Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. The New York Black Book of 1946: A United Jewish Response to Nazi Crimes 23
6. Israeli Holocaust Memory and the Cold War 51
7. “The Communist Schism in Jewish Life”: Transnational Politics and Holocaust Commemorations among Parisian Jews during the Cold War 73
8. The Cold War and Holocaust Memorialization in Soviet Publications of the 1960s 93
9. Writing Holocaust History across the Iron Curtain: Alberto Nirenstein’s A Tower from the Enemy / Ricorda cosa ti ha fatto Amalek 119
10. East-West Encounters at the Adolf-Heinz Beckerle Trial (1967–1968): How Holocaust Knowledge and Remembrance Went Global 147
11. Accountability and the Cold War: The Eichmann Trial and Holocaust Representation in the Soviet Union 173
12. Moral Universalism in the East: Anti-Fascist Humanism and the Memory of the Holocaust in Zoltán Fábri’s Film Late Season (1967) 201
13. A Tableau of a Crime Taking Shape under the Viewer’s Gaze: The Trajectories of Yosef Kuzkovski’s The Last Way (1944–1970) 223
14. The West German View of the Holocaust in the Occupied Soviet Union: The Case of Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955–1960 255
15. “The Second Death”: Günther Andersʼ Travels to Postwar Berlin 275
16. Fighting Nazis and Confronting the Past: The German Democratic Republic and the National Committee against Nazis in the United States 293
17. Contributor Biographies 315
18. Index 319