The Holocaust as Active Memory : The Past in the Present


Marie Louise. Seeberg
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2013.
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1 online resource (220 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction: The Holocaust as Active Memory; 1 Linking Religion and Family: Memories of Children Hidden in Belgian Convents; 2 Collective Trajectory and Generational Work in Families of Jewish Displaced Persons: Epistemological Processes in the Research Situation; 3 In a Double Voice: Representations of the Holocaust in Polish Literature, 1980-2011.; 4 Winners Once a Year? How Russian-speaking Jews in Germany Make Sense of World War II and the Holocaust as Part of Transnational Biographic Experience. - 5 Women's Peace Activism and the Holocaust: Reversing the Hegemonic Holocaust Discourse in Israel6 'The History, the Papers, Let Me See It!' Compensation Processes: The Second Generation between Archive Truth and Family Speculations; 7 From Rescue to Escape in 1943: On a Path to De-victimizing the Danish Jews; 8 Finland, the Vernichtungskrieg and the Holocaust; 9 Swedish Rescue Operations during the Second World War: Accomplishments and Aftermath; 10 The Social Phenomenon of Silence; Index. - What are the catalysts that trigger a change from silence to discussion of the Holocaust? What happens when we talk its invisibility away? How are memories of the Holocaust reflected in different social environments? Who asks questions about memories of the Holocaust, and which answers do they find, at which point in time and from which past and present positions related to their societies and to the phenomenon in question? This book highlights the contexts in which such questions are asked. By introducing the concept of 'active memory', this book contributes to recent developments in memory s
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9781409451082

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