Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism
22 February @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation marking the launch of Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025).
In this thought-provoking book, Dr Kobi Kabalek examines how postwar German society has grappled with questions of rescue, responsibility, and collective memory after Nazism. His research explores how the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust has been understood, remembered, and represented in Germany from the Nazi period to the present.
The programme will include a short introduction to the book followed by a reflective conversation and audience discussion.
In Conversation
Dr Kobi Kabalek
Holocaust Studies and Visual Studies, Penn State University
Dr Kabalek’s work focuses on Holocaust memory, visual culture, and the ways rescue and responsibility have been interpreted in Germany since 1945.
Harry Legg
PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh
Harry Legg will comment on the book and its contribution to current research on the attitudes and actions of the non-Jewish German population toward Jews during the Nazi regime.
Together, the speakers will reflect on memory, postwar narratives, the commemoration of rescuers, and the ongoing challenges of confronting the past.