Britain and the Holocaust Remembering and Representing War and Genocide

The Holocaust occupies a central place in British society. References within media and political spheres remain commonplace and there has been a national Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK every January since 2000. Remembrance of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide plays an important role in the creation of social cohesion and identity in Britain, yet how, exactly, does the country deal with this difficult period of history?

Bringing together leading academics in the field, this volume explores Britain's complex relationship with the Holocaust since 1945. Encompassing representations of the Holocaust within film, art, public exhibition spaces and official, state-sanctioned commemoration, this study offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the subject and highlights some of the latest developments in research. It examines political, social and cultural reactions to the Holocaust and contributes to wider questions as to how war and genocide is recalled in today's multicultural Britain.

Caroline Sharples is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester, UK and author of West Germans and the Nazi Legacy (New York: 2012).
 
Olaf Jensen is Lecturer in Holocaust Studies at the University of Leicester, UK and Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Introduction; Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen
PART I: CONFRONTING THE HOLOCAUST
1. 'No One Believed What We Had Seen': British Soldiers who Witnessed
Mass Murder in Auschwitz; Duncan Little
2. Holocaust on Trial: Mass Observation and British Media Responses to the
Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945-6; Caroline Sharples
3. Loose Connections? Britain and the 'Final Solution'; Tony Kushner
PART II: THE HOLOCAUST ON SCREEN
4. 'Marvellous Raisins in a Badly-Cooked Cake': British reactions to the
screening of Holocaust;Tim Cole
5. 'And the trouble is where to begin to spring surprises on you. Perhaps a place
you might least like to remember.' This is Your Life and the BBC's images of
the Holocaust in the twenty years before Holocaust; James Jordan
6. The Holocaust in British Television and Film: A Look Over the Fence; Olaf Jensen
PART III: THE HOLOCAUST IN EXHIBITIONS
7. Holocaust Art at the Imperial War Museum, 1945-2009; Antoine Capet
8. Holocaust Memory and Contemporary Atrocities: The IWM's Holocaust
Exhibition and Crimes Against Humanity Exhibition; Rebecca Jinks
9. The Holocaust and Colonial Genocide at the Imperial War Museum; Tom Lawson
PART III: COMMEMORATING THE HOLOCAUST
10. 'We Should Do Something for the Fiftieth': Remembering Auschwitz,
Belsen and the Holocaust in Britain in 1995; Mark Donnelly
11. Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day: Inculcating 'British' or 'European'
Holocaust Consciousness?; Andy Pearce
12. From Stockholm to Stockton: The Holocaust And/As Heritage in Britain; Dan Stone