Amending the past
Subtitle: Europe's Holocaust commissions and the right to history
By: Alexander Karn
Series: Critical human rights
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780299305505; 9780299305536
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Truth commissions
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-302) and index.