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Table of Contents
Foreword by Piotr M. A. Cywiński
Introduction by Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
I
Yehuda Bauer: Holocaust Research – A Personal Statement
John K. Roth: Gray Zones: e Holocaust and the Failure(s) of Ethics
Ian Kershaw: Working on the Holocaust
John T. Pawlikowski: e Challenge of the Holocaust for
a Christian eologian
Zdzisław Mach: Poland’s National Memory of the Holocaust
and Its Identity in an Expanded Europe
II
Michael R. Marrus: Holocaust Research and Scholarship Today
Charles S. Maier: Holocaust Fatigue
Omer Bartov: My Twisted Way to Buczacz
Shimon Redlich: Some Remarks on the Holocaust by a Marginal Historian
Dan Michman: e Challenge of Studying the Shoah as Jewish History
Some Personal Reflections
Maria Orwid, Krzysztof Szwajca: Reflections on the Holocaust
from a Psychiatric Perspective
Jonathan Webber: Auschwitz: Whose History, Whose Memory?
Nechama Tec: My Personal and Professional Journey to Holocaust Research
Dalia Ofer: My View rough eir Lens: e Personal and Collective
in Writing about the Holocaust
Feliks Tych: A Witness and His Path to Research
Debórah Dwork: e Challenges of Holocaust Scholarship
A Personal Statement
Robert Jan van Pelt: Salvage
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105
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121
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Michael Berenbaum: My Way to the Holocaust
Stanisław Krajewski: Speaking About the Holocaust in Today’s Poland
Moshe Zimmermann: e Holocaust of the German Jews
Wolfgang Benz: Expulsion, “Ethnic Cleansing,” Genocide
Jan Woleński: Executioners, Victims and Bystanders
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III
Eleonora Bergman: Questions in the Polish Landscape
Elie Wiesel: Lift Your Eyes and Look at the Sky
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About the Authors
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