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Remembering the Holocaust: Reflections on Genocide and Human Tragedy

Delve into the sociology of the Holocaust through a critical examination of its naming, the industrialized murder, resistance, and the role of victims. Explore the complex dynamics of antisemitism, indifference, and the power of remembrance. Reflect on the lasting impact of this radical evil, urging us to confront the politics of remembering and the dangers of denial.

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Remembering the Holocaust: Reflections on Genocide and Human Tragedy

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  1. Sociology of the Holocaust • Robert Fine 2009 • Some early questions

  2. What’s in a name? On naming the Holocaust / the Final Solution / the Shoah / totalitarian terror / crimes against humanity / genocide / radical evil

  3. What’s new? • On industrialised murder

  4. What’s singular? • On total domination

  5. What’s wrong? • On punishing the perpetrators

  6. How could you do it? • On monstrous deeds and ordinary men

  7. Why the Jews? • On antisemitism

  8. Who decided? • On structure and agency

  9. Who resisted? • On the role of victims

  10. Who looked on? • Indifference, difference and the bystander • First they came for the communists, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a communist.Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a socialist.Then they came for the labor leaders, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a labor leader.Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak outbecause I was not a Jew.Then they came for me, and there was no oneleft to speak out for me. • --The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church who spent seven years in a concentration camp.

  11. How does one remember? • On memoir, testimony and fiction

  12. What can you see? • On the role of museums

  13. What don’t you see ?

  14. What now? • On the politics of remembering, forgetting and denial

  15. Jews as Perpetrators?

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