Bock, Laura

Project title: KZ Hersbruck: a look at the impact of the Holocaust on a small German town

Department: Germanic and Slavic Studies

Faculty supervisor: Dr. Helga Thorson

"KZ Hersbruck was a satellite camp of KZ Flössenberg, with another satellite camp close by in Happurg. How has this tiny camp been remembered and memorialized in comparison to much larger, well known camps? How did this camp impact the citizens of the small town of Hersbruck? How was the memory of the camp taught or not taught in schools, in combination with the teaching of the Holocaust as a whole?"