Should “the Holocaust” be discarded, or what’s in a name? Historiography(ies), memory(ies) and metanarrative(s)
TitleShould “the Holocaust” be discarded, or what’s in a name? Historiography(ies), memory(ies) and metanarrative(s)
Author
Call number940.5318072/0076
Object number10591C
Place of publicationStockholm, Sweden
Year of publication
2020
Physical descriptionpp29-51
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust remembrance and representation' pp29-51
Description
Although the term “Holocaust” had begun to emerge in the 1950s as a designation for the fate of the Jews during the Nazi period, the crime, or crimes still had no established and well-known name other than the term “genocide”, “final solution”, extermination”, “mass terror” and ”persecution”. Its ubiquity today might be taken for granted, but tracing the development of the term ”Holocaust” is almost impossible