Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust

Sara J. Brenneis is a professor of Spanish at Amherst College in Massachusetts.Gina Herrmann is the Norman H. Brown associate professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.

"The breadth and variety of this collection is as impressive as the authors’ respect for the complexity of the stories they tell." - Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College (The Volunteer) "This collection of essays constitutes the interdisciplinary nature of what is an essential reference book for Spain’s different roles during the war."- Sean Sheehan (The Prisma) "This comprehensive work provides much needed insights into Spain’s policies during World War II and the plight of Jews and refugees in wartime Spain." - Harvey Strum, Russell Sage College (The NYMAS Review)

• Introduction Sara J. Brenneis and Gina HerrmannPrologue: Jews and Spaniards at Meeting Points of their Histories during the Nazi Era Haim Avni I. Legacies of Antisemitism in Spain1. Hero and Monster: The Place of Jews in Spain’s National Identity Raanan Rein and Martina L. Weisz2. Antisemitism and Philosephardism in Spain, 1880–1945 Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida II. Spain and the Fates of Jewish Communities3. Spain and the Jews during the Holocaust Jacobo Israel Garzón 4. The Franco Regime and the Jews of North Africa during World War II Isabelle Rohr 5. Spain: Refuge of Jews fleeing Nazism during World War II Josep Calvet 6. Routes of the Renowned and the Nameless: Clandestine Border-Crossing at the Pyrenees, 1939–1945Tabea Alexa Linhard 7. Spanish Jews in Bergen-Belsen Camp, 1943–1944Maria Fragkou 8. Beyond Duty: The Spanish Foreign Service’s Humanitarian Response to the Holocaust José Antonio LisbonaIII. Spanish Exiles in France9. Spanish Republicans Exiled in France during the Second World War: War and ResistanceGeneviève Dreyfus-Armand 10. From Internees to Liberators: Spanish Republican Exiles in France, 1939–1945 Robert Coale 11. The Stateless Monument: Memory of the Spanish Republicans Murdered in Mauthausen Juan M. Calvo GascónIV. Spanish Republicans in Nazi Camps12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück Gina Herrmann 13. Between Compiègne and Neuengamme: Testimony and Trauma of Spanish Prisoners in German Concentration Camps Andrea Hepworth14. Spain’s Mauthausen: Narratives of the Nazi Deportation of Spanish Republicans, 1946–2015 Sara J. Brenneis15. Joaquim Amat-Piniella’s Novel K.L. Reich: The Deported Gaze Marta Marín-Dòmine16. Jorge Semprún and the Holocaust Soledad Fox Maura17. Montserrat Roig and her Contribution to the Memory of the Republican Deportation Rosa ToranV. Propaganda18. Francoist Antisemitic Propaganda, 1939–1945 Javier Domínguez Arribas19. The Catholic Church and the Jews in Franco’s Spain during the Holocaust, 1939–1945 Graciela Ben-Dror 20. The Politics of Survival: Madrid’s Pro-Jewish Propaganda and the Canonization of Francisco Franco as Benefactor of JewsPedro Correa Martín-Arroyo21. Tainted Visions of War: Antisemitic German Propaganda in Spain Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío22. A Touch of Nazi Sophistication: The Promotion of Spanish Culture in Wartime Germany Marició Janué i MiretVI. The Blue Division23. The Blue Division and the National Question in the Occupied Territory of Russia, 1941–1943Boris Kovalev24. Representations of the Blue Division in Memoir and Fiction Macarena Tejada LópezVII. Nazis in Spain25. Spain’s Neutral Holocaust: Memories of the Axis Alliance in Francoist and Post-Franco Spain, or "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Otto Skorzeny" Joshua Goode26. Nazis, Real and Imagined, in Post-World War II Spain David MessengerVIII. The Holocaust in Contemporary Spanish and Ladino Culture27. Memory and the Ethical Imagination: The Holocaust and Deportation to Mauthausen in Twenty-first Century Spanish Theater Marilén Loyola28. Audiovisual Production on the Republican Deportation and Spain as Haven of the Nazis Isabel Estrada29. With Sepharad as a Void: Recent Reckoning with the Holocaust in Spanish Fiction Stacy N. Beckwith30. "Only Writing Matters": Anne Frank in/and Spanish Holocaust Poetry, 1966–2004 Paul Cahill31. The Words that Replace the Elusive Past: Some Recent Ladino Poetic Responses to the Holocaust Shmuel Refael32. Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in Spain Marta SimóIX. Afterlives: Holocaust Appropriations in Spain33. Between "No Pasarán" and "Nunca Más": The Holocaust and the Revisiting of Spain’s Legacy of Mass Violence Alejandro Baer and Natan SznaiderContributor BiographiesBibliographyList of ArchivesIndex