Description: A multi-contributor volume which explores contemporary approaches and research when using letters for interdisciplinary work in Holocaust Studies.
Brief description: Christine Schmidt is Deputy Director and Head of Research at The Wiener Holocaust Library, UK. She is the co-editor, with Suzanne Bardgett and Dan Stone, of Beyond Camps and Forced Labour (2021).
Review Quotes:
"Provid[es] a comprehensive guide to available sources all over the world [... and] demonstrate[s] the great value of small things - details, asides, feelings, memories - in helping us to understand the wider world." --Times Literary Supplement
"This book provides a fascinating deep dive into Holocaust letters both as texts and material objects. The letters, which are all too often the last words of the Jewish victims, reveal how people were able to make sense of their suffering. The essays in this volume open up valuable new perspectives about the Holocaust." --Zoë Waxman, Professor of Holocaust History, University of Oxford, UK "This innovative and engaging volume offers fresh insights into key issues in Holocaust research. Synthesizing a field that has only begun to develop systematically in the past decade or two, the articles present original approaches to core methodological questions regarding the use of letters, promising to advance the field in the years ahead." --Guy Miron, Professor, Open University of Israel, Israel