Search for dissertations about: "remembrance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word remembrance.

2. 1. The Quest for Recognition : The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65

   Author : Johannes Heuman; Pär Frohnert; Claudia Lenz; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; France; Holocaust; remembrance; historical culture; narrative; use of history; republicanism; universalism; Jewish identity; historicisation; Europeanisation; antisemitism; Vichy; CDJC; Mémorial de la Shoah; Tombeau du Martyr Juif Inconnu; History; historia;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the development of Holocaust remembrance in France, taking the activities of the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine in Paris as its focus. By looking at the construction, function, and reception of Holocaust narratives in the twenty years following the end of the War, it shows how remembrance took shape within French historical culture, and, conversely, how representations of the genocide influenced France’s national-historical culture. READ MORE

4. 2. A Mention to Those not Mentioned : Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008

   Author : Lior Becker; Tomislav Dulić; Lars M Andersson; Tim Cole; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Israel; USA; Holocaust memory; collective memory; Yizkor books; commemoration; remembrance; memory culture; Historia; History;

   Abstract : Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. READ MORE

5. 3. Painful legacy of World War II: Nazi forced enlistment : Alsatian/Mosellan Prisoners of War and the Soviet Prison Camp of Tambov

   Author : Florence Fröhlig; Mats Lindqvist; Barbro Blehr; Susanne Nylund Skog; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Legacy of World War II; forced conscription; prisoners of war; Alsace Moselle; Soviet prison camp; internment; captivity; Tambov; traumatic experiences; construction of silence; family of remembrance; master narrative; pilgrimage; dark tourism; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Abstract : This dissertation concerns the legacy of the Nazi forced enlistment during World War II and focuses more precisely on the case of Alsace/Moselle. Many of these French men, enlisted by force from 1942 in the German army, were sent to the Eastern Front and experienced Soviet prison camps. READ MORE

6. 4. Heroes and Victims : The Holocaust in Israeli Historical Consciousness

   Author : Mikael Tossavainen; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish-Gentile relations; victimhood; heroism; Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day; press; use of history; historical culture; historical consciousness; Israel; Holocaust; History; Historia; Contemporary history since 1914 ; Nutidshistoria från 1914 ;

   Abstract : The interest in the Holocaust has been growing continuously over the last decades, and this study deals with how the Holocaust has been perceived, interpreted and used in an Israeli context. The central theoretical concept in this study is historical consciousness, and the aim is to analyze the place of the Holocaust in Israeli historical consciousness. READ MORE

7. 5. Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus' Annales : A Contextual Analysis

   Author : Aske Damtoft Poulsen; Latin; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philology; Classics; Roman Literature; Classical Historiography; Tacitus; Intertextuality;

   Abstract : The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but also a literary artist second to none. His fragmentarily preserved Annales deals with the imperial rule established by the first emperor Augustus, the Julio-Claudian dynasty (AD 14 – 68). READ MORE