First IHRA Publication: Killing Sites

More than 2,000,000 Jews were killed by shooting during the Holocaust in several thousand mass killing sites throughout Europe and yet these killing sites remain relatively unknown. The new publication issued by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) aims to raise awareness of this centrally important aspect of the Holocaust by bringing together organizations and individuals dealing with the subject.

The full version of the publication can be downloaded free of charge on the IHRA website and an ebook version will be available on the IHRA website soon.

This publication, the first relatively comprehensive and up-to-date anthology, reflects both research and fieldwork on killing sites. The publication was coordinated by the Multi-Year Work Plan Steering Committee on Killing Sites and follows a very successful academic conference on killing sites held in Krakow, Poland on 22-23 January 2014.  

2014 IHRA Chair Sir Andrew Burns, UK Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues said ““In many cases, victims of the Holocaust died not in camps and gas chambers but in the towns and cities where they lived. Entire communities were annihilated within view of their neighbours. This publication puts a spotlight on these killing sites, many of which remain unmarked to this day. In this publication, IHRA has brought together an impressive range of organisations, scholars and academics to examine complex national and religious legal issues, the use of forensic archaeology, and regional efforts to integrate killing sites into educational curricula to name but a few aspects.”

The publication was made possible through the work of the IHRA Multi-Year Work Plan Steering Committee on Killing Sites, particularly Dr. Juliane Wetzel (Germany),  Dr. Piotr Trojanski (Poland),  Dr. Thomas Lutz (Germany), and Dr. David Silberklang (Israel) and with the support of Dr. Miriam Bistrovic.

For more information about IHRA’s Killing Sites project under the Multi-Year Work Plan initiative, please click here.

Publication Details:

Killing Sites. Research and Remembrance.
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Ed.)
IHRA series, vol. 1
Metropol Verlag 2015
ISBN: 978-3-86331-233-6

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