Emlékállítás és felejtés. A „málenkij robot” emlékezete a szatmári sváboknál

Abstract

Commemorative practices and oblivion mechanism. The memory of the deportations of the Satu Mare Swabians) In 1945, a series of violent events took place, bringing the greatest individual and collective trauma in the history of the Satu Mare Swabians. The paper presents the various communication situations in which deportation narratives were drafted and transmitted. I wanted to reveal all the channels in which the commemoration of the deportations (both private and public) took/take place, paying special attention to changes in commemoration forms, as historical phenomena, and also making a comparison between the approaches in the Swabian villages from Romania and Hungary. In commemorating practicesof the deportations I distinguished four levels: individual memory, memory of generations, communicative memory and collective memory, all four having different functions and contexts