Table of contents : Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Intorduction PART I Writing Atrocity CHAPTER 1 Historical Uniqueness and Integrated History CHAPTER 2 Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide PART II Local History CHAPTER 3 Reconstructing Genocide on the Local Level CHAPTER 4 Testimonies as Historical Documents PART III Justice and Denial CHAPTER 5 The Holocaust in the Courtroom CHAPTER 6 Memory Laws as a Tool of Forgetting PART IV First-Person Histories CHAPTER 7 H. G. Adler’s (Un)Bildungsroman CHAPTER 8 Leaving the Shtetl to Change the World PART V When Memory Comes CHAPTER 9 Return and Displacement in Israel-Palestine CHAPTER 10 My Twisted Path to Auschwitz, and Back CHAPTER 11 Building the Future by Telling the Past Notes Select Bibliography Index