Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis
This article sets out to categorise and analyse the ways Holocaust memory can be supportively deployed. It does so by example of memory of the Kindertransport, the rescue of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazism prior to the outbreak of the Second World War to several different host nations. We pr...
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| description | This article sets out to categorise and analyse the ways Holocaust memory can be supportively deployed. It does so by example of memory of the Kindertransport, the rescue of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazism prior to the outbreak of the Second World War to several different host nations. We present here our theory of invocative memory, arguing that responses to humanitarian crises in the present actively and instrumentally draw on Holocaust memory as a moral resource. Our article sets out this theory in relation to a range of cultural artefacts including memorials, novels and exhibitions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-caa05555493a416199fa9f87bbd9b3e12025-08-20T02:21:42ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiDiasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire1637-58232431-14722020-12-013610912110.4000/diasporas.5725Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisisAmy WilliamsBill NivenThis article sets out to categorise and analyse the ways Holocaust memory can be supportively deployed. It does so by example of memory of the Kindertransport, the rescue of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazism prior to the outbreak of the Second World War to several different host nations. We present here our theory of invocative memory, arguing that responses to humanitarian crises in the present actively and instrumentally draw on Holocaust memory as a moral resource. Our article sets out this theory in relation to a range of cultural artefacts including memorials, novels and exhibitions.https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/5725Kindertransportinvocative memorymemorialsLord Alfred DubsFrank Meisler |
| spellingShingle | Amy Williams Bill Niven Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire Kindertransport invocative memory memorials Lord Alfred Dubs Frank Meisler |
| title | Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis |
| title_full | Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis |
| title_fullStr | Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis |
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| title_short | Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis |
| title_sort | memory of the kindertransport in britain and germany and the current refugee crisis |
| topic | Kindertransport invocative memory memorials Lord Alfred Dubs Frank Meisler |
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