Memory and Denial

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

This panel addresses three unique postwar responses to the Holocaust. The first paper examines a particular Jewish survivor lens of the rebirth of Jewish life in Poland after the Holocaust through film, the second addresses a decidedly non-Jewish, antisemitic group of Holocaust deniers, while the third bridges the gap between them, offering the case study of non-Jews in Poland empathically interacting with the memory of Jews killed in the Holocaust through an intimate letter-writing project.

Sub Unit

• Holocaust Studies

Chair

• Anne Rothfeld, Independent Scholar

Individual Presentations

• The Innocent Gaze: Filming the Aftermath of the Holocaust in Post-War Poland - Rocco Giansante, Yad Vashem

• Holocaust Denial on Campus: the Case of Pacifica Forum - Grace Weible

• Social Justice Activism through Fantasizing Memory and Intimacy: Letters to a Murdered Jewish Child - Carolin Aronis, Colorado State University

Zoom Host

• Zoom Host 04