Dominic Williams - Böcker

This handbook examines Auschwitz-Birkenau as both a site and a symbol of Nazi genocide. Scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives consider Auschwitz’s history by engaging with Holocaust historiography and its place in Holocaust memory and representation, illustrating their mutual influence.The chapters bring new insights to topics that other studies of Auschwitz have explored before, such as the Sonderkommando, the Czech family camp, and literary representations of Auschwitz. Other chapters cover recent developments and more neglected areas, such as the experience and memory of Romani prisoners, the fate of Soviet prisoners of war, and Auschwitz’s presence on social media. The handbook also responds to a number of recent trends and new paradigms in Holocaust Studies, including contributions from the fields of Environmental Studies, Spatial Studies, and Gender Studies.As a crucial overview of the topic of Auschwitz-Birkenau and an introduction to its most recent and fruitful scholarly approaches, this handbook will be a valuable resource for undergraduates from second year and up, as well as for graduate students and researchers seeking a survey of the field.

This unique, interdisciplinary book critically examines the important roles that witness accounts from healthcare professionals have played in testifying to historical instances of genocide, mass killing, epidemic disease, and natural disaster over the past century. Knowledge and perceptions of many major disasters – natural and human-made – have been shaped by witness accounts provided by doctors, nurses, and other medical practitioners.Bookended by two key events in the modern history of medicine, the Holocaust and the COVID-19 pandemic, this original volume engages with topics, including the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, and the Korean War. Drawing on a multidisciplinary selection of leading scholars and healthcare practitioners and discussing a wide range of media, its emphasizes mental and physical health, highlights the ethical challenges and moral stresses these terrible events can pose, and assesses the ways in which the testimonies of healthcare professionals are qualitatively different from other forms of witness.This wide-ranging, volume explores issues and themes relevant to medical humanities, history of medicine, peace and conflict studies, narrative medicine, humanitarian healthcare, healthcare ethics, trauma studies and global health. It is an essential contribution for all healthcare practitioners, aid workers and academics interested in these fields.

This unique, interdisciplinary book critically examines the important roles that witness accounts from healthcare professionals have played in testifying to historical instances of genocide, mass killing, epidemic disease, and natural disaster over the past century. Knowledge and perceptions of many major disasters – natural and human-made – have been shaped by witness accounts provided by doctors, nurses, and other medical practitioners.Bookended by two key events in the modern history of medicine, the Holocaust and the COVID-19 pandemic, this original volume engages with topics, including the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, and the Korean War. Drawing on a multidisciplinary selection of leading scholars and healthcare practitioners and discussing a wide range of media, its emphasizes mental and physical health, highlights the ethical challenges and moral stresses these terrible events can pose, and assesses the ways in which the testimonies of healthcare professionals are qualitatively different from other forms of witness.This wide-ranging, volume explores issues and themes relevant to medical humanities, history of medicine, peace and conflict studies, narrative medicine, humanitarian healthcare, healthcare ethics, trauma studies and global health. It is an essential contribution for all healthcare practitioners, aid workers and academics interested in these fields.

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando-the "special squads," composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these "Scrolls of Auschwitz," which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp's liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando—the “special squads,” composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process—buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these “Scrolls of Auschwitz,” which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp’s liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.

The Sonderkommando—the “special squad” of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau—comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, they are the object of fierce condemnation even today. Yet it was a group of these seemingly compromised men who carried out the revolt of October 7, 1944, one of the most celebrated acts of Holocaust resistance. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—by themselves and by others—both during and after the Holocaust.

The Sonderkommando—the “special squad” of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau—comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history. As eyewitnesses to and unwilling abettors of the murder of their fellow Jews, they are the object of fierce condemnation even today. Yet it was a group of these seemingly compromised men who carried out the revolt of October 7, 1944, one of the most celebrated acts of Holocaust resistance. This interdisciplinary collection assembles careful investigations into how the Sonderkommando have been represented—by themselves and by others—both during and after the Holocaust.

A comprehensive and easy-to-use dictionary for each item listing its romaji (phonetic English) and kanji spellings and its English equivalent.

A comprehensive and easy-to-use dictionary for each item listing its romaji (phonetic English) and kanji spellings and its English equivalent.

This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to process and dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered. They have been central to a number of key topics in post-war debates about the Shoah: collaboration, moral compromise and survival, resistance, representation, and the possibility of bearing witness. Their testimony however has mostly met with a reluctance to engage in depth with it. Moving from testimonies produced within the event, the Scrolls of Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando photographs, to testimonies given at trials and for video archives, and to the paintings of David Olère and the film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, this book demonstrates the importance of their witnessing in the post-war memory of the Holocaust, and provides vital new insights into the questions of representation, memory, gender, and the Shoah.

This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando were slave labourers in the gas chambers and crematoria, forced to process and dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered. They have been central to a number of key topics in post-war debates about the Shoah: collaboration, moral compromise and survival, resistance, representation, and the possibility of bearing witness. Their testimony however has mostly met with a reluctance to engage in depth with it. Moving from testimonies produced within the event, the Scrolls of Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando photographs, to testimonies given at trials and for video archives, and to the paintings of David Olère and the film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, this book demonstrates the importance of their witnessing in the post-war memory of the Holocaust, and provides vital new insights into the questions of representation, memory, gender, and the Shoah.

Någonstans och Ingenstans kallas två grill- och festplatser som ligger utmed Svartån i Tranås, och som förr ofta användes när festsugna ungdomar ville vara i fred, långt borta från de vuxnas granskande blickar. Mellan Någonstans och Ingenstans heter antologin där det bjuds på poesi, både på svenska och engelska, i olika former. Allt från långa dikter till kortare poem och haiku. 29 poeter från hela världen som vistats i Tranås låter läsaren ta del av deras intryck av staden och dess människor, när de med utomståendes ögon blickar in i deras vardag, deras värld. En plats inte bara i ingenstans utan också i någonstans. Varken bättre eller sämre än andra städer. Tranås genom främlingars ögon: Jonas Bengt Svensson, Hanna Halgren, Bengt O Björklund, Joakim Becker, Ullias Berglund, Christer Boberg, Anthony Jones, Melanie Perry, Anisur Rahman Derek Coyle, Dominic Williams, Sine Ergün, Colm Ó Ciarnáin, Lucy Durneen, Ferhat Mahir Çakaloz, Dana Perry, Maria McManus, Freke Räihä, Ica Fisherstöm, Michelle Dooley Mahon, Chris Ozzard, Moheb Soliman, Inês Lampreia, Calvin Wharton, Tishani Doshi, Phelim Kavanagh, Eleanor Shaw, Rhian Elizabeth, Jeni Williams, Natalie Holborow

Pen & Paper - Punk in Print - Dominic Williams To many people who were not directly involved, the punk scene of the 1980s was gratuitously aggressive, confrontational and anti-social. Welsh poet, Dominic Williams, was not a punk, but three decades later he was offered the opportunity to investigate the punk movement in the most intimate manner. He and three other artists were given exclusive access to an archive of the personal correspondence, written over a period of ten years, between young people from over 35 countries around the world, all closely allied by punk music and culture. This volume is a hybrid of essay, memoir and poetry; responding to an international community’s common interest in hardcore music and also, a shared set of ethical, social equality and environmental values. In a largely pre-digital world, the exchanges of letters in the archive demonstrate how the expansion the principles of punk culture were realised in contemporary twenty-first century campaigns and movements such as Extinction Rebellion, Me Too, Black Lives Matter and Veganism. The greatest element of the political and social sub-culture that underpinned second wave of punk in the 1980s was the DIY ethic. If the movement seemed confrontational and anti-social it was because the members of this sub-culture were idealists and activists, reacting against the rampant capitalism and nationalism in Western society at the time. In a post-Brexit Europe the situation seems very familiar. In 2018 the Jönköping County Archive, Sweden, took receipt of a box of material, the personal correspondence, some 35 years old, of three individuals who were involved in the punk scene in the town of Tranås in the eighties. The correspondence was a collection of fanzines, cassettes and personal letters from over 35 countries around the world. The correspondents were some of the ordinary young people of the second wave of punk music, the DIY punk movement. A group of young people who employed their creativity, innovation and political activism to very quickly establish an international network in a pre-digital era. Using cassette culture and postal services they created solidarity among young people around the globe. Their music was a common language for their cultural exchange and a shared set of values to achieve, in spite of governments and bureaucracies, a better world. The punk letters project is a collective and collaborative artistic response by a small group of creative practitioners in Wales, Serbia, Croatia and Sweden to this “punk archive”. The response is based upon research into the archive and consideration of the continued existence of a punk or post punk culture in the twenty-first century. The outputs of the project are intended to promote the positive power and values of a DIY culture to young people of the 2020s. The individual creative responses of the artists involved enable their own new dialogue to emerge, based upon a common value structure. Pen and Paper : Punks in Print is a work of creative non-fiction produced as an artistic response to an archive of letters exchanged between punks in the 1980s and, in a true DIY punk style, it is a word-based collage. Williams provides responses not only to the content of the archive, which often manifest themselves in found poems, but also with prose and poetry that responds to his own creative process as well as the practices and the artistic outputs of his fellow artists. Williams uses personal anecdote and memory; alongside social commentary and verse; to create a narrative that embodies the full experience of participating in this contemporary arts project.

Stoppbiljett. Avstigning Tranås! är en antologi om Fritiof Nilsson Piratens tid i Sommenbygd 1921-1931. Piraten arbetade som advokat i Tranås där han började skriva på Bombi Bitt och jag. I boken får man ta del av ångbåtsturer på Sommen, utflykter i Ydre, juridiska fall, porträtt av verkliga och litterära personer. Piraten dyker även upp i en serie .Jonas Ellerström och Freke Räihäs poesi ingår likaså flera texter av Lars Börje Jacobson m fl. Några nyupptäckta små anteckningar av i Piraten i en gästbok är också med i antologin.