Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2008. / Thesis advisor: Aimee Pozorski. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-109). Abstract available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A. in history)--Washington State University, August 2009. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 10, 2009). "Department of History." Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-95).

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009. / Directed by Glenn Hudak; submitted to the Dept. of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 5, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

<p> An examination of the wartime correspondence of hundreds of Jewish individuals living or interned in France, citizens who denounced or advocated for them, and the response of French officials to these petitions reveals a multifarious discourse regarding who was capable of belonging to the French state. Letters from the camps of France offer an exceptionally rare window into the perceptions and self-conception of the interned as they engaged with friends, family, and colleagues, petitioned officials, demanded the restoration of their legal status, and endeavored to disprove accusations that they constituted a separate and unassimilable group. France experienced an immigration crisis and a period of intense political friction directly prior to the Second World War. These factors stirred anxiety over moral &lsquo;degeneration&rsquo; and a perceived loss of socio-economic control, inspiring exclusionary policy and policing of immigrant and refugee communities. </p><p> This correspondence requested recognition and release, the provision of aid for the interned and their families, and for French and Jewish organizations to explain anti-Jewish measures. Within their letters and entreaties Jews in France consistently confirmed their loyalty and patriotism while decrying the abhorrent nature of the classification, &lsquo;aryanization,&rsquo; arrest, and deportation measures. Within correspondence from the concentration camps traumatic violence, extreme deprivation, and the fervent need to acquire resources for survival (provisions, medicine, news) frequently took precedence. Internees pursued petition as part of their multi-pronged survival strategies. Although it is difficult to gauge intention within such a complex and controlled medium, the sense of shock present in the letters implies authors were often convinced their citizenship, service, or in the perilous case of the &lsquo;<i> juifs &eacute;trangers</i>&rsquo; their motivation to assimilate, held emancipatory power. While officials of the French State rarely responded directly to personal letters, these demands were taken up by leaders of Jewish organizations, the <i>Union g&eacute;n&eacute;rale des Isra&eacute;lites de France</i>, the <i>Consistoire central</i>, aid societies, and delegations of veterans and wives of prisoners, in their meetings with Vichy and <i> Commissariat g&eacute;n&eacute;ral aux questions juives</i> officials. These petitions mobilized familial, friendship, and professional networks in their defense, and give insight into how strategies of adaptation and perceptions of the persecution shifted over time. </p><p> Hundreds of letters of personal correspondence and petition between camp internees and Jewish and French officials from the Drancy, Beaune-la-Rolande, Compi&egrave;gne, and Pithiviers camps are primarily found in <i>Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine</i> collections in Paris, the USHMM camp collections, and Yad Vashem. Dozens of letters written by Jewish and non-Jewish individuals and organizations advocating for the rights of the Jewish community can be found in the Archives <i>Nationales- Commissariat g&eacute;n&eacute;ral aux questions juives</i> collections.</p><p>

We performed quantitative analysis on transcriptions of 784 interviews with Holocaust survivors. The interviews were collected by the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, and the first 15 minutes of each interview had been transcribed using automatic speech recognition. The survivors were an aging population as the interviews were conducted around fifty years after the end of the Holocaust. We used statistical methods and algorithms to analyze the data including keyness analysis, topic modeling, and emotionality analysis. We used the Contemporary Corpus of American English (COCA) as a comparative corpus for these analyses. Overall, we found that survivors prioritized themes of the Holocaust and their families in the interviews. Specific words and themes reoccurred across the corpus demonstrating a collective and consistent memory of trauma. Our emotionality analyses revealed that survivors used slightly more positive language and fewer words relating to anger, disgust, and fear than the speakers in our comparative corpus. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc) / For this thesis, we analyzed 784 transcribed interviews with Holocaust survivors. The interviews were conducted by the Shoah Foundation and took place from 1994-2000; around 50 years after the end of World War II. We compared the language in the interviews to the spoken component of a large corpus (collection of texts) called The Contemporary Corpus of American English (COCA). In our analyses, we found the words that are most representative of the survivors' language across the corpus. We also found topics that were discussed most frequently in the interviews. Words and topics relating to family, Judaism, and experiences of the Holocaust were the most common. We also analyzed the emotionality of the survivors' language and found that overall, they used slightly more positive words than the words in COCA. They also used fewer words associated with the emotions anger, fear, and disgust.

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This research documentation explores representations of the Holocaust in the visual arts in relation to the post-Holocaust ??ripple effect????the impact of the Holocaust on the world today, in both the wider arena of global political conflicts and in the lives of individuals. In the following chapters, I address the complex ethical and political aspects of representations of the Holocaust in the context of the evolution of Holocaust awareness and memorialisation. I also investigate recent developments in art and theory that challenge prevailing conventions governing Holocaust representation, especially how the relationship between the perceived political exploitation of the Holocaust and the intergenerational effects of Holocaust trauma is addressed. Given these are sensitive and contentious issues I discuss my studio work in terms of how trauma affects the political rather than as an overt polemically/politically motivated art. I examine my attempts to bypass controversy (maintaining respect for victims and survivors), yet maintain engagement with these issues in my art. In doing this I aim to liberate both my art and the viewer from habits of perception in regard to the subject. From this principle I propose a ??strategic?? form of self-censorship that paradoxically gives me the freedom to do this. This strategy enables me to create an art of ambiguity, which exists in an amoral zone. The art evokes reflective thought, uncertainty and ambivalence, where references to the Holocaust or political content are often not explicit, leaving room for lateral and open readings. My work, which incorporates interdisciplinary methods, is often based on photographs from a variety of sources. I also create three dimensional constructions. The sourced images and the constructions are disguised, decontextualised, cropped, erased or digitally altered, and also experiment with optical illusion. Through transformative processes these images are changed into drawings, paintings, photographs. This research documentation acknowledges the gap between the gravitas of the subject with its ethical and geo-political complexities and my idiosyncratic, subjective, introverted approach to making art. I conclude that there is potential in the exploration of an ??anxiety of representation?? in relation to the Holocaust in the contemporary context.

Der israelische Autor und Journalist Noah Klieger ist in der deutschsprachigen Forschung zur Holocaustliteratur, in deren Kontext theoretische Konzepte und Interpretationen zahlreicher Autoren (u.a. Ruth Klüger, Primo Levi) dieser Gattung vorliegen, bisher kaum beachtet worden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit steht seine 2010 erschienene Autobiographie „Zwölf Brötchen zum Frühstück“ im Zentrum. Innerhalb der Textanalyse wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Bedeutung das Schreiben für Klieger hat und inwieweit seine als Reportage angelegte Autobiographie, die den sehr faktenbezogenen und dokumentarischen Stil des Journalisten widerspiegelt, den Rezipienten in der Interpretation lenkt und Authentizität erzeugt. Ausgehend von dieser Fragestellung werden für die Arbeit geführte Interviews mit Noah Klieger (oral history) einbezogen und der Erlebnisbericht „Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt“ von Eva Mozes-Kor, die das Konzept des Erlebnisberichtes mit all seinen Eigenschaften konstant bewahrt, zum Vergleich hinzugezogen. Im Fokus der Arbeit steht die Analyse der Autobiographie Kliegers, wobei auf das Genre Reportage, relevante Stilmittel, zentrale Begrifflichkeiten und Veröffentlichungskontexte sowie auf die Gedächtnistheorie von Maurice Halbwachs eingegangen werden. Abschließend wird die Thematik des Vergebens bei Klieger und Mozes-Kor erörtert. Die Forschungsergebnisse stellen den israelischen Holocaustüberlebenden Noah Klieger als Autor vor und verdeutlichen, dass die innerhalb der Gattung Holocaustliteratur gewählten Darstellungsweisen unterschiedliche Formen von Authentizität evozieren. / Israeli author and journalist Noah Klieger has been ignored by German scientists of Holocaust literature though there are many theoretical concepts and interpretations of other writers such as Ruth Klüger and Primo Levi. In this paper we will focus on his autobiography published in 2010 named “Zwölf Brötchen zum Frühstück”. In the text analysis we will discuss what the act of writing means to Klieger and to what extent his autobiography reflects relation to facts, documentary pen and influences recipients. In accordance with this leading question we will integrate interviews with Noah Klieger (oral history) and a report from Eva Mozes-Kor titled “Ich habe den Todesengel überlebt”. This report constantly maintains the characteristics of a report. The centre of attention is the analysis of Noah Klieger’s autobiography, the characteristics of a report, rhetorical devices, defining key terminology, the context of publishing as well as Maurice Halbwach’s memory research theories. Finally, we discuss forgiving based on texts by Klieger and Mozes-Kor is discussed. The results of the research introduce Israeli holocaust survivor Noah Klieger as an author and clarify that within holocaust literature the different forms of expression evoke many different facets of authenticity.