The Auschwitz Foundation and Remembrance of Auschwitz publish their journal (which has existed for 25 years) twice a year. It thus disseminates current multidisciplinary research on the Nazi camps and the genocide of the Jews and Roma. It has been able to open the door to the most current debates on issues of memory and history.

In view of the growing interest in memorial issues, at the crossroads of many disciplines, from history to literature and the arts, from sociology to political science, and in view of the equally growing demand from the public, when issue No. 100 was due for publication, we decided to revamp our journal. The aim is to make up for the absence of a publication that deals with both questions of memory and questions of history without pitting one against the other.

 

Without abandoning their original mission, and with the experience and knowledge they have acquired, the Auschwitz Foundation and Remembrance of Auschwitz are now taking on the task of opening up their field of research to the problems of mass violence in the long historical term.

Avoiding any anachronism, they propose to critically revisit both the past and the present of our modernity and of a century during which wars, large-scale political violence and massacres – from genocides to ethnic cleansing – in which the responsibility of States was directly or indirectly involved.

Through Testimony: Between History and Memory, their aim is to boost the movement of a critical re-reading of these issues from both a historiographical and memorial point of view. They offer a new insight into our contemporary history.

The new format of our journal Testimony: Between History and Memory was introduced with issue 117. Half is taken up by an academic section (thematic dossier and varia) and half by a cultural section dealing with current cultural issues of memory and testimony. It consists of a logbook, sections, and a portfolio.

Just published: no. 138 (April 2024): Trials

 

This dossier will deal with trials that have provided a legal answer to a demand for justice. Several cases will be addressed ranging from Istanbul and the Nuremberg Doctors' trial to the German policemen of the Brussels Jewish section and the gacaca trials in Rwanda.

Table of contents (Dutch version)

Table of contents (French version)

Previously published: no. 137 (October 2023): Children's Literature in Light of the Holocaust: Impossible Transfer?

 

In France and Belgium, research into the relationship between children's literature and the Holocaust is rare, in contrast to the phenomenal attention in America (everyone knows Art Spiegelman's Maus) and in other English-speaking countries. Yet children's books depicting the Holocaust in words and pictures have been steadily gaining ground in post-war France and Belgium. While literary criticism and research still seem to be in their infancy, this dossier will show that critical analysis of this corpus is highly relevant for the future.

Table of contents (Dutch version)

Table of contents (French version)

Contacts:

Auschwitz Foundation and Remembrance of Auschwitz
Phone: +32 (0)2 512 79 98

Publication Director: Henri Goldberg

Editor-in-Chief: Frédéric Crahay

Editorial Secretaries: Fabian Van Samang (journal in Dutch and English) and Nathalie Peeters (journal in French and English)

 

Editorial Board:

Daniel Acke, Pascale Fabre, Agnès Graceffa, Johan Puttemans, Maarten Van Alstein, Yannik van Praag and Guy Zelis.

 

Scientific Committee:

Thomas Baum (Belgium), Marnix Beyen (Belgium), Christophe Busch (Belgium), Sonia Combe (France), Bernard Dan (Belgium), Emmanuelle Danblon (Belgium), Wim De Vos (Belgium), Fransiska Louwagie (Belgium), Carlo Saletti (Italy), Frediano Sessi (Italy).