Oxford University prints a quarterly journal entitled Holocaust and Genocide Studies
This journal provides an insight on cutting edge developments in Holocaust Belief. An article from the latest Journal, Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 2026, is an examples of current Believer research, the epistemology of Holocaust Believers (such as it exists), and the funding that drives it all. https://academic.oup.com/hgs/issue/40/1
The article is “ Tele-Pathos' (Feeling From Afar) in Graphic Albums Created During the Holocaust" written by Professor Rachel E Perry.
Professor Perry's article "explores emotions" in two graphic albums of lithographs created in Palestine by German Jewish refugees: Erich (Eri) Glas's Through the Night: A Story Without Word (1942) and Lea Grundig's In the Valley of Slaughter (1944).
Neither Glas nor Grundig were in Germany after 1939. Glas left Germany and settled in a kibutz in 1934. Lea Grundig (née Langer) and her husband were ardent communists and arrested twice, in 1936 and again in June 1938, when they were caught spreading communist propaganda. Sentenced to four months in the Dresden prison, she was to be sent to Ravensbrück, but was ultimately placed on an emigration list by the Zionist Palestine Office and expelled from Germany in 1939.
Despite the lack of any direct experience with events in Germany, Perry claims that Glas and Grundig experienced "Tele-Pathos." Both albums belong to an “emotional community” which was profoundly concerned about the ongoing persecution and extermination of European Jewry.
Further, these albums "challenge scholarly assumptions" about silence, knowledge, and representation during the war years. Employing emotional styles (Expressionism), gestures (pathos forms), and topoi (maternal loss), their graphic narratives encourage “tele-pathos”—or feeling from afar—to rouse the emotions of their public." Glas's prints are a montage of scenes of atrocities entitled “In the Flames,” “Pogrom,” “Rape,” “Force,” “Inquisition,” “Master Race (Herrenvolk),” “Concentration Camp,” “Mass Shooting,” “Burning of Corpses,”
Professor Perry's article does contain interesting facts supporting Revisionism. The one being that in 1939 National Socialist policy was to expel Jewish "troublemakers," not kill them. Although the motive may have been to create problems for the British. A second relates to the date claims of genocide were first made.
Perry notes that Glas was not working in a vacuum. Already, in April 1940, the Anti-Nazi League published The Black Album through the Arieli Press in Tel Aviv: a small, bound album measuring 14 × 10 cm, containing ten postcards to be removed along a perforated margin that directed the public to “Send this card to everyone you know in the world and participate in the disclosure of the Nazi crimes.” The album advertises itself as “the first series of pictures disclosing Nazi atrocities in Poland,” and each postcard displays a photograph, drawing, or photomontage depicting a specific crime, with captions in Hebrew, English, and French. The frontispiece enjoins the buyer to publicize Nazi atrocities and “unmask Hitlerism by sending the postcards of the Album to his friends and acquaintances all over the world”:
The first iteration of Nights was in November 1942. On November 23, 1942, the Jewish national institutions in Palestine released an official statement in the press about the Nazis’ systematic extermination of European Jewry.
Research for the article was supported by the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Perry teaches in the Weiss-Livnat Holocaust Studies program at the University of Haifa and in the Holocaust and Genocide program at Gratz College. She has published on topics such as Yizkor books; found footage; color reproduction; reenactment; graphic narratives; and visual testimony.