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We the undersigned are scholars of the Holocaust and antisemitism from different institutions. We write to express our dismay and disappointment at political leaders and notable public figures invoking Holocaust memory to explain the current crisis in Gaza and Israel.
Hester Vaizey is lecturer in modern European history and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Her latest book, Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Hester Vaizey is lecturer in modern European history and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Her latest book, Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014.
In so many ways, it seems that the Holocaust is much closer to us, in memory and consciousness, now, so many decades later, than it was then when our parents carried its fresh scars and their children, who came of age in the 1960s, were all about changing the world, heedless of their anxious memories and associations.
Looking at your book choices and having read your own book about East Germany, I’m struck by how traumatic modern German history has been. I guess it makes me all the more impressed by the kind of country that Germany is now. I’ve always loved history for its stories about people—and there are some pretty amazing stories about Germans in the 20th century. So much has happened to Germany.
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