historicity-was-already-taken:

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. As a Holocaust Historian, I have specifically devoted myself to working on the history of women and gender in the Holocaust, and bringing those histories ever-closer to mainstream historical memory.

So, I’d like to link you all to a few pieces of writing I’ve done on the topic.

An 11-part post series about Vladka Meed, a Jewish woman who smuggled explosives into the Warsaw Ghetto in preparation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

A profile of Hannah Szenes, a Hungarian Jewish paratrooper who worked behind Nazi lines in services of the SOE (Special Operations Executive, same as Peggy Carter and Noor Khan).

A thinkpiece about how we misuse the memory of Anne Frank.

An assessment of how Holocaust memory is shaped by male experiences, and an analysis of what we miss through this centering of the male experience.

i love when people say about childrens lit (usually harry potter) “looking back it’s actually written really simplistically, its not good :/“ like… yea cause it’s a kids book and your not a kid anymore lol if you made it to age 21 basing your personality off harry potter then clearly it was good enough to have a lasting effect on you, and regardless of “good” if any book or series can mean so much to so many children then that’s value in and of itself