Until now, in the scholarly literature on the development of 'Holocaust consciousness' in the UK, the 1960s has been a missing decade. This book brings together an impressive cast of expert scholars to provide a much-needed corrective to the situation. It ranges widely across disciplines and cultural spheres, as well as the nations and regions of the UK, to reveal that what we now call 'Holocaust consciousness' was decisively created in the UK the 1960s.
Britain and Holocaust Consciousness in the 1960s sheds light remarkably for the first time on British reactions to the 1961 Eichmann Trial. It considers as well the 1964 Dering v Uris libel trial in London, at the heart of which were horrific medical experiments at Auschwitz and which was covered extensively by the British press at the time. The book also covers key sites of Holocaust consciousness such as the Wiener Library and the Columbus Centre, a wealth of British cultural responses to the Holocaust from the period, including memoir literature, cinema, television, art and music, and incorporates vital material on refugees, survivors, gender and religion.
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This collection offers a fascinating insight into the 1960s that has been seen as a pivotal, transitional decade in the emergence of 'Holocaust consciousness' in Britain. The essays evoke the rich complexities of how the Holocaust featured in British life, moving beyond London to reflect on experiences across the British nations. The strength of this collection is not only its geographical range, but also the way it considers diverse genres: archives, theatre, court cases, press reporting, book publishing, television and film, theology and activism to name just a few. * Tim Cole, University of Bristol, UK * What was Holocaust consciousness before we had a term for it? In this pathbreaking volume, a stellar collection of scholars explores what Dan Stone terms an era of 'hinge memory', showing that the 1960s was a critical time for the formation of our contemporary notions, as well as worth studying on its own terms. * Zoe Waxman, University of Oxford, UK *
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An unprecedented examination of a crucial decade in the development of British Holocaust consciousness.
1. Murder for the Masses: The Holocaust in Paperback in the Long
Sixties, Mark Donnelly
2. Kitty Hart-Moxons I Am Alive (1961) and British Holocaust Consciousness,
Sue Vice
3. Every time they start singing about up the chimney, thats my parents
theyre talking about: British Antifascism and Holocaust Memory in the
1960s, Joshua Cohen
4. Refugees, Survivors, Archives: The Wiener Library in 1960s Britain,
Christine Schmidt
5. It will be no bad thing to have the memory refreshed: The Eichmann
Trial, the Press and Frameworks of Understanding, Andy Pearce
6. Auschwitz, Mr Brown and James Bond: The British Press, Holocaust Trials in
the Early 1960s, and the Role of Holocaust Survivors as Witnesses,
Johannes-Dieter Steinert
7. Female Inmate-Physicians of Block 10 at Auschwitz as Witnesses at the
Dering v. Uris Libel Trial: The Testimony of Survival, Dan Stone
8. A Worthy Monument to the Memory of the Six Million: David Astor and the
Psychological Understanding of the Holocaust in the 1960s, Danae Karydaki
9. Idyll and Industry in Wales and Beyond: A Portrait of the Life and Work of
Refugee Artist Heinz Koppel and His Family, Andrea Hammel
10. Echoes of the Holocaust in 1960s Scotland: Commemoration and Continuity
in Glasgows Jewish Echo, Mia Spiro and Cian Pappenheim
11. The Shared Lives and Art of Alice Berger Hammerschlag and Helen Lewis in
Pre-Troubles Northern Ireland, Pamela Linden Aveyard
12. Where are the Gypsies? Gone. The Development of Roma Genocide
Consciousness in 1960s Britain, Becky Taylor and Roxy Moore
13. An Unexpected Feeling of Guilt: Conscience, Trauma and the Rise of
Holocaust Consciousness on British Television in the 1960s, James Jordan
14. Not Five Million Years to Warsaw: Encountering the Alien Holocaust in
1960s British SF-Horror Cinema, Barry Langford
15. A Theology of Auschwitz: British Christians Confront the Holocaust in the
Long 1960s, Andrew Chandler
16. Holocaust Memory and British Jews in the 1960s, David Feldman
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of The Liberation of the Camps to The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (2023).
Johannes-Dieter Steinert is Emeritus Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is the author of Przemyslowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials (with Katarzyna Person; 2022).
