Holocaust Letters

Foreword Joachim Schl¶r (University of Southampton, UK)
Editorsâ Introduction
1. Letters as Sources in Holocaust Studies Maria Ferenc (Jewish Historical Institute, Poland) and Shirli Gilbert (UCL, UK)
Part 1 - Methodological Considerations
2. Refugee Letters: Methodological considerations Hannah Holtschneider (University of Edinburgh, UK)
3. âFlat objectsâ: Letters, material culture and embodied family history Christine Schmidt (The Wiener Holocaust Library, UK)
4. âI no longer have the strength to think and yetâ: Paul L©onâs letters from Drancy and Compi¨gne Xander Ryan (University of Reading, UK)
5. Emotions as Societal Seismographs in the Letters of Heinrich and Annemarie Brenzinger Sandra Lipner (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
6. Analysing the Role of the Narrator in Private Correspondences: War experiences narrated as spaces Sophie Bayer Blears (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Part 2 - Letters in Holocaust Research
7. The Experience of Jewish Motherhood in Drancy Clara Dijkstra (University of Cambridge, UK)
8. The Piano, Lectures, and Business: Reflections of ordinary life and persecution in Hungarian labour service letters Barnabas Balint (University of Oxford, UK)
9. To the Letter? The correspondence of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and Anglo-Jewish Relief in North Africa and Europe, 1943-1945 Roxy Moore (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
10. âMy dearest Stellaâ: Witnessing the aftermath of the Holocaust in the letters of a British relief worker Rob Thompson (UCL, UK)
Part 3 - Reflections on the Source
11. Reading the Letter: Reflections on the researcherâs journey Charlie Knight (University of Southampton, UK)
12. The Exhibition âHolocaust Lettersâ at The Wiener Holocaust Library Sandra Lipner (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) and Christine Schmidt (The Wiener Holocaust Library, UK)
13. Never Together Again: Reconstructing a narrative Deborah Jaff© (Independent Scholar, UK) and Ricarda Vidal (Kings College London, UK)
Part 4 - Letters in the Spotlight
14. Dispatch from an Aryanised Business: Otto Poetsch writes to Leo Anker, Danzig, 31 August 1939 Joseph Cronin (Leo Baeck Institute London, UK)
15. Briefaktion letters from Auschwitz-Birkenau Jennifer Putnam (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
16. âShe must have signed it in that yellow-star-worldâ: Mrs. rp¡d Seresâs restitution letter Borb¡la Klacsmann (University College Dublin, Ireland)
17. âLeb wohl, mein Lieberâ: Examining familial dynamics in exile through the everydayness of the migrant love letter Elizabeth Lamle (University of Birmingham, UK)
Bibliography
Index