The Palgrave handbook of Britain and the Holocaust / Tom Lawson, Andy Pearce, editors.

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe?s Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in the 1930s, through formal react...

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Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Britain and the Holocaust: An Introduction / Andy Pearce
  • pt. I Political Contexts
  • 2. British Interwar Fascism and Anti-fascism / Daniel Tilles
  • 3. The Agenda of British Refugee Policy, 1933
  • 18 / Louise London
  • pt. II Refugees in Britain: 1933
  • 39
  • 4. The Immigration and Reception of Jewish Refugees from the Third Reich / Anthony Grenville
  • 5. T Remember Their Labels Round Their Necks' Britain and the Kinder transport / Andrea Hammel
  • pt. III War and Holocaust
  • 6. Knowledge in Britain of the Holocaust During the Second World War / Michael Fleming
  • 7. The Unlikely Tale of a Hero Named Coward: Uncomfortable Truths and the Necessary War / Russell Wallis
  • 8. Belsen and the British / Dan Stone
  • pt. IV Punishment and Memory
  • 9. `Where, Exactly, Is Auschwitz?' British Confrontation with the Holocaust Through the Medium of the 1945 `Belsen' Trial / Caroline Sharpies
  • 10. Campaigning for Justice: Anti-Fascist Campaigners, Nazi-Era Collaborator War Criminals and Britain's Failure to Prosecute, 1945
  • 1999 / Paul Jackson
  • 11. Selective Histories: Britain, the Empire and the Holocaust / Michelle Gordon
  • pt. V Cultural Representations
  • 12. Beyond the Cesspit Beneath: The BBC and the Holocaust / James Jordan
  • 13. British Cinema and the Holocaust / Barry Langford
  • 14. British Holocaust Literature / Sue Vice
  • pt. VI The Holocaust in British Society
  • 15. A Defining Decade? Swastikas, Eichmann and Arson in 1960s Britain / Nigel Copsey
  • 16. The Legacy of the Holocaust, Jewish History and British Antisemitism: The `Jew Murderer' and the Murder of the Jews / Tony Kushner
  • 17. T Belong Here. I Know I Ought Never to Have Come Back, Because It Has Proved I've Never Been Away': Kitty Hart-Moxon's Documentaries of Return / Isabel Wollaston
  • pt. VII Public Pedagogy
  • 18. Holocaust Education in England: Concerns, Controversies and Challenges / Stuart Foster
  • 19. Holocaust Representation in the Imperial War Museum, 2000
  • 2020 / Hannah Holtschneider
  • 20. Negotiating Memory and Agency: David Cesarani and the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition (2000) / Chad Mcdonald
  • pt. VIII Institutional Memory
  • 21. From Celebrating Diversity to British Values: The Changing Face of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain / Kara Critchell
  • 22. Visions of Permanence, Realities of Instability: The Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission and the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation / David Tollerton
  • pt. IX Postscript
  • 23. Britishness, Brexit, and the Holocaust / Andy Pearce.