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Holoocaust as Local History: Past and Present of a Complex Relation
| Location: | Greece |
| Conference Date: | 2008-06-05 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-05-09 |
| Announcement ID: |
162339 |
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Holocaust as Local History:
Past and Present of a Complex Relation
June 5 - 8, 2008
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
The conference seeks to examine one of the most crucial aspects of the Jewish Genocide, the way in which it was implemented in specific local contexts and in interaction with local communities. The focus will not only be on the actual events of the Genocide but also on its aftermath. The conference will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, a city of great symbolic importance to Sephardic Jewry.
Until recently, local contexts were a relatively understudied aspect of the Genocide. It took many decades to realize that many 'ordinary' people were involved –in a variety of ways- in the Genocide, and that their role was much more significant than previously thought. The Holocaust historiography has developed a broader agenda that looks into the role of actors such as collaborators, bystanders, local churches, resistance organizations, and others, in their diverse participation in the genocide or the rescue of Jewish populations.
Looking back at the Holocaust and dealing with its most immediate consequences proved to be complicated endeavor in postwar Europe. National priorities, antisemitism, the Cold War, a multitude of local conflicts and interests, and the constraints of collective memory among others, complicated and even impeded the return of surviving Jews in the places they were expelled from. Furthermore, the public perception and collective memory of these events became fragmented, ambivalent, and selective. In certain cases, silence and amnesia seem to have been the decisive elements of the (non) recollection of the Jewish presence.
for full program and info visit: http:///www.yale.edu/macmillan/hsp/
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