Offering a blended form of collaborative and personal reflections, Dawn Smith and Helga Thorson discuss how their lives intersected through the I-witness Field School, a course on Holocaust memorialization offered by the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. Contemplating what is remembered and what is forgotten not only in the context of collective and cultural memory but also through the realm of education, the authors of this article draw on Michael Rothberg’s notion of multidirectional memory and Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory to advocate for a multidirectional and intergenerational education that leads to social change.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.