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Places, spaces and the memory of migration. Remembering in a (post-)migrant society This contribution deals with the invisibility of migration history in the memory landscape of Austria. We discuss the collective amnesia and the social marginalisation of migration histories, especially the history of labour migration since the 1960s in Austrian archives and museums as well as in public space. Drawing on transnational perspectives on history and space and insights from postcolonial theory, we understand the plea for 1) Der vorliegende Aufsatz entstand als Teil des von Dirk Rupnow geleiteten FWF-Projekts P 24468-G18 "Deprovincializing Contemporary Austrian History. Migration und die transnationalen Herausforderungen an nationale Historiographien (ca. 1960-heute)" am Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck (11/2012-10/2016) und des ebenfalls vom FWF geförderten Elise-Richter-Projektes V 186-G18 "Lieux de Mémoire of Migration in Urban Spaces: the Example of Vienna" von Christiane hInteRmann am Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung der Universität Wien.

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Some scholars have suggested that the Nazis planned not only to exterminate the Jews physically, but to erase them from the very historical record. But the collection and exhibition activities of Jewish scholars working under the direction of the SS in occupied Prague undermine such arguments, the author asserts. The establishment of the Jewish Central Museum—by which preservation and documentation were associated with looting and extermination—implies a different understanding of the nature and role of memory in the Third Reich.