Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
22, 2-3, (2016) 244-255
Schlagwort(e):
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Lublin (Poland)
Kurzfassung:
Explores the ways in which the city of Lublin and the nearby Majdanek concentration camp have been used in films on the Holocaust made by filmmakers from various countries. The city and the death camp were sites of both Jewish and Christian martyrdom (59,000 victims of Majdanek out of a total of 79,000 were Jewish). Nevertheless, the earliest footage of Lublin and Majdanek (from 1944 on) and postwar films that used this footage or were filmed in Lublin portrayed them exclusively as sites of Polish martyrdom, thus neglecting the Holocaust. More recent Western and Israeli films returned the sites to Jewish history and re-established the association between the Holocaust and images of Lublin and Majdanek. However, these images are often used by cinematographers without naming the city and the camp, and sometimes play the role of Warsaw or Vilnius, and even of Paris or some city in wartime Hungary on the screen.
DOI:
10.1080/17504902.2016.1148872
URL:
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