Constructing a Usable Past: Changing Memory Politics in Jasenovac Memorial Museum

Zaremba, Alexandra

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“…117 In Croatia, previous work on the Europeanization of memory shows its failure at the state level, inadvertently fueling the rise of nationalist sentiments and using the antitotalitarianism memory regime to erase the history of socialist Yugoslavia. 118 Nevertheless, in terms of sites, the discussion in civil society evoked European expectations. The Europeanization of memory involves the process of creating both sites of memory of the Holocaust (the 'first' European memory trope), as well as for communist crimes (thus mirroring the other former communist countries that accessed the European Union).…”

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Difficult Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Local and Transnational Entanglements in Memorializing Political Prisons after Socialism

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2023

Journal of Contemporary History

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Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, various governments supported the creation of memorial museums of political violence during state socialism. While much scholarly attention has been given to Hungary’s House of Terror and the Baltic museums of occupations, this article examines the contrasting situation in Southeastern Europe, where state actors were generally absent and which witnessed relatively belated and overwhelmingly bottom-up processes. The article analyses the particularity of political prisons as ‘difficult heritage’. It scrutinizes the commonalities and entanglements between the memorialization of political prisons in three Southeastern European countries marked by distinctive trajectories both during and after communism: Albania (Spaç), Romania (Sighet and Piteşti), and Croatia (Goli Otok). The article shows how in the absence of state-level policies to address transitional justice, activism surrounding difficult heritage memorialization has aimed to fill the gap. It also argues that the relationship between site memorialization in Southeastern Europe and the wider European models is doubly constitutive: first, the memorialization of Sighet in 1990s Romania borrowed approaches from Western European Holocaust memorialization, then shaped a European wide set of best practices; second, a wave of new memorial initiatives after 2010 in Southeastern Europe was connected to the Europeanization of memory and transnational engagements.

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confidence: 99%

Difficult Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Local and Transnational Entanglements in Memorializing Political Prisons after Socialism

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2023

Journal of Contemporary History

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Constructing a Usable Past: Changing Memory Politics in Jasenovac Memorial Museum

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Difficult Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Local and Transnational Entanglements in Memorializing Political Prisons after Socialism

Difficult Heritage in Southeastern Europe: Local and Transnational Entanglements in Memorializing Political Prisons after Socialism

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