Language:
Serbian
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
Graničnici sećanja; jevrejsko nasleđe i Holokaust
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2018) 161-176
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Archives
Abstract:
The present paper off ers an analysis of four different collections of Holocaust testimonies: Yale Fortunoff archive, Oral history and Shoa – now both available inthe United States Holocaust Museum in Washington and We survived, a collectionof Yugoslav Holocaust survivors testimonies. Th e aim of this paper is to comparethese archives and to establish diff erent models of remembering by analysing waysof constructing the narratives around diff erent archives. Th e analysis will show twoprevailing tendencies in remembering the Holocaust, defi ned here as performative-aff ective and historical-epistemological models. Whilst the fi rst model stressesboth specifi c and individual experience of trauma, the second tries to decontextualise the trauma and to establish a particular narrative around it. Th e latter modelwas also recognised and defi ned by many authors as the Americanisation of theHolocaust. Drawing from the works of Wieviorka, Novick, Shandler, Edkins, Rosenfeld, Rabinbach, this paper will show the great infl uence of Americanisation ofthe Holocaust phenomenon in the creation of the local archive We survived. Finally, the analysis will focus on the importance of the specifi c context in creatingthe archive and the role of the local archives as a political tool for resisting thehistorical revisionisms.
Note:
With an English abstract.
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