Mapping the Holocaust

This special issue on Mapping the Holocaust: Traditional and Emergent Methodologies aligns with recent shifts in Holocaust studies historiography that explore more innovative and unusual approaches to mapping, including mapping materiality, emotions, and ideas. The result of a workshop held at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) in London in May 2024, the four papers in this issue take stock of the state of the field regarding the use of mapping in Holocaust research and showcase new approaches. They reveal how nontraditional approaches to mapping broaden our definitions and can provide a deeper spatial, temporal, and intersectional understanding to any aspect of Holocaust studies. As the world becomes increasingly globalized and connected, researchers are becoming ever more aware of the interactions and interrelations between objects, spaces, locations, and time. This special issue draws attention to these links and their impact on the history and memory of the Holocaust. Taken together, these articles provide a reinvigorated approach to mapping that offers both a new lens with which to view existing work and new avenues to engage with previously underexplored areas. They push us to consider the deeper spatial, temporal, and intersectional aspects of our understanding of the past and its memory. As a result, this research reveals how we can take mapping beyond the cartographic to understand how we can map objects, people, and ideas as they move across time and space

Context (archaeology) · Field (mathematics) · Identification (biology) · Process (computing) · Set (abstract data type) · European history and politics · German History and Society · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration