Cemeteries and the Presentation of the Past in Terezín: The Formation and Transformation of Diverse Types of Memory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Names, Names and Yet More Names? The Pinkas Synagogue in Prague 7
5. Cemeteries and the Presentation of the Past in Terezín: The Formation and Transformation of Diverse Types of Memory 41
6. An Overlooked Victim of Normalization: Abandoned Plans for the Development of Commemorative Sites in Terezín and Litoměřice from 1968 59
7. Between Heaven and Earth: The Radicalism of Aleš Veselý’s Designs for the Terezín Memorial 85
8. A Still, Small Voice: The Power of Humility in Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine 101
9. Urban Memory of the Holocaust from Communism to Civic Activism: The Case of Wrocław 111
10. An Ephemeral Monument for the Trauma of the Place: The Warsaw Ghetto and Joanna Rajkowska’s Oxygenator 141
11. Martyr Memorials Erected by Jewish Communities in Rural Hungary Between 1945 and 1956 157
12. Under the Wings of Archangel Gabriel: New Holocaust Memorials in Budapest 175
13. Who Is a Holocaust Memorial For? Two Memorials in Berlin-Schöneberg 189
14. Excavating the Present: Micha Ullman’s Library and Counter-Monumental Spaces 205
15. Against the National Narrative? Commemorating the Genocide of German Sinti and Roma in Berlin-Marzahn and Jena 223
16. Different Paths to Dignified Remembrance: Memorials to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Lety and Hodonín in the Czech Republic 239
17. Sources and Literature
18. List of Abbreviations
19. List of Contributors
20. Index of Names