Holocaust monuments and memorials in Central Europe / edited by Eva Janacova.
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Berlin : De Gruyter, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | vi, 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | De Gruyter series in holocaust studies and antisemitism De Gruyter series in holocaust studies and antisemitism. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1Introduction / Eva Janáčová -- 7Names, Names and Yet More Names? The Pinkas Synagogue in Prague / Eva Janáčová -- 41Cemeteries and the Presentation of the Past in Terezín: The Formation and Transformation of Diverse Types of Memory / Jiří Holý -- 59An Overlooked Victim of Normalization: Abandoned Plans for the Development of Commemorative Sites in Terezín and Litoměřice from 1968 / Jakub Hauser -- 85Between Heaven and Earth: The Radicalism of Aleš Veselý's Designs for the Terezín Memorial / Monika Čejková -- 101A Still, Small Voice: The Power of Humility in Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine / Deborah Johnson -- 111Urban Memory of the Holocaust from Communism to Civic Activism: The Case of Wrocław / Nicolas Dreyer -- 141An Ephemeral Monument for the Trauma of the Place: The Warsaw Ghetto and Joanna Rajkowska's Oxygenator / Jan Elantkowski -- 157Martyr Memorials Erected by Jewish Communities in Rural Hungary Between 1945 and 1956 / Viktória Bányai, Kinga Frojimovics -- 175Under the Wings of Archangel Gabriel: New Holocaust Memorials in Budapest / András Szécsényi -- 189Who Is a Holocaust Memorial For? Two Memorials in Berlin-Schöneberg / Linda Mannheim -- 205Excavating the Present: Micha Ullman's Library and Counter-Monumental Spaces / Meital Raz -- 223Against the National Narrative? Commemorating the Genocide of German Sinti and Roma in Berlin-Marzahn and Jena / Leonard Stöcklein -- 239Different Paths to Dignified Remembrance: Memorials to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Lety and Hodonín in the Czech Republic / Anna Míšková |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Janacova, Eva. Holocaust Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2025 9783111580579 |
| ISBN | 9783111580029 |
| ISBN | 3111580024 hardbound |
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