The dominance of the national: on the susceptibility of Holocaust memory*

Bill Niven is Professor in Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University. He has written widely on Germany’s attempts to come to terms with the Nazi and East German pasts and, more recently, on European memory of the Holocaust. William.niven@ 123456ntu.ac.uk

Amy Williams is a researcher in history at Nottingham Trent University, financed by the Midlands4Cities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. She has just completed her Ph.D. on “Memory of the Kindertransport in National and Transnational Perspective”. amy.williams032011@ 123456my.ntu.ac.uk