Nadege Ragaru, translated by Victoria Baena and David A. Rich

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
On the "Rescue of the Jews" and National Exceptionalism: A Riddle of Received Wisdom
Knowledge about the Holocaust: Justice, Fiction, and Controversies
Contours of an Investigation
Nationalizing the Past, Internationally
Reassessing the Cold War Era
The Way Forward

Chapter 1. The Judicial Production of an Account of Anti-Jewish Persecution: The Genesis of a Heroic Narrative
Judging in Time of War
The (In)visibility of Anti-Jewish Crimes in the "General Trials"
The Construction of a Judicial Cause by Bulgarian Communist Jews
A Sketch of the Trial Scene
Courtroom 11
The Germans, the Fascists, and the "Good People": Drawing the Perimeter of Guilt
A Fascist is an Anti-Semite... and Vice Versa
The Euphemization of Jewish Suffering
The Posterity of the Court: A Central Elision

Chapter 2. Deportation of the Jews, from Belomorie to the Screen: Negotiating a "Socialist" Reading of the War
Cinemas on Unequal Terms in Bulgaria and East Germany
Elusive Presences of the Holocaust on the Screens
One Co-production, Two Institutions, Several Agendas
Konrad Wolf and Angel Wagenstein, a Dear Friendship
Shooting Notes, and Other Digressions
Script, Storyboard, and Film: Effects of Cutting and Framing
Two Very Different Wars: The Bulgarian Lens
Negotiating an East-East Reading of Nazism: German Polychromy?
Jewish Fates, in a Minor Key
Jewish Passivity: A Question of Gender?
Christian Signs forJewish Suffering? A Transnational Symbolic Repertoire

Chapter 3. The Deportation of Jews from Northern Greece: The Mysterious Journeys of a 1943 Film Footage
Archival Inventories as Texts and Gaze
A Film withoutan Author or Instructions?
Scrutinizing Frames that Resist Analysis
From Visual Document to Legal Evidence: The Beckerle Case
Judicial Cooperation between West Germany, the United States, Israel, and Bulgaria: A Tale of the Cold War
When Art Meets the Intelligence Community
Cultural Diplomacy and the "Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews"
The "Rescue" Goes West: Managing Scarcity and Acquisition Competitions
Managing Scarcity and Acquisition Competitions
Epilogue

Chapter 4. Accounts of "Rescue" and Deportation in Dialogue: Memory Controversies after 1989
Bringing Back the Polyphony of the Past: (In)divisible Truths
When History takes Center Stage
Re-negotiating the Territorial Span of Bulgaria's Historical Narrative
Words and Walls of Conflict in Balkan Jewish Communities
The "Blagovest Sendov" Affair: A Bulgarian Forest in the (Domestic) Political Arena
Dimitär Pes¿ev: A New Topography of Memory

Chapter 5. Fruitful Disputes? Transnational Mobilizations and the Institutionalization of a Space of Dissensus
Charting a New Historiography
Bulgarian-Macedonian Holocaust Controversies
When European Institutions Discuss History and Memory
Games of Scale, Games of Chess: Debating Bulgaria's Memory Policies
Remembering the Holocaust to Fight Anti-Semitism: A Room forConvergence?
In the Spotlight of Euro-Atlantic Integration

Conclusion
Historiographical Disputes
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Holocaust
Jewish Voices in the Writing of the Past
Challenges of the Page: Leafing Through Time, Speaking the Seen

Appendix: The March 1943 Deportations from Territories Occupied by Bulgaria
Bibliography
Index