Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism

Join us for 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 explores how postwar German society grappled with questions of rescue, responsibility, and collective memory in the aftermath of Nazism. He
will give a brief introduction of his book that examines how the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust has been understood, remembered, and represented in Germany from the Nazi period to the present.

Harry Legg will comment on the book, its contribution to current research on the non-Jewish German population’s attitudes and actions toward Jews during the Nazi regime. Dr. Kabalek and Legg will then hold a reflective discussion on memory, postwar narratives, the postwar commemoration of rescuers, and the ongoing challenges of confronting the past.

This program is hosted by the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum in partnership with Rabin Chair Forum, Classrooms Without Borders, and the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre.