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Tuesday, September 16

10 AM CT/11 AM ET/4 PM BT

Join Handbook co-editors Sarah Cushman, Joanne Pettitt, and Dominic Williams, who will discuss the origins and parameters of the volume, as well as four contributing authors: Christoph Kreutzmüller, Jacek Małczyński, Sue Vice, and Maria Visconti, who will briefly discuss their chapters.

Participants can purchase the book here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-to-Auschwitz-Birkenau/Cushman-Pettitt-Williams/p/book/9781032202440.

This handbook examines Auschwitz-Birkenau as a site and a symbol of Nazi genocide. Scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives consider Auschwitz’s history by engaging its place in Holocaust historiography, and Holocaust memory and representation, illustrating their mutual influence.

The chapters bring new insights to topics that other studies of Auschwitz have explored before, such as the Sonderkommando, the Czech family camp, and literary representations. Other chapters cover recent developments and more neglected areas, such as the experience and memory of Romani prisoners, the fate of Soviet prisoners of war, and Auschwitz’s presence on social media. The handbook also responds to recent trends and new paradigms in Holocaust Studies, including contributions from the fields of Environmental Studies, Spatial Studies, and Gender Studies.

As a crucial overview of the topic of Auschwitz-Birkenau and an introduction to its most recent and fruitful scholarly approaches, this handbook will be a valuable resource for undergraduates from second year and up, as well as for graduate students and researchers seeking a survey of the field.