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SUMMARY:Remembering and Forgetting at Concentration Camp Sites: A Case Stu
 dy from the Netherlands - Greta Lawrence\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20111027T120000Z
DTEND:20111027T133000Z
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CONTACT:Liz Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Camp Westerbork. Camp Vught. Camp Amersfoort. These are just s
 ome of the names of the transit and penal camps left behind in the Netherl
 ands by the Nazis at the end of World War II. As the Dutch began the proce
 ss of national recovery in the post-liberation era\, the physical landscap
 e was littered with the remnants of penal and transit camps\, a reminder o
 f the recent occupation and the baggage of victimhood\, loss\, and collabo
 ration. The Dutch psychological landscape was deeply affected by the exper
 ience of occupation and the legacy of the perpetration of the Holocaust on
  Dutch soil. In The Netherlands\, historians and heritage professionals pr
 ocessed and responded to the concentration camp sites and formed a nationa
 l patriotic narrative of the Dutch wartime experience\, including and some
 times excluding the story of the Holocaust. The camp sites became "les lie
 ux de memoire" (Nora\, 1989)\, sites of memory for remembering a national 
 story of the Holocaust. This dissertation uses the penal and transit camp 
 sites in the Netherlands as a lens for looking at the change in the Dutch 
 national memory of the Holocaust from the immediate aftermath of the war t
 o the present day\; from "retrospective glorification" (Lagrou\, 2000\, 2)
  of résistance fighters and ordinary citizens' suffering to a narrative d
 ominated by a recognition of the exceptionalism of the Jewish experience. 
 This dissertation aims to shed light on how the Dutch views of the Holocau
 st affected the display and management of concentration camp sites under d
 iscussion here\, focusing on current displays and their layers of past int
 erpretation of the narrative of the Holocaust as perpetrated in The Nether
 lands.
LOCATION:McDonald Institute Seminar Room\, Downing Site
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