The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades
from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War …

Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of
Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the …

This article examines how contemporary war museums represent war and war-making. It
looks at and compares the ideas underpinning the permanent exhibitions of two museums …

This essay argues that the construction of the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Berlin
Holocaust Memorial constitutes a paradigm shift in Holocaust commemoration in Germany …

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of
video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video …

Holocaust memorials and museums face a difficult task as their staffs strive to commemorate
and document horror. On the one hand, the events museums represent are beyond most …

Mediating Memory in the Museum is a contribution to an emerging field of research that is
situated at the interface between memory studies and museum studies. It highlights the role …

Following the theorisation of museums as agonistic spaces and drawing on a comparative
analysis of war museums located in various European countries, this paper argues that …

The contributors to the present volume approach World War I and World War II as complex
and intertwined crossroads leading to the definition of the new European (and world) reality …

Collective Traumas is about the traumatic European history of the 20th century-war,
genocide, dictatorship, ethnic cleansing-and how individuals, communities and nations have …