Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,4 (2020) 417-441
Keywords:
Bor (Concentration camp)
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Jews History 1933-1945
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Jews
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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World War, 1939-1945 Conscript labor
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Forced labor
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Death marches
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Bačka (Serbia and Hungary)
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Bor (Serbia)
Abstract:
Examining various unexplored testimony collections, this article offers an analysis of the forced march of ca. 700 Hungarian Jewish forced laborers from Bor, Serbia, and their murder in the multiethnic town (Serbians and Swabian Germans) of Crvenka, Batschka. Drawing on postwar Yugoslav and West German interrogation transcripts, and 1990s oral history testimonies, it compares the different forms, functions, and conceptualizations of testimony during the postwar period. As it argues, diverse postwar testimonies not only allow for insight into the experiences and reflections of actors involved in Holocaust violence; they also enable historians to critically consider the intersections between postwar judicial procedures, historiographies, and memorial cultures.
DOI:
10.1080/17504902.2019.1678954
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