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Explaining Neglect
Book chapter

Explaining Neglect

Arthur B. Shostak
Stealth Altruism, pp 211-224
2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315114460-24

Abstract

Forbidden Care Stealth Altruism Jewish Survivors National Memorial Day American Jewish Sociologist Warsaw Ghetto Volunteer Docents Ancient Jewish Tradition Spiritual Perseverance Warsaw Ghetto Revolt David Boder Museum Message Horror Story Dark Tourism Holocaust Scholars Allied High Command Yad Vashem Survivor Speaker Effective Altruism Yom HaShoah Emaciated Corpses Auschwitz Birkenau Death Camp Jewish Holocaust Survivors Paramilitary Death Squads High Risk Care
Initial emphasis on the Horror Story can be traced to the end of the war focus of the Allied High Command. It wanted evidence of Nazi "crimes against humanity" for the impending 1946 Nuremburg War Crime trials. Many Jewish victims were pledged to tell the world about unforgivable Nazi crimes, the better to prevent their reoccurrence. Aware of what the Allied Military and the news media emphasized, many told their own Horror Story, one that enabled listeners to sympathize with their suffering and silently damn perpetrators. Many academics adopted Boder's methodology and variants of its tools, leading Meir Dworzecki, a scholar/survivor, to note some twenty-three years after the war's end, "a great disproportion between the extensive accounts devoted to manifestations of moral degeneration in the ghettos and the few accounts of spiritual perseverance". Holocaust-related art has long focused on anguish, atrocities, and suffering.

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