Children’s Erratic Memories of the Holocaust: On Cross‐Cutting Exchanges in Exhibitions and Visual Projects about Child Survivors and Children of Survivors
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2013, Vol 18, Issue 18
Abstract
My paper analyzes two recent French exhibitions dedicated to Holocaust child survivors and two visual projects by children of Holocaust survivors from Poland and the U.S. I argue that the generations of child survivors and children of survivors share a form of memory which I call erratic memory, one which is fragmented, limited, evanescent, fleeting, and erring at times. The function of such projects is to use the model of erratic memories as structuring blocs of their albums and exhibitions which have a unique potential to foster new generations’ questions as queries that constantly acknowledge and confront the hard to reconcile contradictory meanings associated to increasingly more distant Holocaust experiences.
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Dana Mihăilescu
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