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Author Clifford, Rebecca, author

Title Commemorating the Holocaust : the dilemmas of remembrance in France and Italy / Rebecca Clifford
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs.
Contents Cover; Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Divided Memories in Cold War France ; THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS DURING THE WAR ; POST -- WAR SILENCES ; Organizing deportees: collective voices, private silences; COMMEMORATIONS; La grande rafle du Vél' d'hiv' ; Official commemorations: the Journée Nationale de la Déportation ; RETHINKING THE WAR; New scholarly interest in Vichy's role; New approaches to Jewish identity
Holocaust denial and the growth of the extreme rightChanging commemorations in the 1970s and 1980s; 2: Divided Memories in Cold War Italy ; THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS DURING THE FASCIST PERIOD AND THE WAR ; POST -- WAR SILENCES ; Organizing deportees: collective voices, private silences; COMMEMORATIONS; The tenth of Teveth ; 16 October 1943; The Fosse Ardeatine ; Liberation Day; RETHINKING THE WAR?; Scholarly interest in the Jews under Fascism; 3: 'Amnesia and Responsibility': France, 1990-1993 ; CAR PENTRAS AND THE FICHIER JUIF ; FROM TOUVIER TO THE VÉL' D'HIV' ; The Comité Vél' d'hiv' 42
Vichy versus the Republic16 July 1992; New actors and new forms of activism; TOWARDS A NATIONAL COMMEMORATION; The gerbe affair ; The 1993 decree: recognition or placation? ; 4: 'Reconciliation': Italy, 1993-1996 ; REINTERPRETING FASCISM AND THE RESISTANCE ; 16 October 1993; Combat film ; Largo Bottai; THE PRIEBKE TRIAL; A crime against Italians or a crime against Jews?; Vendetta or unhealed rift?; Situating the massacre; TOWARDS-AND AWAY FROM-A NATIONAL COMMEMORATION ; Recognizing Italian responsibility; Recognizing Fascist responsibility
5: The Vél' d'Hiv' Commemoration: Creating a 'Duty to Remember' A PROFUSION OF AMBIGUOUS GESTURES; Political transitions; The Rights of Man as a new holistic myth ; TOWARDS INSTITUTIONALIZATION; Le devoir de mémoire; Deeper into institutional responsibility; Systematic investigations; LES JUSTES; 6: The Day of Memory: The Uses and Abuses of Official Commemoration ; INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC PRESSURES; A 'DUTY TO REMEMBER'?; National responsibility and the brava gente myth; Competing memories; I GIUSTI; Conclusion; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPT AND ARCHIVAL SOURCES
PRINTED BULLETINS AND NEWSLETTERSPERIODICALS; INTERVIEWS BY AUTHOR CITED IN TEXT ; PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES; PRINTED SECONDARY SOURCES; UNPUBLISHED SOURCE; Index
Summary Rebecca Clifford discusses the role the Holocaust came to play in French and Italian political culture in the period after the end of the Cold War by charting the development of official national Holocaust commemorations in France and Italy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Political aspects -- France
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Political aspects -- Italy
Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust -- France
Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust -- Italy
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Buddhism and politics
Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust
France
Italy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191669286
0191669288
1299907962
9781299907966
9780191759987
0191759988