Reckonings | University College London) Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences Mary (Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences Fulbrook

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A single word - Auschwitz - is often used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. Yet a focus on a single concentration camp - however horrific what happened there, however massively catastrophic its scale - leaves an incomplete story, a truncated history. It cannot fully communicate the myriad ways in which individuals became tangled up on the side of the perpetrators, and obscures the diversity of experiencesamong a wide range of victims as they struggled and died, or managed, against all odds, to survive. In the process, we also miss…