Geographies of the Holocaust
By: edited by Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano
Series: Spatial humanities; Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780253012111
Subjects: Case studies; World War, 1939-1945; Historical geography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Atrocities; History
Description: "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, geographers, and geographic information scientists 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Geographies of the Holocaust / Alberto Giordano, Anne Kelly Knowles, and Tim Cole; title: Mappping the SS concentration camps / Anne Kelly Knowles, Paul B. Jaskot, Benjamin Perry Blackshear, Michael De Groot, and Alexander Yule; title: Retracing the "hunt for Jews" : A spatio-temporal analysis of arrests during the Holocaust in Italy / Alberto Giordano and Anne Holian; title: Killing on the ground and in the mind : the spatialities of genocide in the East / Waitman Wade Beorn and Anne Kelly Knowles; title: Bringing the ghetto to the Jew : spatialities of ghettoization in Budapest / Tim Cole and Alberto Giordano; title: Visualizing the archive : building at Auschwitz as a geographic problem / Paul B. Jaskot, Anne Kelly Knowles, Chester Harvey, and Benjamin Perry Blackshear; title: From the camp to the road : representing the evacuations from Auschwitz, January 1945 / Simone Gigliotti, Marc J. Masurovsky, and Erik B. Steiner; title: Afterword / Paul B. Jaskot and Tim Cole.