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Not yet published:
Michael Shafir, Competitive Martyrdom [working title].
Draft manuscript of the book circulated to colleagues (for comments and criticism) before the author’s sudden death in 2022. See Defending History’s Michael Shafir section. It is hoped that Professor Shafir’s heirs will enable rapid publication of this major and indispensable work in the field.
2025
Saulius Sužiedėlis,
Reactions, reviews, and citations:
[coming soon] Roland Binet: Autopsy of the Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. Or: How to Subtly Rewrite History
Clemens Heni: Mit Kojak gegen die Rot=Braun-Ideologie
2024
Chris Heath, No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust
Review by Roland Binet.
2023
Paul Srodecki and Daria Kozlova (eds), War and Remembrance. World War II and the Holocaust in the Memory Politics of Post-Socialist Europe
Twelve papers in three sections: “Conceptual Frameworks”, “State Memory Narratives and their Public Perception” and “Museums, Memorials and Monuments as Controversial Objects of Cultural Memory”. Brill | Schöningh. Publisher’s page. Prelims.
Defending History’s comment: “One of the rare academic collections on the subject whose contributors are generally truly independent, in sharp distinction to volumes featuring academics whose state-sponsored jobs, financing, medals, honors and junkets lead them to serve as de facto state history policy surrogates. This volume is a must-read for the reader desiring to keep abreast with the latest scholarly work in the bona fide investigation of massive state investment in the revision of history.”
NEW WORK OF FICTION:
Naomi Ragen, The Enemy Beside Me
29 November 2023 event in New York City with Dr. Efraim Zuroff featuring extracts from the documentary film J’Accuse!
2021
Silvia Foti, The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered my Grandfather was a War Criminal
reissued under the title: Storm in the Land of Rain: A Mother’s Dying Wish Becomes Her Daughter’s Nightmare (2022)
Defending History’s updates & notes.
Arūnas Bubnys, The Holocaust in the Lithuanian Provinces
Review by Evaldas Balčiūnas.
Christoph Dieckmann & Ruta Vanagaite: How Did It Happen? Understanding the Holocaust in Lithuania)
Book launch for Lithuanian edition in Vilnius on 25 June 2020 (LJC video). DH opinion piece on background. Reviews by Silvia Foti (Times of Israel), Aušra Maldeikienė (Literaturairmenas.lt); Linas Vildžiūnas (Lrt.lt; 7md.lt).
Question for readers and scholars: Does the Dieckmann/Vanagaite volume have the same perspective as Vanagaite/Zuroff on the outbreak of the Lithuanian Holocaust and the murder of thousands before the arrival and/or setting up of authority by invading German forces in the last week of June 1941?
2020
Ruta Vanagaite & Efraim Zuroff, Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust
Michael Berenbaum’s review in JJ. Linas Vildžiūnas’s review in 7md. Neville Teller’s in JP. See in Defending History: Ruta Vanagaite section. Efraim Zuroff section.
2020
Leyb Koniuchowsky & Jonathan Boyarin, The Lithuanian Slaughter of its Jews: Testimonies of 121 Survivors of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Also posted free online (temporarily?). Volume 2.
On history and role of Koniuchowsky’s collection, see now Efraim Zuroff’s 25 Jan. 2021 op-ed in Times of Israel.
2019
Dan Rabinowitz, The Lost Library
Allan Nadler’s review.
Alexander Gendler: Khurbm: 1914-1922
2018
Alex J. Kay & David Stahel (eds), Mass Violence in Nazi Occupied Europe
Mark Montesclaros’s review in H-Net. Katrin Praehler’s in European History Quarterly.
Dovid Katz’s paper in the volume (“The Baltic Movement to Obfuscate the Holocaust”).
2016
Timothy Snyder, Black Earth
Reviews and discussions.
2014
Georges Mink and Laure Neumayer (eds), History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Memory Games
Review by Dovid Katz.
2013
Clemens Heni, Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon
Review by Edward Alexander.
John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic (eds), Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe
Review by Michael Shafir.
Arūnas Bubnys, Vilnius Ghetto 1941-1943
Review by Dovid Katz.
2012
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Intermarium: The Land between the Black and the Baltic Seas
Review by Dovid Katz.
Ellen Cassedy, We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust
Reviews by Dovid Katz; Allan Nadler; Olga Zabludoff; Efraim Zuroff. London book launch is confronted with a peaceful protest.
Laima Vince, Journey into the Backwaters of the Heart: Stories of Women Who Survived Hitler and Stalin
Reviews by Peter Jukes and Geoff Vasil.
2010
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin
Reviews and discussions. Review by Dovid Katz.
Alexander V. Prusin, The Lands Between: Conflict in the East European Borderlands, 1870–1992
Review by Dovid Katz.
Sofi Oksanen, Purge
Review by Leena Hietanen.
1996
Andrew Ezergailis, The Holocaust in Latvia
Review by Roland Binet.