The Palgrave handbook of Britain and the Holocaust / Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce, editors

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe?s Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in the 1930s, through formal react...

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Main Authors:	Lawson, Tom (Creator)
Other Authors:	Pearce, Andy (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, British Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion
Contents/pieces:	13 records

1. The agenda of British Refugee Policy, 1933-1948

2. Campaigning for justice : anti-fascist campaigners, Nazi-era collaborator war criminals and Britain's failure to prosecute, 1945-1999

3. 'Where, exactly, is Auschwitz?' : British confrontation with the Holocaust through the medium of the 1945 'Belsen' trial

4. The unlikely tale of a hero named coward : uncomfortable truths and the necessary war

5. The legacy of the Holocaust, Jewish history and British antisemitism : the 'Jew Murderer' and the murder of the Jews

6. 'I belong here. I know I ought never to have come back, because it has proved I've never been away' : Kitty Hart-Moxon's documentaries of return

7. Beyond the cesspit beneath : the BBC and the Holocaust

8. Belsen and the British

9. 'I remember their labels round their necks' : Britain and the Kindertransport

10. Knowledge in Britain of the Holocaust during the Second Wold War

11. Selective histories : Britain, the empire and the Holocaust

12. British cinema and the Holocaust

13. The immigration and reception of Jewish refugees from the Third Reich

The Palgrave handbook of Britain and the Holocaust / Tom Lawson and Andy Pearce, editors

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