Collective memory 

I. The unknown Jewish hero  

Linn, R. (2006, April 13). Escapee from Auschwitz who revealed the truth about the camp . The Guardian

 See also AlanTwigg *Defending Vrba  

Laor, Y. (2004, December 26). Auschwitz, they tell me you've become popular . Haaretz.

Elboim, E. (2006, April 9). The Israeli people love dead heroes . Makor Rishon (Hebrew).

III. Politics and memory 

Linn, R. (2001). Naked Victims, dressed up memory: the escape from Auschwitz and the Israeli historiography. Israel Studies Bulletin, 16,2, 21-25. 

Linn, R. (2003). Genocide and the politics of remembering: The nameless: the celebrated and the would be Holocaust heroes. Journal of Genocide Research, 5, (4), 565-568.

Linn, R. (2004). The Escape from Auschwitz: Why didn't they teach us about it in school? Theory and Criticism, 24, 163-184 (Hebrew).

Linn, R. (2006, September). Against all hope - Escaping Auschwitz, escaping memory . The 2nd Global Conference on Hope: Probing the Boundaries. Mansfield College, Oxford.

Linn, R. (2011). Rudolf Vrba and the Auschwitz reports: Conflicting historical interpretations. In R. L. Braham, & W. J. vanden Heuvel (Eds.). The Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary. New York: Columbia University Press, 153-210.

IV. Media

Linn, R., Ben Ami, Y. Shalev, M. The escape from Auschwitz: video clip - part 1, video clip - part 2 – The Academic Channel. 11, April, 2005.

V. Newspapers 

Adler, P. (2005, January, 5). A conspiracy of silence. The Jerusalem Post. 

Dromi, U. (2005, January 25). Deaf ears, blind eyes. Haaretz. 

Linn, R. (2005, February 2). Response to Dromi. Haaretz 

Hume, M. (2006, March 31). Auschwitz escapee who told the world dies in B.C . The Globe and Mail. 

Douglas, M. (2006, April 7). Rudolf Vrba, 81, Auschwitz witness, dies. The New York Times. 

Martin, S. (2006, April 8). Rudolf Vrba, scientist and professor , 1924-2006. The Globe and Mail .

Elboim, E. (2006, April 9). The Israeli people love dead heroes . Makor Rishon (Hebrew).

Thurber, J. (2006, April 11). Rudolf Vrba, 81; Auschwitz escapee Gave 1st details of Nazi atrocities . The Los Angeles Times. 

Johnson, P. (2006, April 21). Israeli narrative omits Vrba. Jewish Independent.

Rose, H., & Rose, S. (2006, April 25). Letter: Rudolf Vrba. Guardian Unlimited - Obituaries.

Dodek, M. (2008, December 12). Hidden Shoah hero honored. Jewish Independent. 

Twigg, A. (2010). Vrba Rudolf.  ABC Book World. 

Warnes, K., (2012) Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler fled Auschwitz and wrote a Report , Wandering World History.

VI. Presentations     

Linn, R. Between the 'Known' and the 'Could be known': The Vrba/Wetzler escape from Auschwitz and Israeli Historiography. Association of Genocide Scholars,  Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, June 9-12, 2001.

Linn, R. Voice, silence and memory after Auschwitz. Representing the Shoah in the 21 Century Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2001

Linn, R. Escaping Auschwitz. New York Holocaust Museum, N.Y, U.S.A, October, 2004.

Linn, R. Escaping Auschwitz. Vancouver Holocaust Center, Vancouver, BC. Canada, October 14, 2004.

Linn, R. Escaping Auschwitz. International Association of Genocide Scholars, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, June 4-7, 2005

Linn, R. Escaping Auschwitz. Israel's Nuclear Facility. Dimona, Israel Jan, 26, 2006.

Linn, R. Escaping Auschwitz. Weizmann Institute of Science, March, 2006.

Linn, R. Escaping Auschwitz and the politics of memory. International Society of Political Psychology, Toronto, Canada, July, 2006.

Linn, R. Against all hope - Escaping Auschwitz, escaping memory. The 2nd Global Conference on Hope: Probing the Boundaries. Mansfield College, Oxford. England, Sept. 6, 2006.

Linn, R. Rudi Vrba: Hero of the Shoah – Vancouver Holocaust Education Center. Vancouver, BC Canada, April 26, 2007.

Linn, Ruth. Escaping Auschwitz. Annual Conference on Israel as an immigrant society: between the melting pot and multiculturalism. The Open University of Israel. June 11-13, 2007.

Linn, R. Genocide and the Psychology of Memory: the case of Rudolf Vrba. First Annual Rudolf Vrba Memorial Lecture. University of British Columbia . November, 30, 2008.

Linn, R. How collective is war's collective memory?. 30th Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide: A Half-Century of Changing Narratives. Millersville University, U.S.A. April 14-16, 2010.

Linn, R. The meaning of the Auschwitz reports: Rudi Vrba and his escape from Auschwitz. International Conference on the Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary. The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, the Graduate Center of the City University New York, April, 6-9, 2011.

Linn, R. La Salida de Auschwitz: de los judios tras la leberacion aliada. de enero 12Hs, DAIDA, Buenos Aires. Argentina March, 29, 2012.

Linn, R. How “Collective” is a war’s collective memory? Politics of Experience: Theorizing the politics of past.  Doctoral Symposium on the Politics of the Past.  Finnland-institut in Deutschland, Berlin, October 11-12, 2012.

Linn, R. Lost in 1944 – Found in 1994: The missing text of the Auschwitz escapee. Citizens and leaders in a comparative perspective: What can political psychology and political socialization research tell us about recent trend and events? International Society of Political Psychology.  Lomonosov, Moscow State University, October, 26-27, 2012.

Linn, R. “Good Morning Budapest”! Agranat's view on early warning: What has changed since the Kastner's trial? The Yom Kippur War: 40 years late.  The U. of Texas Austin, October, 21-22, 2013.

Linn, R. Genocide Heroes Never Die – They Are Just Ignored. International Association of Genocide Studies, The University of Winnipeg, Canada. July 17-19, 2014. 

Linn, R. Managing our past, Managing our future, Managing our collective memory. Annual Symposium on Management and Social Science. Seoul, South Korea. Aug, 29-31, 2014. 

Linn, R. Escaping Auschwitz – Why do we know so little about an event - so big. UNESCO Chair of bioethics Health Law and Ethics Center ,. The University of Haifa, Israel. April 14, 2014. 

Linn, R. Psychological Trauma Faced by Israeli Soldiers. The Vancouver Branch of Israel Medical Association, Vancouver, Canada. July 27, 2014.

Linn, R. Dr. Marek Edelman and Dr. Rudolf Vrba in the Israeli historiography. The Holocaust and the contemporary World, Poland, Krakow. April 23–24, 2015. 

Linn, R. The Tension between The "Experts Discourse" and the "Survivors Discourse". Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia:  4th International Interdisciplinary Memory Conference, Gdańsk, Poland. September, 17-18, 2015.

Linn, R. Good morning Budapest: Early warning and uninformed victims during war. UNESCO 13th World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law. Nov. 27-29 Jerusalem, Israel, 2018. 

Linn, R. Escaping Auschwitz. The 14th International Association of Genocide Studies. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July14-18, 2019 

II - Women’s place in Holocaust Historiography

* With permission of Alan Twigg