dc.contributor.author
Pietrasik, Agata
dc.date.accessioned
2023-08-15T11:21:27Z
dc.date.available
2023-08-15T11:21:27Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/40500
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-40221
dc.description.abstract
This article reconstructs and analyses the spaces and visual narratives of two particularly important early exhibitions organized by Holocaust survivors: the one at the Jewish Pavilion in the former Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin (September 1946), and ‘Unzer Veg in der Frayheyt’ (Our Path to Freedom) made in the displaced persons camp in Bergen-Belsen (July 1947).
Located in one of the barracks of the former concentration camp, the Jewish Pavilion in Majdanek was one of the first public commemorative sites expressing Jewish memory of the war in Poland. While presenting a history of the Holocaust, the display also established a space for mourning. ‘Our Path to Freedom’ was created on the occasion of the Second Congress of Liberated Jews in the British Zone. It also presented the Holocaust, while at the same time imagining the future life of survivors in Eretz Israel. Together, these exhibitions demonstrate the heterogeneity of Holocaust memory of that time. They pose questions about different ways of narrating history, pointing to exhibitions as a significant medium, while allowing for a combination of visual and spatial means of representation in order to create a multifaceted narrative about the past.
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dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subject
Displaced persons camp Germany
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dc.subject
Holocaust memory
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dc.subject
visual culture
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dc.subject
exhibition studies
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dc.subject.ddc
900 Geschichte und Geografie::900 Geschichte::900 Geschichte und Geografie
dc.title
Exhibiting the Holocaust at the Majdanek Concentration Camp and the Bergen-Belsen DP Camp
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1080/25785648.2023.2210939
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
The Journal of Holocaust Research
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
3: Exhibiting the Holocaust in the Immediate Postwar Period: Histories, Practices and Politics - Part 1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
271
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
296
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
37 (2023)
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1080/25785648.2023.2210939
refubium.affiliation
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
refubium.funding
Taylor Francis
refubium.note.author
Open Access Funding provided by Freie Universität Berlin.
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refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.issn
2578-5648
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2578-5656