This open access book focuses on the relationship between historical events, artistic expressions, and cultural memory to investigate to what extent such an approach can act as a corrective to previous conclusions about different cultures of Holocaust remembrance. The chapters in this contributed volume all engage with one or more of the following questions: How has the cultural representation and medialization of Holocaust memories changed over time and what similarities, differences, and connections exist between the art forms in the different Nordic countries? How can the artistic representation and medialization of Holocaust memories be understood from a broader memory culture perspective? How does it align (or not) with previous research results that point to silence, breaking points, nationalization, Europeanization, Americanization, and globalization of the Holocaust's public memories? What function do the analysed artistic expressions play in the understanding of the Holocaust and the construction of the different memory cultures, and what role have institutions and individual agents played in these processes in and between the Nordic countries?

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Explores how the Holocaust has been publicly memorialised in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Provides new perspectives on countries that have rarely or never been subject to such academic analysis Examines art, diaries, theatre, film, music, photography, public commemorations, and museum exhibitions

Autorentext

Henrik Rosengren is Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden.

Ulf Zander is Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Through The Cameras Lens: Picturing The Holocaust In A Southern Swedish City.- "Better than long descriptions": Polish Art as Witness Testimony in Swedish Memory of the Holocaust.- Pain of Nearly Consuming Intensity: Representation of Holocaust Trauma and Emotional Reception in Yiddish Musical Performances in Sweden and Finland, 19451950.- A Nordic Anne Frank? Theatre and Trajectories of Holocaust Memory.- Remembering October 1943: Rescue, Victimhood And Public Memorial Culture In The Öresund Region.- Zenia Marcinkowska Larsson: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman.- Pornography or Holocaust Memory? The Swedish and Danish Reception of the Swedish Requiem: De ur alla minnen fallna .- Seven Lives at the Swedish Holocaust Museum.