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, 2020 Written by Yahali Beinart Yad Vashem: Denkmal für Mordechaj Anielewicz auf dem Warschauer-Ghetto-Platz „No act of jewish resistance during the Holocaust fired the imagination quite as much as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943.
Stephan Lehnstaedt
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The memory politics of Cursed Soldiers, antisemitism and racialisation
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 1289-1303, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper examines the relationship between racism and the memory politics of the anti‐communist underground in Poland. It explores a covert antisemitism behind the conservative nationalist hegemonic project of transforming the anti‐communist underground into the ideologically charged symbol of the Cursed Soldiers.
Krzysztof Jaskulowski, Piotr Majewski
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American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 419-430, August 2023., 2023 Abstract When Czechs consider their involvement in the global colonial system, they usually imagine themselves as the victims of Soviet imperial power. This is the case among those Czech anthropologists whose research under state socialism was tightly circumscribed.
Ema Hrešanová
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Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 167-179, June 2023., 2023 Abstract When Holocaust survivor Anna Langfus (1920–1966) left Poland for France in 1946, she broke all ties with her home country. French became her language of choice for the three novels she published between 1960 and 1965, and she never used Polish at home nor taught it to her only daughter.
France Grenaudier‐Klijn
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GOVERNING MIGRATION THROUGH SMALL TOWNS: Dispersal and the Production of Spaces of Transit
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 349-367, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Based on qualitative long‐term fieldwork conducted in a peripherally located small town in East Germany, this article compares the dispersal of repatriates from the former Soviet Union with that of recent refugee arrivals. It shows that in this small town the dispersal and local governance of refugees builds on previous approaches to dealing ...
Rene Kreichauf
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Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 236-241, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Purpose During World War II, scientific studies were conducted in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw (Poland). This research, focusing on hunger‐induced disease, was embedded in circumstances of omnipresent hunger and starvation. Ophthalmologist Szymon Fajgenblat (1900–1944) was one of the involved physicians and wrote a manuscript about ...
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“You gotta give them hope”: A structural psychobiography of Harvey Milk (1930–1978)
Journal of Personality, Volume 91, Issue 1, Page 105-119, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Objective In this psychobiographical study, we examined the life and times of social change agent Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay public officials in the United States. Milk is remembered as a gay hero who fought for the rights of marginalized people, often by invoking the importance of hope.
Nic M. Weststrate, Kate C. McLean
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 707-725, December 2022., 2022 How can historians untangle the dynamics between intentional religious belief, inherited cultural practices and the numerous contexts (social, cultural, political) that outline relationships between religious majorities and religious minorities? This paper uses the exceptionally complex past of east central Europe in the modern period (and the 1930s ...
Sarah A. Cramsey
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IMPLICATED GAMING: CHOICE AND COMPLICITY IN LUDIC HOLOCAUST MEMORY
History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 134-151, December 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Holocaust memorial sites and institutions have begun to embrace new media and digital technologies as methods of communication, public engagement, and memorialization. Despite increasing numbers of interactive digital media projects focused on Holocaust education, there is a significant gulf between the topics addressed by digital Holocaust ...
TAMIKA GLOUFTSIS
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‘Go Tell the Spartans, Passerby’: Whom to Remember Ahead of Whom?
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 825-840, November 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT The dead are among us. We are reminded of their names through the books we read, the hoovers we buy, the sandwiches we consume, the tarmac we travel on, the wellingtons we wear, or, frequently, the buildings we visit. Even if we settled on the criteria for being worthy of commemoration, what should we do about the fact that there seem to be so
Zofia Stemplowska
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