'Jungle law reigned among the prisoners': the meaning of cannibalism in the testimonies of Nazi concentration camps’ survivors

Autor: Kobi Kabalek

Publikováno v: Heritage, Memory and Conflict, Vol 3, Iss , Pp 71-74 (2023)

What do Holocaust survivors do when they refer to cannibalism in their testimonies? This piece argues that they do not merely describe what they have witnessed or heard of, but also ponder the boundaries of humanity. For centuries, Europeans have mad

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The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema: Violence Void Visualization

Autor: Michael Elm, Editor, Kobi Kabalek, Editor, Julia B. Köhne, Editor

This volume explores the multifaceted depiction and staging of historical and social traumata as the result of extreme violence within national contexts. It focuses on Israeli-Palestinian, German and (US) American film, and reaches out to cinematic t

'Other Germans': Exceptions and Rules in the Memory of Rescuing Jews in Postwar Germany

Autor: Kobi Kabalek

Publikováno v: Central European History. 55:390-409

The rising German interest in rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust has been accompanied by an emphasis on their exceptionality among the wartime German population. Seen as aberrations, rescuers are used to present a simplified generalization of the

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008938921001357

Commemorating Failure: Unsuccessful Rescue of Jews in German Film and Literature, 1945–1960*

Autor: Kobi Kabalek

Publikováno v: German History. 38:96-112

Scholars have so far interpreted postwar depictions of Germans saving Jews from Nazi persecution mainly as apologetic references that allowed Germans to avoid addressing problematic aspects of their history. Yet although such portrayals appear in man

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https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghz021

Deportiert nach Mauthausen

Autor: Piotr Filipkowski, Peter Hallama, Merethe Aagaard Jensen, Katrin Auer, Viviana Frenkel, Katja Happe, Irina Scherbakowa, Barbara Nicole Wiesinger, Kobi Kabalek, Gerhard Botz, Heinrich Berger, Hana Kubátová, Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset, Helga Amesberger, Regina Fritz, Mercedes Vilanova, Alexander Prenninger, Imke Hansen, Brigitte Halbmayr, Doris Felsen-Escojido, Bozo Repe, Alexander von Plato, Katarzyna Madon-Mitzner, Melanie Dejnega

Publikováno v: Prenninger, Alexander; Fritz, Regina; Botz, Gerhard; Dejnega, Melanie (eds.) (2021). Deportiert nach Mauthausen. Europa in Mauthausen: Vol. 2. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau 10.7767/9783205212164

„Europa in Mauthausen“ stellt erstmals umfassend die Geschichte der Überlebenden eines nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagers dar. Diese beruht auf einer einmaligen Sammlung von über 850 lebensgeschichtlichen Interviews mit Überlebenden

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