Ecologies of the Holocaust 20-KUDU-MA-ECH

Week 1: Introduction: an Ecological Approach to the Holocaust
Boaz Neumann, National socialism, Holocaust, and Ecology, in: The Holocaust and Historical Methodology, D. Stone (ed.), Bergahn Books, New York/Oxford, 2012.
Timothy Snyder, Living space, in his: Black Earth. Holocaust as History and Warning, Duggan Books, New York, p. 11-29.

Week 2: The Notion of Forest in the Ecological Politics of Third Reich
Tim Cole, “The Nature Was Helping Us” Forest, Trees, and the Environmental Histories of the Holocaust, “Environmental History” 19, 2014, p. 665-686.
Weiner Weber, The Forest as a Liminal Space: A Transformation of Culture and Norms during the Holocaust, “Holocaust Studies” 1, 2008, p. 35-60.

Week 3: Camouflaging Crimes: Vegetation Over the Mass Graves
Heinrich May, A Great Lie. National Socialism Unknown to the German Nation, trans. from German by J. Lehmann, in: Ł. Pawlicka-Nowak (ed.) Chełmno Witnesses Speak, trans. by A. Kamiński, K. Krawczyk, The Council for the Protection of Memory of Combat and Martyrdom in Warsaw: The District Museum in Konin, Konin, 2004, 154-162.
Nicholas Terry, Covering Up Chelmno: Nazi Attempts to Obfuscate and Obliterate an Extermination Camp, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust 3, 2018, 188-205.
Shoah, 1985, directed by Claude Lanzmann (selected parts).

Week 4: Topographies of the Holocaust: Non-Sites of Memory and Contaminated Landscapes
Andres Charlesworth, Michael Addis, Memorialization and the Ecological Landscapes of Holocaust Sites: The cases of Plaszow and Auschwitz-Birkenau, “Landscape Research” 3, 2002, p. 229-251.
Roma Sendyka, Prism: Understanding the Non-Sites of Memory, “Teksty Drugie” 2, 2013, p. 323-344.
Jessica, Rapson, Topographies of Suffering. Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford, 2015 (excerpts).

Week 5: Managing Memory, Managing Vegetation
Jessica Rapsson, Fencing In and Weeding Out: Curating Nature at Former Nazi Concentration Camp Sites and Mass Graves in Europe, in: D. Deriu, K. Kamvasinou, E. Schinkle (ed.) Emerging Landscapes. Between Production and Representation, Ashgate, Farnham/Burlington 2014, s. 161-172.
Barbara Zając, Problems with the Maintenance of vegetation on the Museum grounds, in: K. Marszałek (ed.) Preserving for the Future. Material from the International Preservation Conference, Oświęcim, June 23-25, 2003, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim, 2004, p. 57-62.

Week 6: Environmental Memorials of the Genocide: the Holocaust
Jacek Malczynski, Trees as Living Monuments at the Museum-Memorial Site at Bełżec, in: T. Majewski, A. Zeidler-Janiszewska, M. Wójcik (ed.), Memory of the Shoah. Cultural Representations and Commemorative Practices, Officyna, Łódź:, 2010, p. 35-41.
Łukasz Surowiec, Berlin-Birkenau, 7. Berlin Biennale 2012 (documentary)

Week 7: Environmental Memorials of the Genocide: the Holocaust and Beyond
Hiromi Tsuchida, Peter del Tredici, Hibaku trees of Hiroshima, “Arnoldia”, 3, 1993, s. 24-29.
Tree Project Film, 2012, direceted by Hirochi Sunairi (documentary).
Green Legacy Hiroshima, Database of Hibakujumoku, unitar.org/hiroshima/sites.

Week 8: Postmortem Fate of Dead Human Body: Ecology of Decomposition
Ewa Domańska, Post-Holocaust Spaces in an Ecological-Necrological Perspective, “Teksty Drugie” 2, 2017, p. 34-60.

Week 9:Traces of the Holocaust. Methods of Investigation I (ethnographic approach)
Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Anthropology and genocide, in: D. Bloxham, A. Dirk Moses (ed.). The Oxford handbook of genocide studies, Oxford University Press, New York 2010, p. 182-197.

Week 10: Traces of the Holocaust. Methods of Investigation II (forensic approach)
Rachel Cyr, The forensic landscapes of Srebrenica, “Култура/Culture” 5, 2014, p. 81-91.
Caroline Sturdy Colls, Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions, Springer, Staffordshire, 2015 (excerpts).

Week 11: Traces of the Holocaust. Methods of Investigation III (bioarcheological approach)
William J. Turkel, Every place is an archive: Environmental history and the interpretation of physical evidence, “Rethinking History” 2, 2006, p. 259-276.
Caccianiga, Bottacin, Cattaneo, Vegetation dynamics as a tool for detecting clandestine graves, “Journal of Forensic Science” 57, 2012, p. 981-990.
Alan Gunn, Essential Forensic Biology, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2009 (excerpts).

Week 12:Holocaust and the Environmental Ethics
Eric Katz E, Nature’s Healing Power, the Holocaust, and the Environmental Crisis, “Judaism” 181, 1997, p. 79-89.
Eric Katz E, Nature's Presence and the Technology of Death: Reflections on Healing and Domination, “Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society” 1, 1997, p. 3-7.

Week 13: Preserving the Ecological Heritage of the Holocaust
Sharon MacDonald, Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi past in Nurnberg and beyond, Routledge, London 2009 (excerpts).
Rodney Harrison, Beyond “Natural” and “Cultural” Heritage: Toward an Ontological Politics of Heritage in the Age of the Anthropocene, “Heritage & Society” 8, 2015, p. 24-42.

Week 14: Future-Oriented Ecology and the Genocide Prevention
Jacek Malczynski, Ewa Domańska, Mikołaj Smykowski, Environmental History of the Holocaust, „Journal of Genocide Research”, 22, 2020 (online first version).
Richard Hobbs, Lauren Hallet, Paul Ehrlich, Intervention Ecology: Applying Ecological Science in the Twentieth-first Century, “BioScience” 6, 2011, p. 442-450.
Jurgen Zimmerer, Climate change, environmental violence and genocide, “The International Journal of Human Rights” 3, 2014, p.265-280.

Week 15: Conclusion: Ecologies of the Holocaust