“Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.”
-- Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
Holocaust and Genocide Studies Journal
04.01.2016
The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies has published a special edition on refugees, featuring selected articles from past issues.
The journal is co-published by Oxford University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and is free to read online here.
As historian Richard Breitman notes in his introduction to this collection of articles: “People frequently ask whether the study of history can help in managing humanitarian crises. This question is particularly timely given the massive outflow of refugees from Syria and the problems of admitting large numbers of refugees to other countries, including the United States.... Those who speak confidently of a single lesson of the past often mislead their audiences.”
The major forum for scholarship on the Holocaust and other genocides, Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an international journal featuring research articles, interpretive essays, and book reviews in the social sciences and humanities. It is the principal publication to address the issue of how insights into the Holocaust apply to other genocides.
Photo: A group of children in the Foehrenwald Displaced Persons' Camp, Germany. Yad Vashem.