Les jeunes et le génocide des Juifs

Grandjean, Geoffrey

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“…The few studies that have been dedicated to this (de Cock and Heimberg, 2014;Brown, 2014), suggest that certain negative reactions around the teaching of the Holocaust have been documented in France, particularly among young people from Muslim backgrounds living in disadvantaged areas, who see this reminder of the past through the prism of contemporary issues, in particular the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Brenner, 2015). Several studies suggest however that, overall, incidents relating to this teaching remain limited, both in France and elsewhere, in Sweden, Belgium, or Switzerland for example (Bonafoux, de Cock-Pierrepont and Falaize, 2007;Grandjean, 2016;Eckmann and Heimberg, 2011 36 ). Our objective here is not to judge the accuracy of these different conclusions, nor to support or condemn the possible rejections of the moralistic teaching of history and its lessons.…”

Section: School Memories: Social "Noise" In the Classroommentioning

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Beyond Memory

Gensburger

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2020

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

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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 largely unhelpful in preventing hate, genocide, and mass crimes. Since the 1990s, transmitting the memory of violent pasts has been used 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.

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Section: School Memories: Social "Noise" In the Classroommentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Memory

Gensburger

Lefranc

2020

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

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“…From a sociological perspective, several authors have detailed the importance of analysing this dialectical relationship between the laws and the memories (Savelsberg and King, 2007), in particular, from the perspective of international law (Hirsch, 2015). Next to purely legal public instruments, the public authorities may also shape collective memories, particularly through educational policies (Grandjean, 2014; Hirsch and Kacandes, 2004; Oeser, 2010).…”

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Official memories and legal constraints: A classification of memory instruments in France and Belgium

Grandjean

2019

Memory Studies

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Public authorities do not have a monopoly over memory constraint in the sense that they are not alone in promoting collective memories. However, the article suggests a classification of the memory instruments in France and Belgium according to the degree of legal constraint (sanctioning, prescriptive and latent). This classification offers a new understanding of the exercise of the legal constraints which are a way for the public authorities to offer specific accounts of certain past events.

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Introducing Research Through Oral Surveys: French Students Meet Witnesses of the Holocaust by Bullets

Courcelle,

Fijalkow,

Victor

2023

Eastern European Holocaust Studies

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French students in the third and final year from the Humanities and Social Sciences license A license is the first national university degree and it is completed in six terms. degree course traveled to Ukraine and Belorussia between 2017 and 2020, in order to carry out surveys of eyewitnesses to the so-called “Holocaust by Bullets.” The subject-matter stands out in the French scholarly scene, as the Holocaust usually attracts little attention at this level of studies. Students registered in the course hail from license degrees in History, Social Sciences or Geography, and have chosen to attend the course labeled “European Historical Heritage and Citizens’ Thoughts” as a complement to a more classical curriculum, and as a way of enhancing their own university curriculum. The research professors involved have also volunteered to participate as authors of the aforementioned multidisciplinary program, with the aim to raise awareness to research practices on the Holocaust. University professors and teams from the Yahad-in-Unum Since its foundation in 2004 by Father Patrick Desbois (2007), having researched Soviet and Nazi Second World War records, the organization has been tirelessly surveying all Eastern European locations associated with the Holocaust by Bullets. It has been collecting villagers’ testimonies supporting the evidence of a genocide, documenting the locations of mass graves, and at times identifying victims. The results of such meticulous research have been made public on an interactive online map displaying the locations of all the mass graves recorded – over 2000 to date – and making the information and testimony relevant to each of the sites available to web users. See [online] https://www.yahadmap.org/%20-%20map/#map/ NGO take turns leading the two-hour weekly sessions. The professors help establish theoretical focus and provide methodological tools, develop lines of investigation on various areas of interest (e.g., mode of operation used in the shootings, collaboration and rescue operations, and neighbors of the crime scene), as well as the context (anti-Semitism, racism, local geopolitics, regional history, culture and society, etc.), while Yahad-in-Unum participants describe actual cases based on records, maps and filmed testimonies. They had the task to provide documents from Soviet and Nazi archives translated from Russian, or from German, and act as translators during fieldwork. Students are encouraged to participate as often as possible and have to prepare analytical reports and presentations following each session, while adopting the position of a researcher.

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Les jeunes et le génocide des Juifs

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Beyond Memory

Official memories and legal constraints: A classification of memory instruments in France and Belgium

Introducing Research Through Oral Surveys: French Students Meet Witnesses of the Holocaust by Bullets

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