Title Topographies of suffering : Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice / Jessica Rapson

Published New York and Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations Contents Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I -- Buchenwald; Chapter 1 -- Defining and Redefining Buchenwald; Chapter 2 -- Semprun's Buchenwald; Chapter 3 -- Buchenwald to New Orleans; Part II -- Babi Yar; Chapter 4 -- Marginalized Memories; Chapter 5 -- Babi Yar's Literary Journey; Chapter 6 -- Kiev to Denver; Part III -- Lidice; Chapter 7 -- Between the Past and the Future; Chapter 8 -- Lidice Travels; Chapter 9 -- Twinning Lidice; Conclusion -- Travelling to Remember; Bibliography; Index Summary Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of monument fatigue, a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance.-- Provided by Publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Konzentrationslager Weimar-Buchenwald gnd Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Europe -- Case studies Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- History -- Case studies Collective memory -- Europe -- Case studies Historical geography -- Case studies HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. HISTORY -- Holocaust. Atrocities Collective memory Ethnic relations Historical geography Massaker von Babi Jar Massaker von Lidice Kollektives Gedächtnis Förintelsen. Kollektivt minne. SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations Subject Europe Genre/Form Case studies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781782387107 1782387102

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