Pub Date : 2016-03-01DOI: 10.2979/HISTMEMO.28.1.36
C. Pennell
This article explores how secondary school pupils in England are integrated into the First World War centenary practices of remembrance with a particular focus on education. It discusses which narratives of the war are included in and excluded from secondary-level classroom history teaching and raises important concerns relating to the “memory messages” that are being communicated via history teaching of the First World War and the consequences of such narratives regarding the replication of power relations, a continued inability to deal with Britain’s colonial legacy, and an uncritical normalizing of the military in the minds of young people.
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Pub Date : 2015-09-06DOI: 10.2979/HISTMEMO.27.2.74
G. White
Growing numbers of American travelers are making their way to the landing beaches of D-Day where they find places such as the Normandy American Cemetery that reproduce distinctly American visions of World War II. Travelers passing through Paris also find opportunities to explore sites relevant to French memories of the war—sites that have the potential to disrupt as well as validate dominant narratives. This article discusses a walking tour that constructed its history around the story of the liberation of Paris. The analysis explores the interactive construction of historical understanding as the tour’s dominant narrative of liberation intermingles with questions about French complicity, resistance, deportation and the Holocaust.
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Pub Date : 2015-09-06DOI: 10.2979/HISTMEMO.27.2.104
E. Buchheim
Intimacy between Japanese men and Dutch-Indisch women during the Pacific War in the Dutch East Indies (1942–45) resulted in offspring who often were unaware of their descent. Even though, after the war, they were considered compromising consequences of fraternization, in recent decades the Japanese government has invited ex-POWs and children of Japanese fathers for a visit to “promote a spirit of reconciliation with Japan and the Japanese people.” This article examines the images and sentiments produced in the context of these travels, asking how Japanese-Indisch descendants envision their affinity to an unknown fatherland and what is at stake for the Japanese organizers.
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Pub Date : 2015-09-06DOI: 10.2979/HISTMEMO.27.2.45
Carol A. Kidron
Contrary to analyses of top-down national intervention in and construction of familial memory, a study of intergenerational memory work at communal sites of Holocaust memory shows the family’s enlistment of institutions as resources to salvage lost or silent Holocaust memory. The memory work carried out by families of Holocaust survivors at a number of such sites reveals both the top-down enlistment of familial memory and the bottom-up intergenerational transmission of Holocaust tales within the family. The findings highlight processes of negotiation and cooperation between state-run public institutions and survivor families in the construction of familial Holocaust memory and alternative sites of commemoration.
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Pub Date : 2015-09-06DOI: 10.2979/HISTMEMO.27.2.126
Shingo Iitaka
This article explores how Okinawan returnees from Micronesia, particularly the Marianas and Palau, struggle to maintain memorial services in the post–Pacific War period. Okinawans adopted two strategies to keep these services alive: incorporating younger people in both Okinawa and Micronesia, and maintaining close ties with local communities that assist their activities. Okinawans, through their marginalizing and traumatizing wartime experiences in Nan’yō Guntō (Micronesia), have adopted a broad perspective that transcends national boundaries. Their memorial practices are authentic and have the potential to overturn nationalist discourse, although they also risk absorption into Japan’s national memory.
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Pub Date : 2015-09-01DOI: 10.2979/HISTMEMO.27.2.20
Christina Schwenkel
This essay examines alternative circuits of memory of the “American War” and the return of other “veterans” to postwar Vietnam; namely, socialist experts from East Germany who contributed to war efforts and urban reconstruction in the 1970s. It follows a delegation of experts who returned in 2007 to the devastated city of Vinh, which they had helped to rebuild. The motivations and itineraries of these returnees diverged from the typical agendas of “war tourists,” including the return journeys of U.S. veterans. For the socialist humanitarians, returning to Vietnam offered an opportunity for important memory work within and across former Cold War divisions.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-21DOI: 10.2979/HISTMEMO.27.1.116
Johannes Heuman
The campaign to build the Tombeau du Martyr Juif Inconnu in Paris (today Mémorial de la Shoah) in the 1950s transcended both national and religious barriers. Without denying the Jewish significance of the genocide, this campaign targeted various religious communities and received international political support. However, while the Holocaust today has become a catalyst for critical reflection on national shame and guilt, this article suggests that the emergence of this remembrance in the early Cold War era did not necessarily challenge or deconstruct existing heroic national narratives of the past. By associating the commemoration of this genocide with positive deeds and intercultural solidarity, the whole project was indeed successful.
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This article approaches the story of women’s negotiations with social reforms in late colonial urban Bengal through an analysis of private reminiscences of elderly Muslim and Hindu women. Skirting the larger stories of nationalist transformation, conflict and dislocation that so often dominate discussions of Muslim-Hindu relations in the subcontinent, the life stories analyzed here foreground an intimate realm of everyday experiences that captures a “feeling” for a bygone time and context, and the complex linkages between public memory and individual biography. The article also pays attention to the oral narratives as intersubjective, dialogically produced “texts” that are fraught with tensions.
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Pub Date : 2015-03-21DOI: 10.2979/HISTMEMO.27.1.43
Alon Confino
On May 23, 1948, Jewish forces occupied the Palestinian village of Tantura, expelled all its residents, and on June 13 a group of young Zionists settled in the village to build a new kibbutz in the nascent State of Israel, Nahsholim. What happened in the following weeks, years and decades to the several hundred houses of Tantura and their narrow alleys, to the village school, and to the makeshift cafés on the beach, where Tanturians used to sit on hot summer evenings caressed by the cool breeze from the Mediterranean? How did the Israeli Jews engage with and transform the coast they now inhabited, and how did they remember its past and construct its new present? I tell this story via five aerial photos of the coast from 1946, 1952, 1957, 1966 and 1976.
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