Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen: Geschichtspolitik zwischen der ‚Anrufung Europas‘ und dem Fokus auf ‚unser‘ Leid

Memorial museums are understood as flagships of the respective country’s memory politics – in the context of transnational processes. How do big, publicly (co-)funded memorial museums that (re-)opened after 1989 in the eleven post-Communist EU member states exhibit the World War II period? Beyond a mere overview of the museum and their history the book analyzes how ‚double‘ and ‚tripple‘ occupation, Holocaust, victimhood and collaboration are represented in the permanent exhibitions and which role EU accession talks and authoritarian tendencies played and play in this.Im Vordergrund der Studie steht das Gedenkmuseum als Flaggschiff der Geschichtspolitik des jeweiligen Landes im Kontext transnationaler Prozesse. Wie wird die Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs in großen, öffentlich (mit )finanzierten Gedenkmuseen, die nach 1989 (wieder )eröffnet wurden, in den elf ‚osteuropäischen‘ EU-Mitgliedsländern repräsentiert? Über den Überblick über die Museen und ihre Entstehungsgeschichte hinausgehend wurde untersucht, wie ‚doppelte‘ bzw. ‚dreifache‘ Okkupation und der Holocaust, Opfernarrative und Kollaboration in den ständigen Ausstellungen verhandelt werden und welche Auswirkungen die EU-Beitrittsbemühungen und autoritäre Tendenzen auf dieses Aushandeln hatten und haben

"People of freedom and unlimited movement": representations of Roma in post-communist memorial museums

The "universalization of the Holocaust" and the insistence on Roma rights as an EU accession criteria have changed the memory of the Roma genocide in post-communist countries. This article examines how Roma are represented in post-communist memorial museums which wanted to prove that they correspond with "European memory standards". The three case studies discussed here are the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising, the Jasenovac Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. I argue that today Roma are being represented for the first time, but in a stereotypical way and through less prominent means in exhibitions which lack individualizing elements like testimonies, photographs from their life before the persecution or artifacts. This can only partially be explained by the (relative) unavailability of data that is often deplored by researchers of the Roma genocide

Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen: Geschichtspolitik zwischen der ‚Anrufung Europas‘ und dem Fokus auf ‚unser‘ Leid

Memorial museums are understood as flagships of the respective country’s memory politics – in the context of transnational processes. How do big, publicly (co-)funded memorial museums that (re-)opened after 1989 in the eleven post-Communist EU member states exhibit the World War II period? Beyond a mere overview of the museum and their history the book analyzes how ‚double‘ and ‚tripple‘ occupation, Holocaust, victimhood and collaboration are represented in the permanent exhibitions and which role EU accession talks and authoritarian tendencies played and play in this

Rezension zu: Todor Kuljic, Umkämpfte Vergangenheiten. Die Kultur der Erinnerung im postjugoslawischen Raum

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