Papers by Bettine Siertsema
Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, May 1, 2012
Timo Myllyntaus ed., Thinking through the Environment. Green Approaches to Global History Alfons ... more Timo Myllyntaus ed., Thinking through the Environment. Green Approaches to Global History Alfons Fransen, Dijk onder spanning. De ecologische, politieke en financiële geschiedenis van de Diemerdijk bij Amsterdam Arie Wilschut, Beelden van tijd. De rol van historisch tijdsbewustzijn bij het leren van geschiedenis
BRILL eBooks, 2014
This chapter focuses on the character, the figure of Herr Neigel, in See Under: Love . It compare... more This chapter focuses on the character, the figure of Herr Neigel, in See Under: Love . It compares his portrait with the way victims of the concentration camps write about the perpetrators, and with historical findings regarding background and personality of SS-officers, as they come forth in documents and interviews. As the SS in general is not a very prominent theme in these texts, the positive exceptions contribute substantially to the image of the perpetrators, although it is stressed that indeed they are exceptions. This way the image of the perpetrator tends to be somewhat more positive than is in accordance with reality. Rudolf Hoss and his memoirs are mentioned in David Grossman's novel, and openly compared with Neigel, for instance the exiting stories they are told in their childhood about military expeditions in Africa. Keywords: concentration camps; David Grossman; Herr Neigel; perpetrator; Rudolf Hoss; See Under: Love
American Imago, Mar 1, 2023
Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Dec 11, 2015
De maanden april en mei bieden elk jaar een vloedgolf van krantenartikelen
The concentration camp has become part of European collective memory. There are various reasons f... more The concentration camp has become part of European collective memory. There are various reasons for considering it a sacred space: not only because prisoners at the time celebrated liturgy there, however strictly prohibited, or made it an individual sacred space in prayer, or because it is a place where people commemorate the victims who died there, but most importantly because it reminds us of what man is capable of and warns us to always stay alert not to let it happen again.
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2019
An unobtrusive line in a written testimony by Ies Spetter proves that Etty Hillesum was involved ... more An unobtrusive line in a written testimony by Ies Spetter proves that Etty Hillesum was involved in a network that smuggled children out of transit camp Westerbork. This seems in contrast with her previously declared conviction that she herself should share the fate of her people.
Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Aug 8, 2019
Het verhaal van de zakelijke avonturen van de Joodse Isay Rottenberg in het Duitsland van de jare... more Het verhaal van de zakelijke avonturen van de Joodse Isay Rottenberg in het Duitsland van de jaren dertig is een mooi voorbeeld van microgeschiedenis.
Religion and Gender, Feb 19, 2012
BY BETTINE SIERTSEMA, VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM Holocaust studies thrive on approaches from a wide ... more BY BETTINE SIERTSEMA, VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM Holocaust studies thrive on approaches from a wide range of disciplines. Frequently new high-profile historical research is published; sociological and psychological work is done on perpetrators and victims, their interrelations and their offspring; literary and film scholars explore the possibilities and boundaries of representation of the Shoah (Holocaust) in poetry, fiction and on screen; theologians consider the tenability of the traditional concepts of God 'after Auschwitz'. And each of these themes can be viewed in a gender perspective. It is precisely this what Scham und Schuld. Geschlechter(sub)texte der Shoah [Shame and guilt. Gender (sub)texts of the Shoah] sets out to do. This collection of German essays is the fruit of a conference at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Its central issue is, firstly, the transmission of shame and guilt through the generations, and, secondly, the role of these emotions in the cultural and political debates on the remembrance of National Socialism in the country of the perpetrators. In all cases the gender perspective is taken into consideration, a mostly unarticulated and unquestioned perspective. Together the essays aim to build an interdisciplinary bridge between a psychoanalytic conceptualizing of the
Religion and Gender, Dec 21, 2011
This article examines the origins and uses by the Vatican of the theological anthropology of comp... more This article examines the origins and uses by the Vatican of the theological anthropology of complementarity, arguing that the doctrine of complementarity, under which the sexes are essentially different though not unequal, is an invention of the twentieth century untraceable in earlier centuries, but developed by, among others, the Popes from Pius XII through Benedict XVI, in part as a response to feminist claims, including those recently anathematized by the Vatican under the term 'gender.' After exploring some difficulties with the application of the doctrine of complementarity as Catholic orthodoxy, the article concludes by compiling preliminary evidence as to the extent Pope Francis will continue his predecessors' approach to complementarity.
Springer eBooks, 2022
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
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