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Broadening the Field of the Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: Czapliński reads the environmental history of the Holocaust as a reflection on the relationship between mass death and its localization. This concept – which brings together looselyrelated or even unrelated practices – has emerged on the intersection of Holocaust studies, ecology and posthumanism. Its retrospective effect is an ontological shift in Holocaust research: the environment comes to be perceived as a place, as a witness, an ally or even accomplices of the genocide. A further consequence, it seems, is the necessity to broaden the field of research, facilitating the transition from an environmental history of the extermination to an exterminatory history of the environment.

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