The Holocaust Museum of Greece, Thessaloniki

In Whose Memory

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ID11048010
AuthorsNikola Karasová (Charles University), Nikola Tohma (0000-0002-1954-0029), Katerina Kralova (0000-0001-9475-7933, Charles University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume51
Issue3
Pages622-643
Publication date2023-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2021.85
OpenAlexW4283022433
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited35

This article explores the political and discursive framing of the emerging project Holocaust Museum of Greece (HMG) based in Thessaloniki (announced in 2013). As an “in situ” Holocaust museum, the HMG could represent an important step toward recognizing Jewish suffering in a country where—compared with the rest of Europe—unprecedentedly high levels of antisemitic attitudes have been recorded over the past decade. Supported by a qualitative media analysis and supplemented with data from our online survey, we explore how HMG stakeholders and potential local visitors reflect on the project. Occurring amid contemporary endeavors in Holocaust commemoration and Greek-German reconciliation, we connect it with their persistence in combating far-right tendencies and antisemitism. Specifically, we investigate whose memory HMG stakeholders aim to display, how they reflect on dominant Greek historical narratives and whether they express a clear memory commitment and a genuine effort to produce a more integrated historical interpretation of the Holocaust in Greece

Antisemitism · Archaeology · Art · Framing (construction · German · Judaism · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Turkey's Politics and Society

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