Britain and Holocaust Consciousness in the 1960s

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Until now, the scholarly literature on the development of Holocaust consciousness in the UK, the 1960s has been a missing decade. This book brings together an impressive cast of expert scholars to provide a much-needed corrective to the situation. It ranges widely across disciplines and cultural spheres, as well as the nations and regions of the UK, to reveal that what we now call Holocaust consciousness was decisively created in the UK the 1960s.

Britain and Holocaust Consciousness in the 1960s sheds light remarkably for the first time on the British reaction to the 1961 Eichmann Trial. It considers the previously unexamined lives of Kindertransportees as they entered their thirties and forties, as well as the 1964 Dering v Uris libel trial in London, at the heart of which were horrific medical experiments at Auschwitz and which was covered extensively by the British press at the time. The book also covers a wealth of British cultural responses to the Holocaust from the period, including memoir literature, cinema, theatre and music, and incorporates vital material on children, refugees, survivors, gender and religion.

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Dan Stone is Professor of History and Director of the Holocaust Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of several books, including The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath (2015), Goodbye to All That The Story of Europe since 1945 (2014) and Histories of the Holocaust (2010). Professor Stone has edited and co-edited numerous books, such as The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (2012) and The Historiography of Genocide (2008). He is also a co-editor of the Journal of Genocide Research and the Patterns of Prejudice journal.

Johannes-Dieter Steinert is Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published ten monographs, including, Przemyslowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials (with Kasia Person; 2022), and Holocaust und Zwangsarbeit. Erinnerungen jdischer Kinder 1938-1945 (2018).

Gabriel N. Finder, recently retired, taught at the University of Virginia, USA, serving for seven years as director of its Jewish Studies Program. His research encompasses the Holocaust, Jewish rebuilding in its aftermath, and postwar justice. He is co-editor of Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation after the Holocaust (2015) and co-author of Justice Behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland (2018).