Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979, Jonathan Huener (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004), 352 pp., cloth 44.95, pbk. 24.95
In this important work, Jonathan Huener relates the history of Auschwitz in postwar Poland. The book’s main story is about the memorialization of the camp, from its liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 to Pope John Paul II’s mass at Birkenau in 1979. Huener analyzes the 1947 creation of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 292-295 |
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| Summary: | In this important work, Jonathan Huener relates the history of Auschwitz in postwar Poland. The book’s main story is about the memorialization of the camp, from its liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 to Pope John Paul II’s mass at Birkenau in 1979. Huener analyzes the 1947 creation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and traces the changes in exhibitions and other museum practices through the years. He invites readers on a virtual tour of the former camp’s alleys and state-sponsored commemorative rituals. He grounds all of this in the distinctive Polish sociocultural and political context of that period. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci025 |