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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798077903321

Autore

Karn Alexander

Titolo

Amending the past : Europe's Holocaust commissions and the right to history / / Alexander Karn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-299-30553-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

Critical Human Rights

Disciplina

940.53/1807204

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography

Truth commissions - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Confronting the Holocaust as Historical Injustice; Part I . National Holocaust Commissions; 1. France and Switzerland: Myths of Resistance and Neutrality; 2. Poles and Jews: Mediating the Jedwabne Conflict; 3. Austria and Italy: The Reich and Its Allies; 4. Lithuania and Latvia: The Limitsof "Double Genocide"; Part II. Bilateral and International Commissions; 5. Germany and Its Neighbors; 6. The International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims; 7. The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission

Conclusion: Truth-Telling, Narrativity, and the Right to HistoryNotes; Index