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The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki: In Whose Memory?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2022
Abstract
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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- Special Issue Article
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- Nationalities Papers , Volume 51 , Issue 3: Special Issue on Beyond the National Museum Paradigm , May 2023 , pp. 622 - 643
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- © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of Nationalities
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