Microhistories of the Holocaust and the Use of Family History: The Families Ganz / Brenzinger, c1871 - 1945

从综合历史和微观历史的角度来看，家族史正在重塑大屠杀的史学，而这项研究是在过去十年出版的大屠杀微观历史浪潮中进行的。它将首次评估家族史在其中的地位，并批判性地反思家族史在寻找最后一批大屠杀幸存者不再与我们同在时所发生的事情的答案的努力中的地位。通过与大屠杀历史及其传播领域的利益攸关方合作，我将分析第二代和第三代作者及其故事的影响和参与潜力，并将我的发现应用于我自己的家族史。我的项目将表明，学术历史可以从家族史资源中获益良多。来自德国美因茨和弗莱堡的‘犹太人’甘茨家族和‘雅利安人’布伦辛格家族是通过婚姻联系在一起的，他们被赋予了不同的‘犹太人’身份（被同化并受洗）。”“等级”，“米歇尔”2。1933- 1945年间的“等级”和“雅利安人”。尽管他们作为经济精英的抱负和成就与德国经济部长Hjalmar Schacht博士和优生学家Eugen Fischer等人有联系，但他们发现自己处于“受害者”和“肇事者”的不同位置。他们写给彼此的信可以揭示官方和私人身份定义的问题；他们的报道和经历让我们得以审视围绕同化问题的个人与集体叙事，以及纳粹政权对同化的逆转。性别和阶级将与宗教、社会和政治网络一起成为需要考虑的重要类别。

Family histories are reshaping the historiography of the Holocaust in terms of integrated history as well as microhistory, and this research sits within a wave of microhistories of the Holocaust published in the past decade. It will evaluate for the first time the place of family history within these, as well as reflect critically on their place in the drive to find an answer to what happens when the last Holocaust survivors are no longer with us. By working with stakeholders in the field of Holocaust history and its dissemination, I will analyse the impact and potential for engagement of second- and third-generation authors and their stories and apply my findings to my own family history.My project will show that academic history has a lot to gain from family history sources. The 'Jewish' family Ganz and the 'Aryan' family Brenzinger from Mainz and Freiburg, Germany, were related through marriageand were ascribed different identities as 'Jews' (assimilated and baptised), 'Mischlinge 1. Grades', 'Mischlinge 2. Grades', and 'Aryans' during the years 1933-45. Even though their ambitions and achievements as members of the economic elite with links to Reich Minister of Economics, Dr Hjalmar Schacht and eugenicist Eugen Fischer, amongst others, were very similar, they found themselves in the disparate positions of 'victims' and 'perpetrators'. Their letters to each other can shed light on questions of official and private definitions of identity; their reports and experiences allow us to examine individual v. collective narratives around the issueof assimilation and its reversal by the Nazi regime. Gender and class will be important categories to consider alongside religious, social and political networks.