Title: Amending the past : Europe's Holocaust commissions and the right to history /
Authors: Karn, Alexander.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography; Truth commissions Europe.
Abstract: Examines the historical commissions created in the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe to confront, discuss, and document the Holocaust and address some of its unresolved injustices. Evaluates their potential for promoting justice and develops a program for historical mediation and moral reparation.
Contents: Introduction : confronting the Holocaust as historical injustice -- National Holocaust commissions. France and Switzerland : myths of resistance and neutrality ; Poles and Jews : mediating the Jedwabne conflict ; Austria and Italy : the Reich and its allies -- Lithuania and Latvia : the limits of "double genocide -- Bilateral and international commissions. Germany and its neighbors ; The International Commission on Holocaust-Era Insurance Claims ; The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission -- Conclusion : truth-telling, narrativity, and the right to history.