Shaping Holocaust memory in Greece: memorials and their public history

Droumpouki, Anna Maria

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“…In chronological order, some indicative works: (Plaut 2000;Fleming 2008;Bowman 2009;Apostolou 2010;Molho 2010;Kerem 2012;Mavrogordatos 2012;Varon-Vassard 2013;Pinhas 2014;Kavala 2015;Droumpouki 2016;Králová 2016;Antoniou and Moses 2018;Hantzaroula 2020;Saltiel 2020;Karababas 2024). 9 See note 2 above.…”

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“…In developing connected histories, we can build connected publics, and, by extension address antisemitism through grassroots transformative activity. Moreover, this article contributes to the limited work centring memory in Greek historiography by reconstituting spatialities of Holocaust remembrance as sites for the biographicity of 'complicated historical, political and aesthetic axes on which Jewish memory is being constructed' contemporaneously (Droumpouki 2016). These explorations link well with recent scholarship on the political and discursive framings of the new (publicly announced almost a decade ago, in 2013: http://holocausteducenter.gr/; accessed on 20 December 2023) Holocaust Museum of Greece (HMG) based in Thessaloniki within an ongoing agenda context of commemoration, reconciliation and antisemitism (Karasová and Králová 2022).…”

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Christou

2024

Histories

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Despite the increasingly diverse societal landscape in Greece for more than three decades within a context of migration, understandings of its fragile histories are still limited in shaping a sense of belonging that is open to ‘otherness’. While Greek communities have utilised history as a pathway to maintain identity, other parallel histories and understandings do not resonate with ‘Greekness’ for most, such as the case of Greek Jewry. Critical historical perspectives can benefit from tracing ‘re-membering’ as a feminist practice in the reassessment of societal values of inclusivity. Histories of violence and injustice can also include elements of ‘difficult histories’ and must be embraced to seek acknowledgement of these in promoting social change and cultural analysis for public humanities informing curation and curricula. Between eduscapes, art heritage spaces, an entry into contested and conflictual histories can expand a sense of belonging and the way we imagine our own connected histories with communities, place and nation. Greek Jews do not constitute a strong part of historical memory for Greeks in their past and present; in contrast to what is perceived as ‘official’ history, theirs is quite marginal. As a result, contemporary Greeks, from everyday life to academia, do not have a holistic understanding in relation to the identities of Jews in Greece, their culture or the Holocaust. Given the emergence of a new wave of artistic activism in recent years in response to the ever-increasing dominance of authoritarian neoliberalism, along with activist practices in the art field as undercurrents of resistance, in this intervention I bring together bodies of works to create a dialogic reflection with historical, artistic and feminist sources. In turn, the discussion then explores the spatiotemporal contestations of the historical geographies of Holocaust monuments in Greece. While interrogating historical amnesia, I endeavour to provide a space to engage with ‘difficult histories’ in their aesthetic context as a heritage of healing and social justice.

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Christou

2024

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“…While significantly more attention has been focused on the Holocaust in Greece over the past two decades (Droumpouki 2013(Droumpouki , 2016Molho 2016;Apostolou 2018;Lewkowicz 2006;Králová 2017), the HMG project has yet to be subjected to wider scholarly or public debate. Such an omission is not new, as demonstrated by historians and memory scholars, sometimes even in comparative studies (Himka and Michlic 2013;Makhotina et al 2015, most recently, e.g., Radonić 2021.…”

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“…All three Jewish museums dedicated a major exhibition gallery to the Holocaust, logically raising the question of why Greece—particularly Thessaloniki—needs an additional Holocaust museum. While the existing museums are at former centers of local Jewish life, the HMG project is located on the site of an old railway station where, between March and August 1943, more than 45,000 Jews of German-occupied Greece were deported (Fleischer 1991, 271–273; Mazower 2001, 244; Droumpouki 2016, 207). The HMG would thus be the first “in situ” museum in the local Holocaust landscape.…”

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The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?

Karasová

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2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article explores the political and discursive framing of the emerging project Holocaust Museum of Greece (HMG) based in Thessaloniki (announced in 2013). As an “in situ” Holocaust museum, the HMG could represent an important step toward recognizing Jewish suffering in a country where—compared with the rest of Europe—unprecedentedly high levels of antisemitic attitudes have been recorded over the past decade. Supported by a qualitative media analysis and supplemented with data from our online survey, we explore how HMG stakeholders and potential local visitors reflect on the project. Occurring amid contemporary endeavors in Holocaust commemoration and Greek-German reconciliation, we connect it with their persistence in combating far-right tendencies and antisemitism. Specifically, we investigate whose memory HMG stakeholders aim to display, how they reflect on dominant Greek historical narratives and whether they express a clear memory commitment and a genuine effort to produce a more integrated historical interpretation of the Holocaust in Greece.

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The German Occupation and the Holocaust in Greece: A Survey

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The Holocaust in Greece

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Shaping Holocaust memory in Greece: memorials and their public history

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Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

Curatorial Dissonance and Conflictual Aesthetics: Holocaust Memory and Public Humanities in Greek Historiography

The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?

The German Occupation and the Holocaust in Greece: A Survey

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