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

Contributor(s): Lawson, Tom [editor.] | Pearce, Andy, 1981- [editor.] | ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.]Publisher: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030559328; 9783030559311Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion | Historiography -- Great BritainGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: Click here to access online - 1 user
Contents:
Britain and the Holocaust : an introduction / Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce -- I. Political contexts -- British interwar fascism and anti-fascism / Daniel Tilles -- The agenda of British refugee policy, 1933-48 / Louise London -- II. Refugees in Britain, 1933-39 -- The immigration and reception of Jewish refugees from the Third Reich / Anthony Grenville -- 'I remember their labels round their necks' Britain and the Kindertransport / Andrea Hammel -- III. War and Holocaust Knowledge in Britain of the Holocaust during the second world war / Michael Fleming -- The unlikely tale of a hero named coward : uncomfortable truths and the necessary war / Russell Wallis -- Belson and the British / Dan Stone -- IV. Punishment and memory -- 'Where exactly, is Auschwitz?' British confrontation with the Holocaust through the medium of the 1945 'Belson' trial / Caroline Sharples -- Campaigning for justice : anti-fascist campaigners, Nazi-era collaborator war criminals and Britain's failure to prosecute, 1945-1999 / Siobhán Hyland and Paul Jackson -- Selective histories : Britain, the empire and the Holocaust / Michelle Gordon -- V. Cultural representations -- Beyond the cesspit beneath : The BBC and the Holocaust / James Jordan -- British cinema and the Holocaust / Barry Langford -- British Holocaust literature / Sue Vice -- The Holocaust in British society -- A defining decade? Swastikas, Eichmann and arson in 1960s Britain / Nigel Copsey -- The legacy of the Holocaust, Jewish history and British antisemitism : the 'Jew murderer' and the murder of the Jews / Tony Kushner -- 'I belong here. I know I ought never to have come back, because it has proved I have never been away' : Kitty Hart-Moxon's documentaries of return / Isabel Wollaston -- VII. Public pedagogy -- Holocaust education in England : concerns, controversies and challenges / Stuart Foster -- Holocaust representation in the Imperial War Museum, 2000-2020 / Hannah Holtschneider -- Negotiating memory and agency : David Cesarani and the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust exhibition (2000) / Chad McDonald -- VIII. Institutional memory -- From celebrating diversity to British values : the changing face of Holocaust memorial day in Britain / Kara Critchell -- Visions of permanence, realities of instability : the prime minister's Holocaust commission and the United Kingdom Holocaust memorial foundation / David Tollerton -- IX. Postscript -- Britishness, Brexit, and the Holocaust.
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Britain and the Holocaust : an introduction / Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce -- I. Political contexts -- British interwar fascism and anti-fascism / Daniel Tilles -- The agenda of British refugee policy, 1933-48 / Louise London -- II. Refugees in Britain, 1933-39 -- The immigration and reception of Jewish refugees from the Third Reich / Anthony Grenville -- 'I remember their labels round their necks' Britain and the Kindertransport / Andrea Hammel -- III. War and Holocaust Knowledge in Britain of the Holocaust during the second world war / Michael Fleming -- The unlikely tale of a hero named coward : uncomfortable truths and the necessary war / Russell Wallis -- Belson and the British / Dan Stone -- IV. Punishment and memory -- 'Where exactly, is Auschwitz?' British confrontation with the Holocaust through the medium of the 1945 'Belson' trial / Caroline Sharples -- Campaigning for justice : anti-fascist campaigners, Nazi-era collaborator war criminals and Britain's failure to prosecute, 1945-1999 / Siobhán Hyland and Paul Jackson -- Selective histories : Britain, the empire and the Holocaust /
Michelle Gordon -- V. Cultural representations -- Beyond the cesspit beneath : The BBC and the Holocaust / James Jordan -- British cinema and the Holocaust / Barry Langford -- British Holocaust literature / Sue Vice -- The Holocaust in British society -- A defining decade? Swastikas, Eichmann and arson in 1960s Britain / Nigel Copsey -- The legacy of the Holocaust, Jewish history and British antisemitism : the 'Jew murderer' and the murder of the Jews / Tony Kushner -- 'I belong here. I know I ought never to have come back, because it has proved I have never been away' : Kitty Hart-Moxon's documentaries of return / Isabel Wollaston -- VII. Public pedagogy -- Holocaust education in England : concerns, controversies and challenges / Stuart Foster -- Holocaust representation in the Imperial War Museum, 2000-2020 / Hannah Holtschneider -- Negotiating memory and agency : David Cesarani and the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust exhibition (2000) / Chad McDonald -- VIII. Institutional memory -- From celebrating diversity to British values : the changing face of Holocaust memorial day in Britain / Kara Critchell -- Visions of permanence, realities of instability : the prime minister's Holocaust commission and the United Kingdom Holocaust memorial foundation / David Tollerton -- IX. Postscript -- Britishness, Brexit, and the Holocaust.

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