Have you been offended? Holocaust memory in the Channel Islands at HMD 70
TitreHave you been offended? Holocaust memory in the Channel Islands at HMD 70
Auteur
Call numberS940.5318/005
N° d'objet05556ja
Lieu de publicationLondon, England
EditeurRoutledge
Année de publication
2016
Dimensionspp 44-64
MatérielArticle
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