Britain and Holocaust Consciousness in the 1960s

Until now, the scholarly literature on the development of ''Holocaust consciousness'' in the UK, the 1960s has been a missing decade. This book brings together an impressive cast of expert scholars to provide a much-needed corrective to the situation. It ranges widely across disciplines and cultural spheres, as well as the nations and regions of the UK, to reveal that what we now call ''Holocaust consciousness'' was decisively created in the UK the 1960s. Britain and Holocaust Consciousness in the 1960s sheds light - remarkably for the first time - on the British reaction to the 1961 Eichmann Trial. It considers the previously unexamined lives of Kindertransportees as they entered their thirties and forties, as well as the 1964 Dering v Uris libel trial in London, at the heart of which were horrific medical experiments at Auschwitz and which was covered extensively by the British press at the time. The book also covers a wealth of British cultural responses to the Holocaust from the period, including memoir literature, cinema, theatre and music, and incorporates vital material on children, refugees, survivors, gender and religion.

Product details

• Authors: Johannes-Dieter Steinert, Dan Stone
• Assisted by: Johannes-Dieter Steinert (Editor), Dan Stone (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 19.02.2026
• EAN: 9781350443952
• ISBN: 978-1-350-44395-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, The Holocaust, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, c 1960 to c 1969, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust