"Germany's changing historical memory of World War II and its aftermath, as reflected in the official and public remembrance of the German war dead, exposes an unresolved tension between a discourse of guilt and a discourse of national suffering and victimization. In Germany, under the auspices of the Allied occupation, remembrance honored the victims of the Nazis and those who had fought against the ...

"This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and death of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational and comparative way. Using the concept of 'sites of the dictators', the author explains why is it so difficult to deal with some sites of memory linked to dead autocrats and discusses the potential of the ...

In 1962, a Hiroshima peace delegation and an Auschwitz survivor's organization exchanged relics and testimonies, including the bones and ashes of Auschwitz victims. This symbolic encounter, in which the dead were literally conscripted in the service of the politics of the living, serves as a cornerstone of this volume, capturing how memory was utilized to rebuild and redefine a shattered world. This ...

"During recent decades, forensic investigation has become a standard response to the reality of mass graves resulting from genocides and various forms of political violence. From Argentina to Rwanda, from former Yugoslavia to Poland, the search for the sites of mass burial, the application of archaeological and forensic practices, and the use of advanced technologies to collect and analyse evidence ...

Subject: Preface; Introduction: through the fog of war, Pierre Purseigle; Generations and the ruptures of 1918, 1945 and 1989 in Germany / Mary Fulbrook; Times of death: the Great War and Serbia's 20th century / John Paul Newman; Politicising commemoration in 20th-century Latvia / Geoffrey Swain; Pluralism and the problem with collective memory: Japanese peace and war museums in a comparative context ...

"In Disturbing Remains, ten extraordinary scholars focus on the remembrance and representation of traumatic historical events in the twentieth century. The volume opens with essays by David William Cohen, Veena Das, and Philip Gourevitch. Their reflections on the narratives framing Robert Ouko's death in Kenya, Sikh-Hindu violence in India around the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and the 1994 ...

Fonds consist of series of administration documents, minutes of meetings, correspondence, standing committees (including United Jewish Appeal), ad hoc committees and agencies and institutions. BOX 1 - Series: Minutes Organizational Meeting Minutes - 1934: Documents pertaining to the creation of an Ottawa Vaad Ha'Ir, as favoured unanimously by the Vaad Hakashruth. Minutes - Quarterly, General, Special ...

"An old tennis racket, a skating medal, one monogrammed cigarette case: newly discovered mementoes of a life - of a relative no one talked about. For more than 40 years, Aletta Stevens knew very little about Johannes (Joop) Doedenias Schweitzer, her uncle who died in the Second World War. Starting with a hopeful internet search, she decided to find out what really happened to him. In this book she draws ...

Introduction The "American War," Post-Conflict Landscapes, and Violent Memories. - Chapter 1 National Memorial Sites and Personal Remembrance: Remembering the Dead of Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek at the ECCC in Cambodia / Sina Emde. - Chapter 2 National Lieu de Memoire vs. Multivocal Memories: The Case of Viengxay, Lao PDR / Oliver Tappe. - Chapter 3 War-Martyr Bia: Commemoration and Perdurability in ...