

Reviews

""The aim to incorporate cognitive science in the New Voices project is most worthy and should certainly be pursued."" --Paul Vincent, Professor Emeritus, Holocaust & Genocide Studies Keene State College ""Part of what art is doing is different from what photographs [alone] do. It's different from what visits to the sites of atrocities do because it's creating forms that have to be reassimilated by individuals, it is creating an event that happens inside [each person]."" --Joy Ladin, former Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University ""As a Holocaust survivor, I am deeply concerned with the survival of the memory of this catastrophic event. It is my conviction that survival of any historical event can be assured only when such events become transformed into various forms of art."" --Anna Ornstein, Professor Emerita of Child Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati

The aim to incorporate cognitive science in the New Voices project is most worthy and should certainly be pursued. --Paul Vincent, Professor Emeritus, Holocaust & Genocide Studies Keene State College Part of what art is doing is different from what photographs [alone] do. It's different from what visits to the sites of atrocities do because it's creating forms that have to be reassimilated by individuals, it is creating an event that happens inside [each person]. --Joy Ladin, former Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University As a Holocaust survivor, I am deeply concerned with the survival of the memory of this catastrophic event. It is my conviction that survival of any historical event can be assured only when such events become transformed into various forms of art. --Anna Ornstein, Professor Emerita of Child Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati

"""The aim to incorporate cognitive science in the New Voices project is most worthy and should certainly be pursued."" --Paul Vincent, Professor Emeritus, Holocaust & Genocide Studies Keene State College ""Part of what art is doing is different from what photographs [alone] do. It's different from what visits to the sites of atrocities do because it's creating forms that have to be reassimilated by individuals, it is creating an event that happens inside [each person]."" --Joy Ladin, former Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University ""As a Holocaust survivor, I am deeply concerned with the survival of the memory of this catastrophic event. It is my conviction that survival of any historical event can be assured only when such events become transformed into various forms of art."" --Anna Ornstein, Professor Emerita of Child Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati"

Author Information

Matthew Silverman is co-editor of The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary American Jewish Poetry and 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, and author of The Floating Door and The Breath Before Birds Fly. Howard Debs is a recipient of the 2015 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Awards. His book Gallery is the recipient of a 2017 Best Book Award and 2018 Book Excellence Award. His chapbook Political is the 2021 American Writing Awards winner in poetry

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