The Gray Zone: How Jews Navigated Forced Cooperation with Nazi Rule featuring Laura Jockusch

Besides victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, collaborators are one of the major categories of analysis in the study of the Holocaust. What did collaboration mean for Jews? What made Jews in East and West cooperate with the Nazis? In this lecture, Laura Jockusch addresses this question by exploring the morally thorny issue of collaboration and how it was adjudicated after the war.

Jockusch is the Albert Abramson Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. Among her many scholarly publications, her book “Collect and Record!” (Oxford University Press, 2012), a study on the beginnings of Holocaust research by Jews and from a Jewish perspective, stands out. Her ongoing research project investigates how Jews conceptualized legal redress after the unprecedented crime of the Nazi genocide of European Jews.

• 2025-01-16

• Jockusch, Laura

With Support from Thurgood Marshall College

Jockusch, Laura. Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe. Oxford University Press, 2012

• Europe
• Germany (West)

• Forced cooperation
• History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Jewish councils (Judenrat)
• Jewish honor courts
• Jews
• Wartime collaboration
• World War, 1939-1945

• video

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