15/10/2026
📘 ✏️ We're pleased to announce the new issue of our open access journal S:I.M.O.N. is here – a special issue on Personal Accounts in Holocaust Studies, edited by Éva Kovács and Marianne Windsperger!
S:I.M.O.N. Vol. 13 No. 2 (2026) | Special Issue
The journal is freely accessible:
📌 https://simon.vwi.ac.at
📕 DOI ➡ https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0226
INTRODUCTION
▪️ Éva Kovács & Marianne Windsperger
Personal Accounts in Holocaust Studies
ARTICLES
▪️ Winson Chu
“A Vile Character”
Alfons Sutter and the Kriminalpolizei in the Łódź Ghetto
▪️ Paula-Greta Barak
The Efraim Berkovici Collection
Poesiealbum and Diary Writing in “Ilaniah” Children’s Village
▪️ René Schlott
Ehrungen für Raul Hilberg
Ein Porträt des Holocaustforschers als Preisempfänger
▪️ Jenny Watson
Rediscovering Intimacy
Intimate Violence and the Holocaust in German-language Literature since 2010
ESSAY
▪️ Hanja Dämon
The Last Stage
Wanda Jakubowska’s Ostatni etap in Post-war Austria, 1948–1949
COMING TO TERMS
▪️ Mykhaylo Krasnyanskyy
The Jewish Family Under Attack
EVENT
▪️ Monika Schreiber, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Paula Somogyi
BELF
Geschichte einer Wiener jüdischen Buchhandlung
▪️ Katinka Mári & Malin Thor Tureby
Ethical and Methodological Approaches to Holocaust Testimonies
Bridging Oral History and Digital Humanities
INTERVIEW
▪️ Éva Kovács, Dóra Pataricza
“May it continue!”
An Interview with Ruth Ellen Gruber
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With thanks to the Claims Conference, funded by the Federal Ministry of Finance