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Holocaust Memorial in Kavala

Contested Histories Admin — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The erection of a memorial to the 1,484 Jewish residents of Kavala killed during the Holocaust provoked a dispute between Jewish advocates and the City Council, grounded in anti-Semitic rhetoric. The memorial’s unveiling was delayed amidst calls to remove the Star of David from its face, prompting criticism from the international community. Upon its belated unveiling on June 7, 2015, Deputy Minister Panagiotis Sgourdis drew comparisons between the atrocities of World War II and the current situation in Palestine. Since then, the memorial has been vandalised thrice. This case study explores how the attempts to commemorate Kavala’s Jewish victims of the Holocaust caused manifestations of long-rooted anti-Semitism in Greece, triggering the reflexes of the local community.

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Dr Karl Lueger Ring Street in Vienna

Paula — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 10:01:00 +0000

In Vienna, over 160 streets bear the names of controversial historical figures. One of these streets, once called Dr-Karl-Lueger-Ring, was named after a prominent anti-Semitic agitator whose ideology inspired the dogmatic policies of Adolf Hitler. In 2011, an archival report investigated the acts of controversial historical figures with names in public spaces. A year later, the city government of Vienna voted to rename the street Universitätsring. This case study examines the importance and consequences of altering controversial street names in light of revised historical narratives.

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Disputed Historical Legacies: The Case of France

Contested Histories Admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:45:13 +0000

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Jedwabne Pogrom Memorial in Jedwabne

Contested Histories Admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:32:50 +0000

The Jedwabne pogrom memorial was renewed in 2001, following controversies surrounding who the perpetrators of the massacre were. This case study explores moral questions over the commemoration and memory of perpetrators, Poland’s responsibility for the slaughter, and how tragic events such as historical pogroms should be commemorated in the contemporary era. To this day the Jedwabne Memorial and its vital role in uncovering Poland’s tabooed past created a new precedent in the Polish public sphere and remains a site of contested memory that persists to this day.

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Educator Resources & Teaching Strategies

Contested Histories Admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:07:00 +0000

Educational resources include multimedia materials, from primary sources and streaming videos to teaching strategies, lesson plans, and full units. Find resources that will support your students’ learning, whether you are teaching a complex moment in history or addressing today’s breaking news. Topics include history of race, immigration, democracy and civic action, human rights and religion. Find teaching strategies for in-person, hybrid, and remote learning that develop students’ critical thinking and model the skills and dispositions that foster engaged, democratic citizenship.

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Law and Memory

Contested Histories Admin — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:54:00 +0000

Legal governance of memory has played a central role in establishing hegemony of monumental history, and has forged national identities and integration processes in Europe and beyond. In this book, a range of contributors explore both the nature and role of legal engagement into historical memory in selected national law, European and international law. They also reflect on potential conflicts between legal governance, political pluralism, and fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression. In recent years, there have been numerous monumental commemoration practices and judicial trials about correlated events all over the world, and this is a prime opportunity to undertake an important global comparative scrutiny of memory laws. Against the background of mass re-writing of history in different parts of the world, this book revisits a fascinating subject of memory laws from the standpoint of comparative law and transitional justice.

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Post-Communist Poland

Contested Histories Admin — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:40:00 +0000

The book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland and impacts on foreign and domestic policy.

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