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This volume considers the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. History of this aid has drawn the attention of scholars and the general public alike. Stories of heroic citizens who hid and rescued Jewish men, women, and children have been adapted into books, films, plays, public commemorations, and museum exhibitions. Yet, emphasis on the uplifting narratives often obscures the history of violence and complicity with Nazi policies of persecution and mass murder. Each of the ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection is dedicated to a different country: Belarus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine. The case studies provide new insights into what has emerged as one of the most prominent and visible trends in recent Holocaust memory and memory politics. While many of the essays focus on recent developments, they also shed light on the evolution of this phenomenon since 1945.

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"Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research focuses on the history of East European Jewry, Polish-Jewish relations, and the Holocaust. She is the author of Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust. She has also edited numerous collections on the history of Polish Jews and the Holocaust including Polin, vol. 29: ""Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe,"" and European Holocaust Studies, vol. 3: ""Places, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust."" Raphael Utz is a historian of Eastern Europe at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, specializing in the history of the German occupation of Europe in the Second World War and in Holocaust aftermath studies. He is the author of Rußlands unbrauchbare Vergangenheit and editor of The Russian Revolution of 1905 in Transcultural Perspective and Orte der Shoah in Polen. Zofia Wóycicka is assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw specializing in memory and museum studies. She is the author of Arrested Mourning: Memory of the Nazi Camps in Poland, 1944–1950 and coeditor of Memory Studies, vol. 15, no. 6: ""Mnemonic Wars: New Constellations."" She has also published numerous articles in handbooks, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed journals including History & Memory, Memory Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Contributors Include: Sofie Lene Bak, Anna Bikont, Anna Marie Droumpouki, Sarah Gensburger, Ido de Haan, Liliana Hentosh, Hana Kubátová, Mark Roseman, Naum Trajanovski, Anika Walke"

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