The End of the Holocaust

Index

Index 299 The Abandonment of the Jews (Wyman), 92 Abortion: The Silent Holocaust (Powell), 36 abortion activism, 36, 37, 58–59, 150 The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses (Gerstenfeld), 239 accessibility of the Holocaust, 2, 11, 53, 60–61 Agha, Yusuf, 157 Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 276–77 AIDS, 150 Akbar, Na’im, 36 Al Qaeda, 274–75 Alexander, Edward, 38 Alexander, Jeffrey, 249, 250, 251 Allied bombing victims, 6, 56 Altruistic Personality Project, 86–87 “An American Holocaust” (Brodsky), 45–47, 50 American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World (Stannard ), 36 American Jewish Committee, 51, 285n39 Americanization of the Holocaust, 51–94; and accessibility of the Holocaust, 60–61; affirmative/redemptive emphasis in, 60, 62–63, 80, 85–86, 93–94; and Anne Frank, 61–62, 119; “balanced” narrative of the Holocaust, 85–94; democratic ideals of, 60, 64, 65; and educators, 93; film portrayal of the Holocaust, 78–82; and the Holocaust Memorial Museum, 59, 62–68; and index “Holocaust” term, 57–59; and universalization trend, 59–61, 67 Amerongen-Frankfoorder, Rachel van, 142, 145–46 Améry, Jean, 163–84; on antisemitism, 173–74; authorial doubt expressed by, 213; birth of, 168; damages sustained by, 216–17; despondency of, 174–76, 181, 268–69; on effects of time, 272; on Germany’s postwar attitudes, 173–74, 178–82; on historical entropy, 12–13; incarceration of, 169, 176; Kertész on, 232; on long-term effects of deprivations , 171; on misuses of the past, 272; national reception of, 221–22; on Nazi Germany, 175, 178–79, 181, 183; on normalization of Nazi past, 181, 183; ongoing nature of the Holocaust for, 176, 184; on postwar life, 237; on Primo Levi, 189; resentments of, 172, 176–80, 181–82, 183; secular-Jewish identity of, 216, 217, 218; on suffering, 178; suicide of, 176, 184, 185–87, 190, 191; tattoo from Auschwitz of, 163; on torture, 170–71, 176, 186, 190, 218–19; writing of, 182, 220 Anderson, Walter Truett, 271–72 Anne Frank: Spur Eine Kindes (Schnabel ), 116–17 Anne Frank Center USA, 159 Anne Frank Foundation (Amsterdam), 98, 114, 159 Anne Frank House, 109, 114, 140–42, 151 “Anne Frank in the World: 1929–1945” (exhibit), 159 300 index Bauman, Zygmunt, 259–60 Becker, Israel, 136 believability/unbelievability of Holocaust stories, 189 Beloved (Morrison), 36 Benz, Wolfgang, 283n6 Berenbaum, Michael, 66–67 Bergen-Belsen camp, 21–22, 44, 117–18, 120 Berman, Paul, 275 Bernstein, Michael André, 85 Bettelheim, Bruno, 129–30, 134–35 Birstein, Anne, 104, 117 Bitburg affair, 16–25; and Anne Frank, 21–22, 117–18; and changes in the Holocaust narrative, 31; Elie Wiesel on, 23, 24, 79; Primo Levi on, 198 black population, 36, 49, 248 Bloomgarden, Kermit, 133 Boomerang, 152–53 Borowski, Tadeusz, 187, 232, 237 Bosnia, 66 Bowman, James, 82 Braun, Eva, 28 Broder, Henryk, 278 Brodsky, Louis Daniel, 45–47, 49–50 Brooks, Mel, 26 Buchenwald camp, 231, 233–34 bystanders, 4–5, 6, 93 Cambodian genocide, 33, 259 Camus, Albert, 229–30 capitalism, 242 Carter, Jimmy, 58 The Castle in the Forest (Mailer), 26 casualties, German, 56 Catholics, 138, 240–41 Celan, Paul, 187, 232, 235, 237 Central Park, New York City, 35 changing image of the Holocaust, 14, 15–16 Chicago, Judy (née Gerowitz), 69–75, 93 child victims, 95. See also Frank, Anne “A Child’s Voice” (Romein), 100 Christians, 5, 89–90, 221 The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto (Dobroszycki, ed.), 166 Churchill, Ward, 257, 258, 259, 260 Clinton, Bill, 82 Cochran, Johnnie L., 35–36 Anne Frank Institute, 97 “The Anne Frank Series” (art exhibit), 97 Anne Frank Village, 120 Anne Frank Youth Award, 97 anonymity of the Holocaust, 143–44 Anti-Defamation League, 243 apologists, 20, 26, 29 Appelfeld, Aharon, 91 Arab countries, 261 Arab European League, 153 Arendt, Hannah, 129, 130, 131, 135 Armenians, 33, 259 art, portrayal of history in, 2 “Art and Culture after the Holocaust” (Wiesel), 214 Arunde, 201–202 Association of Holocaust Organizations 2010 Directory, 9 At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (Améry), 168, 169–72, 175, 176–77, 182–83, 189 attenuation of the Holocaust in history, 25, 268 Auschwitz camp: and American values, 60; and Anne Frank, 22; antisemitic desires to recreate, 237; appropriation of, as metaphor, 33, 34; calls to “end Auschwitz,” 260–61, 270; Christian symbology at, 55–56; and denial of the Holocaust, 242; depicted in fiction , 233–34, 236; and...