Have you been offended? Holocaust memory in the Channel Islands at HMD 70
TitleHave you been offended? Holocaust memory in the Channel Islands at HMD 70
Author
Call numberS940.5318/005
Object number05556ja
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherRoutledge
Year of publication
2016
Dimensionspp 44-64
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust studies: a journal of culture and history',vol 22, issue 1, pp44-64
Description
The Channel Islands have great difficulty in coming to terms with the Holocaust given the implications of the local authorities in the registration of the islands' Jewish population during the German occupation. The issue is still taboo in Guernsey today. This article addresses the power of that taboo at the time of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2015, proposing the concept of the 'incremental memory event' as a way of understanding the differences in memory in both islands