Neglected Holocaust: Remembering the Deportation of the Jews in Slovenia
Principal Investigator at ZRC SAZU
Oto Luthar, PhD-
Original Title
Neglected Holocaust: Remembering the Deportation of the Jews in Slovenia
Project Team
Ana Hofman, PhD, Tanja Petrović, PhD, Martin Pogačar, PhD-
Duration
1 July 2010–30 June 2012 Partners
Elenore Eppel-Lappin, Goran Hutinac, Univerza v Zagrebu, Ivo Goldstein, Univerza v Zagrebu
For more than 50 years the stories of resistance against Nazism and Fascism failed to thematise the Holocaust and the need to preserve these particular memories never emerged in Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Besides, the post-1989 changes in the memory landscape in Southeastern Europe affected the phenomenon of revisionism, i.e. the negation not only of genocide but also of its related phenomena (anti-fascism and anti-Nazism).
The project focuses on these ‘neglected’ memories of Holocaust, with an attempt to answer the question why the majority “forgot” to tell this story. The work is divided into three phases: designing the topography of deportation, investigating the protocols of destruction and the reconstruction of memory.