Holocaust Remembrance as âCivil Religionâ

Allwork, Larissa

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“…Once Holocaust remembrance became the flagship of a common and unifying European culture of remembrance—the European “founding” myth and even an “entry ticket” to the civilized world at the turn of the 20th century (Judt 2005, 803–804)—new Holocaust memorial museums strove to surpass national boundaries. They began to function as exemplary front runners, dynamically staking out a universal reputation (Allwork 2015). However, this often served the purpose of political appropriation or exculpation, with genuine memory commitment lagging behind (Stańczyk 2016, 418; Subotić 2019, 25–30).…”

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The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?

Karasová

Králová²

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article explores the political and discursive framing of the emerging project Holocaust Museum of Greece (HMG) based in Thessaloniki (announced in 2013). As an “in situ” Holocaust museum, the HMG could represent an important step toward recognizing Jewish suffering in a country where—compared with the rest of Europe—unprecedentedly high levels of antisemitic attitudes have been recorded over the past decade. Supported by a qualitative media analysis and supplemented with data from our online survey, we explore how HMG stakeholders and potential local visitors reflect on the project. Occurring amid contemporary endeavors in Holocaust commemoration and Greek-German reconciliation, we connect it with their persistence in combating far-right tendencies and antisemitism. Specifically, we investigate whose memory HMG stakeholders aim to display, how they reflect on dominant Greek historical narratives and whether they express a clear memory commitment and a genuine effort to produce a more integrated historical interpretation of the Holocaust in Greece.

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The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?

Karasová

Králová²

2022

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“…Thus, preventing further crimes of this kind became a matter of urgency. 15 Apart from Sweden, other founding countries of the ITF were Great Britain and the United States of America, joined soon after by Germany and Israel and followed in 1999 by France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland. The Stockholm Forum was the fi rst major international event organised under the auspices of the ITF.…”

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The ‘Righteous’ as an Element of Transnational Memory Politics: The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust and the Memory of the Rescue of Jews during the Second World War

Wóycicka

2022

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In the last two decades, the topic of help given to Jews during the Second World War has experienced an extraordinary boom in Europe and beyond. Transnational and intergovernmental organisations such as the Council of Europe, the European Parliament and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) have played an essential role in promoting this subject. This paper shows that the first big event to introduce the category of the Righteous into transnational memory politics was the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust (2000). Researchers have described the conference as a significant step toward the ‘institutionalisation of a European memory’ and promoting a self-critical, victim-centred, future-oriented and highly personalised Holocaust remembrance. I argue that it was precisely the universalisation of the Holocaust and the notion of a wide-ranging implication of European societies in the genocide, which paved the way for the rescue narratives. However, as this paper demonstrates, the participants in the conference defined the Righteous differently and invoked them for divergent purposes.

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Holocaust Remembrance as âCivil Religionâ

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The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?

The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?

The ‘Righteous’ as an Element of Transnational Memory Politics: The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust and the Memory of the Rescue of Jews during the Second World War

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