The Continuing Agony: From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz, Alan L. Berger, Harry James Cargas, and Susan E. Nowak, eds. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004), xx + 269 pp., pbk. 44.00
The Auschwitz memorial site, since 1947 a charge of the Polish postwar governments, has for more than sixty years served as a site of remembrance, pilgrimage, education, and public demonstration. The site's history, commemorative landscape, exhibitions, and presence since 1979 on UNESCO's...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 317-320 |
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| Summary: | The Auschwitz memorial site, since 1947 a charge of the Polish postwar governments, has for more than sixty years served as a site of remembrance, pilgrimage, education, and public demonstration. The site's history, commemorative landscape, exhibitions, and presence since 1979 on UNESCO's World Heritage List have, as the editors of The Continuing Agony note in their introduction, imbued it with a mission “to preserve the memory of the dead as a warning to the living” (p. xvi). This charge suggests a certain unity of commemorative purpose and practice. Yet, Auschwitz has always been a site of contested memories. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm029 |