Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume II: On Screen and in the Gallery - Hardcover

by Karen Berman (Editor), Gail Humphries (Editor)

Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume II: On Screen and in the Gallery continues the journey begun in Volume I, exploring how film, visual art, and museum curation preserve memory and inspire healing. Edited by Karen Berman, Ph.D., and Gail Humphries Ph.D., this powerful collection gathers international artists, filmmakers, scholars, and survivors who use creative expression to confront trauma, educate future generations, and stand against Hate. Essays and interviews examine how Holocaust stories endure through screen and canvas-transforming grief into empathy and remembrance into action.

With reflections from museum directors, educators, and second-generation artists, Volume II demonstrates that art is not only memory, but renewal. Through its interdisciplinary lens-spanning psychology, history, and the arts-this volume offers a vital reminder that creative expression can heal, educate, and resist injustice.

For readers of Holocaust studies, film, art, and social justice, Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal, Volume II: On Screen and in the Gallery, reveals how the power of art continues to speak truth, restore dignity, and echo the enduring call of Never Again.

". . . a profound journey through the poignant narratives and visual representations of the Holocaust, challenging us to envision a future shaped by compassion and justice, utilizing creativity and art as pathways to remembrance and healing."-Thomas Schumacher, Chief Creative Officer, Disney Theatrical Group"In 2018, I was asked to direct a new production of Fiddler on the Roof...I was able to achieve a final sequence that caused palpable distress and horror in our audience...We were witness to inhumanity, to inexplicable prejudice, to what would become . . . the Holocaust."

-SIR TREVOR NUNN, British Theatre Director and former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre

"Drs. Karen Berman and Gail Humphries take us on a profound journey through the poignant narratives and visual representations of the Holocaust, challenging us to envision a future shaped by compassion and justice while utilizing creativity and art as pathways to remembrance and healing."

-THOMAS SCHUMACHER, Chief Creative Officer, Disney Theatrical Group