Geographies of the Holocaust

Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780253012111
• eBook ISBN:
  9780253012319
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Holocaust History
• Index: Social Sciences

"[A] pioneering work . . . Shed[s] light on the historic events surrounding the Holocaust from place, space, and environment-oriented perspectives." —Rudi Hartmann, PhD, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado
 
This book explores the geographies of the Holocaust at every scale of human experience, from the European continent to the experiences of individual human bodies. Built on six innovative case studies, it brings together historians and geographers to interrogate the places and spaces of the genocide. The cases encompass the landscapes of particular places (the killing zones in the East, deportations from sites in Italy, the camps of Auschwitz, the ghettos of Budapest) and the intimate spaces of bodies on evacuation marches. Geographies of the Holocaust puts forward models and a research agenda for different ways of visualizing and thinking about the Holocaust by examining the spaces and places where it was enacted and experienced.
 
"An excellent collection of scholarship and a model of interdisciplinary collaboration . . . The volume makes a timely contribution to the ongoing emergence of the spatial humanities and will undoubtedly advance scholarly and popular understandings of the Holocaust." — H-HistGeog
 
"An important work . . . and could be required reading in any number of courses on political geography, GIS, critical theory, biopolitics, genocide, and so forth." — Journal of Historical Geography
 
"Both students and researchers will find this work to be immensely informative and innovative . . . Essential." — Choice

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Geographies of the Holocaust
• 2. Mapping the SS Concentration Camps
• 3. Retracing the “Hunt for Jews”: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Arrests during the Holocaust in Italy
• 4. Killing on the Ground and in the Mind: The Spatialities of Genocide in the East
• 5. Bringing the Ghetto to the Jew: Spatialities of Ghettoization in Budapest
• 6. Visualizing the Archive: Building at Auschwitz as a Geographic Problem
• 7. From the Camp to the Road: Representing the Evacuations from Auschwitz, January 1945
• 8. Afterword
• Contributors
• Index