WHOSE MEMORY? WHICH FUTURE?
Studies in Contemporary European History
Editors:
Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Director of the Zentrum fr Zeithistorische Studien, Potsdam, Germany
Henry Rousso, Senior Research Fellow at the Institut dhistoire du temps prsent (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
Volume 1
Between Utopia and Disillusionment: A Narrative of the Political Transformation in Eastern Europe
Henri Vogt
Volume 2
The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 18981914
Michael E. Nolan
Volume 3
Conflicted Memories: Europeanizing Contemporary Histories
Edited by Konrad H. Jarausch and Thomas Lindenberger with the Collaboration of Annelie Ramsbrock
Volume 4
Playing Politics with History: The Bundestag Inquiries into East Germany
Andrew H. Beattie
Volume 5
Alsace to the Alsatians? Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 18701939
Christopher J. Fischer
Volume 6
A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance
Edited by Magorzata Pakier and Bo Strth
Volume 7
Experience and Memory: The Second World War in Europe
Edited by Jrg Echternkamp and Stefan Martens
Volume 8
Children, Families, and States: Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool, and Primary Education in Europe
Edited by Karen Hagemann, Konrad H. Jarausch, and Cristina Allemann-Ghionda
Volume 9
Social Policy in the Smaller European Union States
Edited by Gary B. Cohen, Ben W. Ansell, Jane Gingrich, and Robert Henry Cox
Volume 10
A State of Peace in Europe: West Germany and the CSCE, 19661975
Petri Hakkarainen
Volume 11
Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 19451990
Edited by Frederic Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, Bernd Rother, and N. Piers Ludlow
Volume 12
Investigating Srebrenica: Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities
Edited by Isabelle Delpla, Xavier Bougarel, and Jean-Louis Fournel
Volume 13
Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism
Edited by Friederike Kind-Kovacs and Jessie Labov
Volume 14
Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Experts, Networks, and Issues from the 1840s to the 1930s
Edited by Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck, and Jakob Vogel
Volume 15
Tailoring Truth: Politicizing the Past and Negotiating Memory in East Germany, 19451990
Jon Berndt Olsen
Volume 16
Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives
Edited by Magorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak
Volume 17
The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 19362016
Edited by Manuel Bragana and Peter Tame
Volume 18
Whose Memory? Which Future? Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
Edited by Barbara Trnquist-Plewa
Published in 2016 by
Berghahn Books
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2016 Barbara Trnquist-Plewa
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Trnquist Plewa, Barbara.
Title: Whose memory? Which future?: remembering ethnic cleansing and lost cultural diversity in Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe / edited by Barbara Trnquist-Plewa.
Description: New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. | Series: Studies in contemporary European history; volume 18 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015045568| ISBN 9781785331237 (hardback: alkaline paper) | ISBN 9781785331237 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations. | Europe,
Central--Ethnic relations. | Genocide--Europe, Eastern--History. | Genocide--Europe, Central--History. | Cultural pluralism--Europe, Eastern--History. |
Cultural pluralism--Europe, Central--History. | Memory--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern. | Memory--Social aspects--Europe, Central. |
Collective memory--Europe, Eastern. | Collective memory--Europe, Central.
Classification: LCC DJK26 .W47 2016 | DDC 305.80094--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015045568
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-78533-122-0 hardback
ISBN 978-1-78533-123-7 ebook
CONTENTS
Barbara Trnquist-Plewa
Chapter 1
Wrocaw: Changes in Memory Narratives
Igor Pietraszewski and Barbara Trnquist-Plewa
Chapter 2
Between Old Animosity and New Mourning: Meanings of Czech Post-Communist Memorials of Mass Killings of the Sudeten Germans
Tomas Sniegon
Chapter 3
Polishness as a Site of Memory and Arena for Construction of a Multicultural Heritage in Lviv
Eleonora Narvselius
Chapter 4
Memories of Ethnic Diversity in Local Newspapers: The Six Hundredth Anniversary of Chernivtsi
Niklas Bernsand
Chapter 5
Zaratini: Memories and Absence of the Italian Community of Zadar
Tea Sindbk Andersen
Chapter 6
Echo of Silence: Memory, Politics and Heritage in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Case Study: Viegrad
Dragan Nikoli
Chapter 7
Local Memories under the Influence of Europeanization and Globalization: Comparative Remarks and Conclusions
Barbara Trnquist-Plewa