Please join Historian Dan Stone in conversation with Professor Sue Vice discussing his book The Holocaust: An Unfinished History.
The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialised and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.
Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust and across the world, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone reveals how the idea of 'industrial murder' is incomplete: many were killed where they lived in the most brutal of ways. He outlines the depth of collaboration across Europe, arguing persuasively that we need to stop thinking of the Holocaust as an exclusively German project. He also considers the nature of trauma the Holocaust engendered, and why Jewish suffering has yet to be fully reckoned with. And he makes clear that the kernel to understanding Nazi thinking and action is genocidal ideology, providing a deep analysis of its origins.
Drawing on decades of research, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. Stone draws on Nazi documents, but also on diaries, post-war testimonies and even fiction, urging that, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia, we must understand the true history of the Holocaust.
Professor Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including most recently: The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin, 2023; paperback 2024), Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (OUP, 2023), and volume 1 of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Holocaust (CUP, 2024), co-edited with Mark Roseman. Dan has recently completed a study of psychoanalysis and Holocaust survival and is now writing a book on the Holocaust in Romania.
Sue Vice is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield where she teaches contemporary literature, film and Holocaust studies. Her latest books are Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance (2021) and the co-edited collection The Politics of Dementia: Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives (2021), with Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff and Nina Schmidt.
