Holocaust Archaeologies
Approaches and Future Directions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12727332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert M Ehrenreich (0000-0001-8361-2843, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 481-483 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust and Genocide Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7937 • E-ISSN: 8756-6583 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hgs/dcv050 |
| OpenAlex | W2239754592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Holocaust studies was initially the purview of historians, who, poring over millions of pages of German documentation, were the first to try to reach a broader understanding of how and why the Holocaust occurred. The Holocaust is far too complex an atrocity for one discipline to comprehend, however, and successive areas of study have entered the field: literature, psychology, sociology, Jewish studies, and geography, to name just a few. What tends to be forgotten is that archaeology has been involved since the immediate postwar period. As Caroline Sturdy Colls notes in her impressive new volume, the roots of forensic archaeology are traceable to the collection of evidence—from thousands of mass graves—for use in post-Holocaust trials (p. 29). The legalistic intent of this fieldwork limited the contextual data recovered, however, and thus archaeology's initial impact on the field. Archaeology has much to add to Holocaust studies. Sturdy Colls makes clear that, as a spatial and temporal field, archaeology reveals how sites were founded, developed, and abandoned or destroyed; how they were internally organized and operated; and how they were connected to other sites and organizations. Archaeological research also yields evidence related to perpetrators’ and victims’ behavior, actions, and reactions—including victims’ acts of resistance—and provides clues to the ways in which sites were subsequently memorialized, forgotten, looted, or concealed within the local, regional, national, or international Holocaust memoryscape
Geography · Political science · Sociology · The Holocaust · Archaeological Research and Protection · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |