Relating to the Distant Past: Routes of Memory of Women Concentration-Camp Survivors

Datum zveřejnění:

15.12.2017

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.21104/CL.2017.4.04

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Abstrakt:

Personal stories and testimonies of individual survivors are the main compounds of the common narrative of the European trauma of Nazi concentration camps. A variety of individual memories of a certain event contribute to the creation of its collective representation which is then accessible for a wider range of people. Memory is understood as socially determined. Thus the role of in-group relations is crucial for memory-construction, for it is only in social interactions that individuals become aware of memories and localize them. As Maurice Halbwachs argues, there are as many collective memories as there are groups and institutions in society. The relation between a collective memory and a group is reciprocal – both are constituting and constituted at the same time. Departing from the theories of memory and trauma as social constructs, this article examines the processes of remembering of the deportation to a concentration camp and structuring of collective memories.

Klíčová slova

collective memory, communicative memory, cultural memory, trauma, remembering

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