Transmitting Memory Between and Beyond Generations
The Rotterdam Bombardment in Local Memory Culture and Education from 1980 to 2015
in Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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Susan Hogervorst
Susan Hogervorst
Open Universiteit Nederland
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This article analyses three local educational projects about the Nazi bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940, all of which took place from 1980 to the present day in the context of the dynamic memory culture of the bombardment. These three contexts testify to a process by which memory, increasingly derived from authentic locations and objects instead of individual memories, is put to use in education. Moreover, increased awareness of the disappearance of eyewitness generations means that young people are becoming key consumers and auxiliary producers of memory.