Current discourses on the Holocaust in Lithuania: the impact of collective memory
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Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
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Knygos / Books
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Anglų kalba / English
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Current discourses on the Holocaust in Lithuania: the impact of collective memory
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Saarbrücken : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010.
Pages:
134 p
Contents:
Acknowledgements — Abbreviations — Index of figures — Introduction: Scope of the study; Research questions; Hypotheses; Methodology; Chapter outline — Collective memory — The history of collective memory studies: Maurice Halbwachs; Pierre Nora; Aleida and Jan Assmann — Capturing collective memory — The rise of memory as a crisis of history? — The role of the historian — Problems in memory studies — Transnational memory places — Holocaust remembrance — Explaining the inexplicable: The intentionalist approach; The functionalist approach; The necessity of openness — Different cultures of holocaust remembrance: Austria; France; Germany; Israel; Soviet Union; United States; Central and Eastern Europe — Memory in a transition period — The holocaust in Lithuania (1941-1944) — Situation of pre-WWII Lithuania — The Soviet occupation interlude — Operation Barbarossa — The destruction of the Lithuanian Jewry: The persecution of Jews (22 June - July 1941); Mass killings of all Jews (August - December 1941); The "Calmer Period" (January 1942 - March 1943); The final liquidation (April 1943 -July 1944) — Soviet liberation vs. Soviet occupation — Holocaust remembrance in Lithuania — Historical reception of the holocaust in Lithuania: The time of silence (until 1990); Not yet ready to deal with the past (1991-1995); The peak of attention (1995-2005); A non-issue (since 2006) — Dealing with the past: Two schools of Lithuanian's holocaust historians; Debate about numbers; The establishment of the international commission — Collective memory of the holocaust in Lithuania: Official remembrance; The neglect to remember; War criminals; Holocaust education; WWII counter-memories; The "KGB museum"; What to remember? — The thesis of two genocides — Ugly debates: The affair with the daily Respublika; Jewish partisans; Nazi parade; Restitution — A European collective memory? — Conclusions — Bibl.
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9783639317879
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