Memories of the Holocaust: Slovak bystanders

Vrzgulová, Monika

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“…62 What needs to be stressed, however, is that in the peripheries of Slovakia, the central authorities were not the only actors with authority and power, as both testimonies and situational reports underline. 63 as also the official propaganda admitted, in the many villages and small towns, "the most influential individual was the priest, especially the Roman Catholic Priest," and then the doctor, notary or official, and the teacher. 64 There are a number of things to take into account when speaking of the role of local elites in the Holocaust in Slovakia, and we will limit ourselves to making a point of the blending of authority and power at the communal level.…”

Section: Eastern Slovakia As a Multiethnic Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery

Kubátová

Vrzgulová

2022

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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Focusing on coexistence in towns and villages of the former Šariš Zemplín County during World War II, our article exposes the shifting meanings assigned to belonging in what was a multiethnic borderland region and an economic periphery. Informed by works on community construction and meaning, we understand “locals” as being formed by diverse and at times conflicting social experiences that are nevertheless rooted in the same physical environment. We draw on late witness testimonies by Jewish survivors and Gentile neighbors to investigate the roles of public and private spaces in how a sense of community was revoked. Since the redrawing of boundaries was made into a public concern in the 1930s, the redefining of “locals” along ethnoreligious lines had a deep situational dimension, with local norms and experiences shaping the ousting of the Jews from what was historically a shared space. We conclude by discussing the theoretical and methodological implications of our research for writing integrated histories of the Holocaust, mindful of relationships between people, objects, but also places.

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Section: Eastern Slovakia As a Multiethnic Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery

Kubátová

Vrzgulová

2022

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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“…The 1990s were transformational for Slovak ethnology not only because subjects that had previously been unexplored, censored, or taboo were suddenly open to scientific investigation, but also because the methodological and theoretical toolkit available to researchers was undergoing significant expansion. Issues such as the continuity and conflict of social values (Ratica, Ed., 1991, 1992), 4 social change and transformation (Danglová, 1995;Podoba, 1998, Torsello, 2004Pine, Podoba, Eds., 2007), nationalism and collective identities (Podoba, 2000;Kiliánová, Kowalská, Krekovičová, Eds., 2009), the effect of historical changes throughout the 20 th century on people's everyday lives (Danglová, 2003;Popelková, 2007;Vrzgulová, Popelková, 2007), and, finally, the collective (cultural) memory and memory culture (Salner, Ed., 2020a, 2020bVrzgulová, 2011Vrzgulová, , 2018 were thrust into the forefront of scholarly interest. Towns and cities were increasingly displacing the country as the focus of ethnological research (Popelková, Salner, 2005).…”

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Memory of the Communist Past as a Research Field

Benovska-Sabkova

Vrzgulová

2021

Slovenský Národopis / Slovak Ethnology

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More than three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the debate over the study of socialism continues. Socialism is not a closed page for the researchers, not at least because we keep living with its consequences. By prioritising the "bottom-up" perspective and studying the problems of everyday life under socialism, anthropology has a specific role among the social sciences. The insight into the fabric of everyday life gives the anthropologists a chance to contribute to the understanding of socialism as a unique experience in human history.An inexhaustive overview reminds us that the anthropology of socialism 1 took shape in the 1970s as an Anglophone field of research and as a manifestation of the theoretical renovation of social anthropology (Hann, 2009: 134-135). After the publication of the results of pioneering studies, carried out through field work in Eastern Europe and Eurasia since the 1970s, "the empirical harvest was immensely valuable" (ibid: 135). There is no doubt that both the climate of the cold war and the personal political stance of the authors have influenced the way whereby they present "the ethnographic facts". Some of the most valuable investigations conducted during the last two decades of socialism (

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Invisibilizing Responsibility: The Holocaust Museums of Slovakia and Hungary

Klacsmann

2024

Eastern European Holocaust Studies

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Facing and coming to terms with the past in post-Holocaust Europe has not only been a moral imperative but also a challenge in scientific, political and social senses. This process was delayed significantly in socialist countries. A part of the development of a post-socialist commemorative structure was the establishment of Holocaust museums which not only serve as a memento of the past but also provide an institutional framework for memorialization, research and education about the Holocaust. However, nationalist political forces jeopardize this process by attempting to whitewash the past in order to preserve a positive picture of the nation. In this paper, I compare the permanent exhibitions of three museums from Slovakia and Hungary in order to illuminate how this struggle influences their exhibition narratives and activities. After examining the narrative strategies of the exhibitions and conducting interviews with museum personnel of the Holocaust Memorial Center (Budapest), the House of Jewish Excellencies (Balatonfüred) and the Sereď Holocaust Museum, it can be inferred that especially the way collaboration, perpetration, and in general, the role of the local non-Jewish population is depicted (or obscured), is inextricably intertwined with political agendas.

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Memories of the Holocaust: Slovak bystanders

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Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery

Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery

Memory of the Communist Past as a Research Field

Invisibilizing Responsibility: The Holocaust Museums of Slovakia and Hungary

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