The Hiroshima-Auschwitz Peace March and the Globalization of the ‘Moral Witness’

Zwigenberg, Ran

doi:10.1080/23256249.2013.852767

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“…Together with three Japanese students, Gyōtsū headed the 3000-km procession, visiting war and memory sites from Hiroshima to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The organizers emphasized the unity of war victims and plurality of victim-witness voices, from both sides of the victim/victimizer spectrum, as a basis for world peace (Zwigenberg, 2013). Some of the war victims the marchers met rejected their contradictory public role (resistor to war) and peaceful and pluralist message.…”

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Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists

Gutman

Wüstenberg

2021

Memory Studies

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Memory activists have recently received more scholarly and public attention, but the concept lacks conceptual clarity. In this article, we articulate an analytical framework for studying memory activists, proposing a relatively narrow definition: “Memory activists” strategically commemorate the past to challenge (or protect) dominant views on the past and the institutions that represent them. Their goal is mnemonic change or to resist change. We locate scholarship on memory activists at the intersection of memory studies and social movement studies. We introduce a typology for comparative analysis of memory activism according to activist roles, temporality, and modes of interaction with other actors in memory politics, and illustrate this with a diverse set of empirical examples. We contend that the analytical utility of the concept of the “memory activist” is premised on its value-neutrality, and in particular, its application to both pro and anti-democratic cases of activism.

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Section: Resistors and Heroesmentioning

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Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists

Gutman

Wüstenberg

2021

Memory Studies

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Lessons for the Future: Khmer Rouge Survivor Testimonies as Sites of Individual and Social Regeneration

Lesley

2019

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Polski etap „Marszu Pokoju Hiroszima–Auschwitz” 1962‒1963. Buddyjsko-pacyfistyczne i polityczne konteksty byłych niemieckich nazistowskich obozów koncentracyjnych jako miejsc pamięci o Zagładzie i II wojnie światowej

Skrzyński

2022

The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture New Series

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The Polish stage of the “Hiroshima-Auschwitz Peace March” 1962‒1963. Buddhist-pacifist and political contexts of former German Nazi concentration camps as places of remembrance of the Holocaust and World War II As a result of the increased activity of organizations for former prisoners of the concentration and extermination camps, shortly after World War II, the memory of events at KL Auschwitz-Birkenau reached a global scale. In February 1962, an interreligious group of four young people, led by Satō Gyōtsu (1919‒2018) – a monk from a Buddhist order named Nipponzan-Myōhōji (Nichiren tradition) – undertook to march between Hiroshima and Oświęcim. Their purpose was to tell the truth about the crimes committed in both cities and spread the ideas of pacifism and disarmament. Within ten months, they visited 22 countries. The article primarily analyzes the Polish stage of the “Peace March,” based on an analysis of materials written by veterans and former prisoners of the camp in Auschwitz as well as texts published in the daily press. The second part of the article deals with the religious aspect of the “Peace March” in a broader context, discussing the complicity and collective responsibility of religious organizations, including Buddhist, for the drama of World War II. This “Peace March,” according to the author, was a form of confession of repentance and religious redress.

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The Hiroshima-Auschwitz Peace March and the Globalization of the ‘Moral Witness’

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Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists

Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists

Lessons for the Future: Khmer Rouge Survivor Testimonies as Sites of Individual and Social Regeneration

Polski etap „Marszu Pokoju Hiroszima–Auschwitz” 1962‒1963. Buddyjsko-pacyfistyczne i polityczne konteksty byłych niemieckich nazistowskich obozów koncentracyjnych jako miejsc pamięci o Zagładzie i II wojnie światowej

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