The Holocaust and the cinematic landscapes of postmemory in Lithuania, Hungary and Ukraine

ENIn recent years Holocaust documentaries have focused with consistency on the complex network of connections between personal and collective histories inherent to postgenerational journeys to ancestral homes or to the sites of the destruction of the Jews of Eastern Europe. This chapter follows three of these journeys and the documentary accounts of the itineraries of three travellers: a news reporter who is searching for her grandfather's house in Lithuania, an estranged Hassidic woman who is looking for an old couch in Hungary and a Roman Catholic priest who is following the footsteps of his grandfather to Ukraine. By means of familial connections with the past, these travellers explore landscapes characterised by profound absences and their journeys to Eastern Europe aim at exhuming and unlocking memories of the annihilated Jewish communities of these three countries. [...].