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Forming a Common European Memory of WWII from a Peripheral Perspective: Anthropological Insight into the Struggle for Recognition of Estonians’ WWII Memories in Europe

, 2016
Inge Melchior
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Shadows Beneath the Sun: Ethical Memory, Critical Humanism, and WWII Chongqing in Luo Weizhang’s Novel

Humanities
Luo Weizhang’s novel Under the Sun centers on a fictionalized writer who reconstructs the life of protagonist Huang Xiaoyang through encounters with his literary remains and the memories of those who knew him personally.
Qian Liu
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The Ambiguities of Amending Historical Injustices and Espousing a Shared Collective Memory: The WWII Forced Labour Narratives in Germany and Japan

State Crime, 2020
This paper examines WWII forced labour memory politics in Germany and Japan by drawing from Barkan’s concept of amending historical injustices. After lengthy negotiations, Germany reached in 2000 a milestone agreement compensating victims individually ...
Patrick Hein
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Silence, Distortion, or Discrimination? Roma Memories and Norwegian Memory Politics of WWII

Humanities
The Nazi genocide had devastating consequences for Norwegian Jews and Romas. However, their experiences and memories have been treated very differently in Norway with respect to official recognition and public attention.
Anette Homlong Storeide
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Memory Assaults against Oblivion: Contrasting the Memory of Border Shifts in Cieszyn Silesia, Orawa, Spisz

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Studia Territorialia
This paper focuses on the memoryscapes of Cieszyn Silesia, Orawa and Spisz in a context of the border conflicts of the twentieth century. The regions located on the current Czech-Polish and Slovak-Polish border have lived through paralleled histories of ...
Ondřej Elbel
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Children’s Books on WWII within the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora [PDF]

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 2021
The article deals with the issue of World War II (WWII) in the books for children by the Ukrainian Diaspora of the twentieth century. Along with other works on WWII theme in world literature, books by Ukrainian Diasporic writers for children and young ...
M. Vardanian
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Memory is a Weapon: Ton Steine Scherben’s Use of WWII Memory in the Political Upheavals of the 1970s [PDF]

Music and Politics, 2021
Sidney König
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Memory and Non-place: Visual Testimonies of Japanese Latin American Internment During WWII

, 2019
This article addresses the little-known history of Japanese Latin American internment during WWII. Classified as ‘illegal aliens’ and ‘enemy aliens’, 2,264 Japanese Latin Americans were stripped of citizenship from their home countries, denied rights in the United States, and ultimately deprived reconciliation due to their undocumented status.
A. Lee
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Jewish Settlement in Shanghai during WWII in Fiction and Other Media of Cultural Memory [PDF]

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 2021
:From 1938 to 1945, Shanghai was a temporary haven to more than 20,000 Jews originally from Europe. Most of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai survived to see the end of WWII.
Junsong Chen
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The Atomic Bomb and the Birth of Manga: Collective Memory in Post-WWII Japan

, 2021
Bethany Harris
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