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​This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative
and archiving practices as they were shaped, expanded, and
developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the
years that followed. By offering an extensive global view of these
changes as well as of the continuities that went with them, the
book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response
to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and
commemoration. The book aims to critically and empirically engage
with this abundance of memory to understand
both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during
the pandemic: what happened then to commemorative practices and
rituals around the world? How has the Covid-19 pandemic been
archived and remembered? What will remembering it actually entail,
and what will it mean in the future? Where did the Covid memory
boom come from? Who was behind it, how did it emerge, and in what
social configurations did it evolve?
This book provides a fresh perspective on the familiar belief that
memory policies are successful in building peaceful societies.
Whether in a stable democracy or in the wake of a violent political
conflict, this book argues that memory policies are unhelpful in
preventing hate, genocide, and mass crimes. Since the 1990s,
transmitting the memory of violent pasts has been utilised in
attempts to foster tolerance and fight racism, hate and
antisemitism. However, countries that invested in memory policies
have overseen the rise of hate crimes and populisms instead of
growing social cohesion. Breaking with the usual moralistic
position, this book takes stock of this situation. Where do these
memory policies come from? Whom do they serve? Can we make them
more effective? In other words, can we really learn from the past?
At a time when memory studies is blooming, this book questions the
normative belief in the effects of memory.
Since 1963, the state of Israel has awarded the title of "Righteous
among the Nations" to individuals who risked their lives sheltering
Jews during the Holocaust. This distinction remained solely an
Israeli initiative until the late 1990s, when European governments
began developing their own national categories, the most prominent
of which was the "Righteous of France," honoring those who
protected Jews during the Vichy regime. In National Policy, Global
Memory, Sarah Gensburger uses this dramatic episode to lend a new
perspective to debates over memory and nationhood. In particular,
she works to combine two often divergent disciplines-memory studies
and political science-to study "memory politics" as a form of
public policy.
On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from
the concentration camp at Drancy to the Levitan furniture store
building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of
three satellite camps (Levitan, Austerlitz, Bassano) in Paris.
Between July 1943 and August 1944, nearly eight hundred prisoners
spent a few weeks to a year in one of these buildings, previously
been used to store furniture, and were subjected to forced labor.
Although the history of the persecution and deportation of France's
Jews is well known, the three Parisian satellite camps have been
subjected to the silence of both memory and history. This lack of
attention by the most authoritative voices on the subject can
perhaps be explained by the absence of a collective memory or by
the marginal status of the Parisian detainees - the spouses of
Aryans, wives of prisoners of war, half-Jews. Still, the Parisian
camps did, and continue to this day, lack simple and
straightforward descriptions. This book is a much needed study of
these camps and is witness to how, sixty years after the events,
expressing this memory remains a complex, sometimes painful
process, and speaking about it a struggle.
In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism,
calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around
the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited
to the Western world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of
de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance. Drawing on research
from experts on memory dynamics across various disciplines, this
extensive collection seeks to make sense of the current state of
de-commemoration as it transforms contemporary societies around the
world.
This journal spin-off special issue publication begins by
approaching the politics of memory with focus on the governance and
policies of memory: its administrations. The contributions focus on
transcending methodological nationalism and bringing back the state
into the study of the politics of memory. The chapters treat the
administrations of memory both in terms of the processes of
dispensing or aiding memory and as the state bodies that are
authorized and expected to manage memory. This text appeals to
researchers and students working in and at the intersection of
memory studies and political science. Previously published in
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 32,
issue 2, June 2019 Chapters Administrations of Memory and modes of
Remembering: Some Comments on the Special Issue and Stretching
selves Through Empathy: the Role of Collective and Official
Memories are available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This book provides a fresh perspective on the familiar belief that
memory policies are successful in building peaceful societies.
Whether in a stable democracy or in the wake of a violent political
conflict, this book argues that memory policies are unhelpful in
preventing hate, genocide, and mass crimes. Since the 1990s,
transmitting the memory of violent pasts has been utilised in
attempts to foster tolerance and fight racism, hate and
antisemitism. However, countries that invested in memory policies
have overseen the rise of hate crimes and populisms instead of
growing social cohesion. Breaking with the usual moralistic
position, this book takes stock of this situation. Where do these
memory policies come from? Whom do they serve? Can we make them
more effective? In other words, can we really learn from the past?
At a time when memory studies is blooming, this book questions the
normative belief in the effects of memory.
On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from
the concentration camp at Drancy to the Levitan furniture store
building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of
three satellite camps (Levitan, Austerlitz, Bassano) in Paris.
Between July 1943 and August 1944, nearly eight hundred prisoners
spent a few weeks to a year in one of these buildings, previously
been used to store furniture, and were subjected to forced labor.
Although the history of the persecution and deportation of France's
Jews is well known, the three Parisian satellite camps have been
subjected to the silence of both memory and history. This lack of
attention by the most authoritative voices on the subject can
perhaps be explained by the absence of a collective memory or by
the marginal status of the Parisian detainees - the spouses of
Aryans, wives of prisoners of war, half-Jews. Still, the Parisian
camps did, and continue to this day, lack simple and
straightforward descriptions. This book is a much needed study of
these camps and is witness to how, sixty years after the events,
expressing this memory remains a complex, sometimes painful
process, and speaking about it a struggle.
This volume considers the uses and misuses of the memory of
assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in
local, national, and transnational contexts. History of this aid
has drawn the attention of scholars and the general public alike.
Stories of heroic citizens who hid and rescued Jewish men, women,
and children have been adapted into books, films, plays, public
commemorations, and museum exhibitions. Yet, emphasis on the
uplifting narratives often obscures the history of violence and
complicity with Nazi policies of persecution and mass murder. Each
of the ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection is dedicated
to a different country: Belarus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
The case studies provide new insights into what has emerged as one
of the most prominent and visible trends in recent Holocaust memory
and memory politics. While many of the essays focus on recent
developments, they also shed light on the evolution of this
phenomenon since 1945.
This volume considers the uses and misuses of the memory of
assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in
local, national, and transnational contexts. History of this aid
has drawn the attention of scholars and the general public alike.
Stories of heroic citizens who hid and rescued Jewish men, women,
and children have been adapted into books, films, plays, public
commemorations, and museum exhibitions. Yet, emphasis on the
uplifting narratives often obscures the history of violence and
complicity with Nazi policies of persecution and mass murder. Each
of the ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection is dedicated
to a different country: Belarus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece,
North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
The case studies provide new insights into what has emerged as one
of the most prominent and visible trends in recent Holocaust memory
and memory politics. While many of the essays focus on recent
developments, they also shed light on the evolution of this
phenomenon since 1945.
The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis'
greed. The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and
drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie
about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have
brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery
was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards,
ordinary Parisian Jews—mostly poor families and recent immigrants
from Eastern Europe—were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings,
but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets. Witnessing the
Robbing of the Jews tells how this vast enterprise of plunder was
implemented in the streets of Paris by analyzing images from an
album of photographs found in the Federal Archives of Koblenz.
Brought from Paris in 1945, the photographs were cataloged by the
staff of the Munich Central Collecting Point. Beyond bearing
witness to the petty acts of larceny, these images provide crucial
information on how the Germans saw their work. They enable us to
grasp the "Nazi gaze" and to confront the issue of the relation
between greed and mass destruction.
Every genocide in history has been notable for the minority of
brave individuals and groups who put their own lives at risk to
rescue its would be victims. Based on three case studies - the
genocides of the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandese Tutsi - this
book is the first international comparative and multidisciplinary
attempt to make rescue an object of research, while breaking free
of the notion of 'The Righteous Among the Nations'. The result is
an exceptionally rich and disturbing volume. While it is impossible
to distill or describe what makes an individual into a rescuer,
acts of rescue reveal a historical fact: the existence of an
informal, underground network of rescuers - however fragile - as
soon as genocides get underway, and in every geographical and
social context.
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