History

This presentation will explain the new focus on place and space in Holocaust scholarship as seen in studies by the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative. Mapping over 2,200 camps and ghettos reveals the shocking ubiquity of places the Nazis used to terrorize civilians, as well as surprising similarities and differences among those places. Connecting personal accounts to historical maps helps us understand how environmental circumstances influenced victims’ chances of survival, with new appreciation of what distance and proximity meant to people fighting for their lives.

Sponsored by the Bates History Department, Digital and Computational Studies, European Studies, and German and Russian Studies,