May 14
New from Kelsey Brickl
The Dead Made Easier: The Narrative Laundering of the Holocaust
This piece examines how societies (and families) quietly reshape Holocaust victims into more comfortable versions: Disabled victims of Aktion T4 turned into “tragic medical cases,” queer survivors like Pierre Seel detached from their sexuality, Roma and Sinti genocide folded into vague wartime suffering, and political prisoners sanded down into generic stories of hardship.
A difficult but necessary look at why the dead are so often made easier to inherit.
Read the full essay here on The Times of Israel Blogs: The Dead Made Easier: The Narrative Laundering of the Holocaust by Kelsey Maurine Brickl.