Culture de la mémoire en Bulgarie d’aujourd’hui à propos de la déportation des Juifs des territoires sous administration bulgare en 1943
Culture of Memory in Contemporary Bulgaria about the Deportation of the Jews from the Territory under Bulgarian Administration in 1943
Author(s): Nadia DanovaSubject(s): History, Cultural history, Jewish studies, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Институт за исторически изследвания - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Culture of Memory; Bulgaria and the Holocaust; World War II
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the communication is to present the different manners utilized in contemporary Bulgaria for facing the painful problem of the participation of Bulgarian authorities in the deportation of the Jews from Thrace and Macedonia during World War II. On the basis of examples from the historiography, textbooks, literature, cinema, museums, memorials and public debate are discussed the difficulties in the construction of one common and indivisible memory on events connected to the theme of responsibility and guilt, throwing the long shadow of the past on the actuality.
Journal: Bulgarian Historical Review / Revue Bulgare d'Histoire
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 76-92
- Page Count: 17
- Language: French
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