Since the early 1990s, Berlin has developed what I call a “Holocaust trail“-circa twenty-five officially dedicated memorial sites recalling significant historical events leading to the Final Solution-without acknowledging it yet as a “trail.“ Berlin is already well known for its two famous museums-memorials: the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (2005) and the Jewish Museum (2001), two strong statements meant to show how the town deals with the heritage of the Holocaust, how it tries to underline the absolute impossibility of its erasure from social memory and to fight revisionism. The different memorial sites of the Holocaust trail came into existence thanks to multiple initiatives that allowed the town to become a true laboratory for the politics of memory concerning the crimes of the Nazi state and the sufferings of the Jewish citizens that fell victim to the state's genocide.
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Walking Memory
Berlin's “Holocaust Trail“
Maria Pia Di Bella
Book Review
Koen Stroeken
that of a child raising his hands under the pointed gun of a German soldier. An important theoretical tool is the author’s reference to the Stolpersteine in the streets and sidewalks of Berlin, cobbles with brass plates whose engraved names
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- Research Article
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- 149–151 (3 total)
Holocaust Memory Memorials and the Visual Arts in the Netherlands
From Early Public Monuments to Contemporary Artists
Joël J. Cahen
. Also focusing on individual tragedies, the German artist Gunther Demnig (1947–) began in 1996 his Stolpersteine , ‘stumbling stones’ project, comprising memorial blocks currently placed in over 1,200 places (a number that is still expanding rapidly
In European Judaism
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- 01 Mar 2023
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- 102–118 (17 total)
From Archive to Print
The Diarist Victor Klemperer and the Isakowitz Family
Monica Petzal
be a significant part of my future work. I reclaimed German citizenship in 2014 and am a frequent visitor to Germany, to both Dresden and Berlin. I organised the laying of Stolpersteine for my family in Dresden some years ago and we are laying seven
In European Judaism
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- 01 Mar 2023
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- 58–72 (15 total)
Introduction Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts
Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists
Imogen Wiltshire and Fransiska Louwagie
to commemorate the Holocaust towards grappling with a more individualised memory, for instance by naming the victims or placing commemorative Stolpersteine at their last known free home. Cahen also shows how similar trends are manifest in work by
Book Reviews
Stephen Milder, Adam R. Seipp, Jeffrey Luppes, Matthias Dilling, Lotte Houwink ten Cate, and Randall Newnham
of Kassel in the 1980s—with a new sort of memorial work that emerged in the 1990s. Exemplified by Günter Demnig's well-known Stumbling Stones ( Stolpersteine ) project, this “utopian mnemonic agenda” intruded into liminal public spaces, like ordinary
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2023
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- Book Review
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- 106–121 (16 total)
The Aesthetics and Publics of Testimony
Participation and Agency in Architectural Memorializations of the 1993 Solingen Arson Attack
Eray Çaylı
, D. 2004 . ‘ Merçimec-Platz [ sic ] zum Gedenken an die Opfer des Brandanschlages ’. Tacheles 32 : 16 . Gaida , D. 2005 . ‘ Presseerklärung von Mitgliedern des Unterstützerkreises Stolpersteine für Solingen ’. Tacheles 35 : 6
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- 72–92 (21 total)
Dealing with an Ocean of Meaninglessness
Reinhart Koselleck's Lava Memories and Conceptual History
Margrit Pernau and Sébastien Tremblay
forgotten? The holocaust memorial establishes a hierarchy between victims] Die Zeit , 19 March 1998. 40 Reinhart Koselleck, “Die falsche Ungeduld.” Reinhart Koselleck, “Denkmäler sind Stolpersteine: Der Historiker Reinhart Koselleck zur neu entbrannten
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 7–28 (22 total)
The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin
Back to Being Jewish?
Larissa Remennick
how do they perceive the harsh legacies of the twentieth century while living in the belly of the beast, walking on streets with numerous brass-covered slabs among the cobblestones—the so-called Stolpersteine (stumbling stones)—that have been
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Mar 2019
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- Research Article
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- 88–109 (22 total)
Book Reviews
Hilary Silver, Jeffrey Luppes, Joyce Mushaben, Ambika Natarajan, Helge F. Jani, Darren O'Byrne, Christopher Thomas Goodwin, and Stephen J. Silvia
with memorials of various kinds, including large-scale national monuments, local memorials to the fallen of World War I, tens of thousands of Stolpersteine (“stumbling stones”) dedicated to individual victims of National Socialism, as well as over 1
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2019
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- Book Reviews
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- 66–101 (36 total)