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Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe
About this book
Holocaust monuments in Central Europe, especially in today's Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Germany, have received surprisingly little academic attention. Yet these sites of memory offer deep insight into the individual, collective and cultural memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
The first Holocaust monuments were created shortly after the end of the Second World War. At first, they were monuments and memorials commemorating Jewish victims, but later, stone reminders of the Roma victims of the Holocaust were added. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, a second wave of Holocaust monuments and memorials took place in Central Europe, continuing to this day. The aim of this publication is to present both the historical and artistic circumstances of the creation of these Holocaust monuments and memorials, as well as their subsequent reception. In a broader social and cultural context, the emphasis is placed on the formation of Jewish and Roma identity in Central Europe.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Names, Names and Yet More Names? The Pinkas Synagogue in Prague
- Cemeteries and the Presentation of the Past in Terezín: The Formation and Transformation of Diverse Types of Memory
- An Overlooked Victim of Normalization: Abandoned Plans for the Development of Commemorative Sites in Terezín and Litoměřice from 1968
- Between Heaven and Earth: The Radicalism of Aleš Veselý’s Designs for the Terezín Memorial
- A Still, Small Voice: The Power of Humility in Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine
- Urban Memory of the Holocaust from Communism to Civic Activism: The Case of Wrocław
- An Ephemeral Monument for the Trauma of the Place: The Warsaw Ghetto and Joanna Rajkowska’s Oxygenator
- Martyr Memorials Erected by Jewish Communities in Rural Hungary Between 1945 and 1956
- Under the Wings of Archangel Gabriel: New Holocaust Memorials in Budapest
- Who Is a Holocaust Memorial For? Two Memorials in Berlin-Schöneberg
- Excavating the Present: Micha Ullman’s Library and Counter-Monumental Spaces
- Against the National Narrative? Commemorating the Genocide of German Sinti and Roma in Berlin-Marzahn and Jena
- Different Paths to Dignified Remembrance: Memorials to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Lety and Hodonín in the Czech Republic
- List of Abbreviations
- Index of Names