Panel 2: Rescue and Escape from the Holocaust

Panel 2: Rescue and Escape from the Holocaust Nina Paulovicova, University of Alberta, Canada: “The Silenced Phenomenon of Cross-National Rescue: 'Leaking Border' and Paid Smugglers” Download Paper (login required) Tomasz Frydel, University of Toronto: "Rescue or Denunciation of Jews? A Case Study of Southeastern Poland during German Occupation" Download Paper (login required) Tanja von Fransecky, Technical University, Berlin, Germany: "Escape and Attempted Escape of Jewish Deportees from Deportation Trains in France, Belgium and the Netherlands” Download Paper (login required) Chair: Adara Goldberg and Elizabeth Anthony, Clark UniversityComment: Deborah Dwork, Clark University

Panel 3: Encounters of Perpetrators and Victims of Genocides

Panel 3: Encounters of Perpetrators and Victims of Genocides Lina Nikou, University of Hamburg, Germany: “Coming Back Home? Berlin Presents Itself to Refugees of the Nazi Regime Living Abroad” Download paper (login required) Michelle Bellino, Harvard University: “Whose Past, Whose Present? Historical Memory among the ‘Postwar’ Generation in Guatemala” Download paper (login required) Srdjan Radovic, Belgrade University/Institute of Ethnography SASA, Serbia: “Memory Culture, Politics of Place, and Social Actors in the Remembrance of Belgrade's World War II Camp” Download paper (login required) Chair: Michael Nolte and Michael Geheran, Clark University Comment: Omer Bartov, Brown University

Panel 5: Memories and Fantasies of Genocides

Panel 5: Memories and Fantasies of Genocides Mark Hobbs, University of Winchester, United Kingdom: "Destroying Memory: The Attack on Holocaust Conscience and Memory in Britain 1942-2011" Download paper (login required) Kristen Dyck, Washington State University: "Hate Rock: White-Power Music in International Perspective" Download paper (login required) Audrey Mallet, Concordia University, Canada: “The Old Jewish Strangler and Other Ghost Stories: Poles’ Struggle to Come to Terms with the Holocaust” Download paper (login required) Tea Rozman-Clark, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia: “Oral History: UN Peacekeepers and Local Population of the UN Safe Area Srebrenica” Download paper (login required) Chair: Kimberly Partee and Kathrin Haurand, Clark UniversityComment: Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen

Panel 8: Perpetrators and “Bystanders” of the Holocaust

Panel 8: Perpetrators and “Bystanders” of the Holocaust Rachel Century, University of London, United Kingdom: "Secretaries, Secrets and Genocide: Evidence from the Post-war Investigations of the Female Secretaries of the RSHA” Download paper (login required) Istvan Pal Adam, Bristol University, United Kingdom: "Bystanders to Genocide? The Role of Building Managers in the Hungarian Holocaust" Download paper (login required) Antonio Munoz, St. John's University: “Murderers in Field Grey: Crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Region of the Army Group South, 1941-1942” Download paper (login required) David Deutsch, Ben-Gurion University, Israel: "Goebbels Close Enemies: Intimacy as an Analytic Tool for the Understanding of Genocidal Rhetoric in Goebbels Diaries" Download paper (login required) Chair:Stefan Ionescu and Hannah Schmidt Hollaender, Clark University Comment: Thomas Kühne, Clark University

Panel 9: Aftereffects and Memory of the Holocaust

Panel 9: Aftereffects and Memory of the Holocaust Stefanie Rauch, University of Leicester, United Kingdom: “British Responses to the Film ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’” Download paper (login required) Emily Stiles, University of Winchester, United Kingdom: "The Evil They Helped to Defeat: Exhibiting the Holocaust in Britain's National Museum of Modern Conflict" Download paper (login required) Kara Critchell, University of Winchester, United Kingdom: “The Heart of Holocaust Education: Holocaust Survivors and the Construction of Holocaust Consciousness in Britain" Download paper (login required) Noemi Staszewski, University of Frankfurt, Germany: "The Drama of Getting Dependent on Assistance in the Shadow of the Shoah: Working Experiences with Old Age Survivors in Germany " Download paper (login required) Chair: Emily Dabney and James Burnham Sedgwick, Clark UniversityComment: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University

Panel 7: Survival Strategies

Panel 7: Survival Strategies Moriya Rachmani, Ben-Gurion University, Israel: “Rituals in Concentration and Extermination Camps and Near Death Situations: Existence, Order, Identity” Download paper (login required) Barbara Hutzelmann, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany: “‘I Didn’t Want to Die.’ Jewish Children’s Strategies of Survival in Slovakia: Chances and Limitations" Download paper (login required) Liviu Carare, The Romanian Academy “George Bariţiu” Institute of History, Cluj-Napoca, Romania: "Jews of Czernowitz (1941-1942): Murder, Ghettoization and Deportation" Download paper (login required) Chair: Alexis Herr and Adara Goldberg, Clark UniversityComment: Johannes Lang, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen

Panel 4: Transnational Memory of Mass Violence

Panel 4: Transnational Memory of Mass Violence Anne Waehrens, University of Copenhagen/Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark: “Is There a Shared European memory? Holocaust Remembrance in the European Parliament after 1989" Download paper (login required) Ran Zwigenberg, City University of New York: “The Hiroshima-Auschwitz Peace March and the Globalization of Victimhood” Download paper (login required) Mark Zaurov, University of Hamburg, Germany: "The Current Situation of Human Rights for Deaf People with Respect to the Deaf Holocaust" Download paper (login required) Chair: Natalya Lazar and Jody Manning, Clark UniversityComment: Ken McLean, Clark University