Britain and the Holocaust: Remembering and Representing War and Genocide

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
‘No One Believed What We Had Seen’: British Soldiers Who Witnessed Mass Murder in Auschwitz....Pages 13-30
Holocaust on Trial: Mass Observation and British Media Responses to the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945–1946....Pages 31-50
Loose Connections? Britain and the ‘Final Solution’....Pages 51-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
‘Marvellous Raisins in a Badly-Cooked Cake’: British Reactions to the Screening of Holocaust....Pages 71-89
‘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....Pages 90-114
The Holocaust in British Television and Film: A Look over the Fence....Pages 115-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Holocaust Art at the Imperial War Museum, 1945–2009....Pages 129-141
Holocaust Memory and Contemporary Atrocities: The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition and Crimes Against Humanity Exhibition....Pages 142-159
The Holocaust and Colonial Genocide at the Imperial War Museum....Pages 160-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
‘We Should Do Something for the Fiftieth’: Remembering Auschwitz, Belsen and the Holocaust in Britain in 1995....Pages 171-189
Britain’s Holocaust Memorial Day: Inculcating ‘British’ or ‘European’ Holocaust Consciousness?....Pages 190-211
From Stockholm to Stockton: The Holocaust and/as Heritage in Britain....Pages 212-229
Back Matter....Pages 230-244