Displaying Ravensbrück concentration camp memorial: from the "antifascist fight" to "history and memory of the women's concentration camp"

"According to Violi (2012), trauma sites, the term used to describe sites of extermination and mass murder, do not represent anything. They shift from representation to re-presentation. As such, they are unique observatories of attitudes in post-conflict societies. Hence, curatorial, restoratio...

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1. Verfasser: Pastor, Doreen 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
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Zusammenfassung:"According to Violi (2012), trauma sites, the term used to describe sites of extermination and mass murder, do not represent anything. They shift from representation to re-presentation. As such, they are unique observatories of attitudes in post-conflict societies. Hence, curatorial, restoration and memorialisation processes reflect the decisions at the time. Ravensbrück, the women's concentration camp located in the north of Germany, is such a case in point. In 1959, the GDR (East Germany) transformed parts of the site into a memorial. The first museum, housed in the former solitary confinement block, described the women's suffering with a strong focus on the communist victims and their struggle against the fascist regime. Because of a lack of objects, the first exhibition relied solely on images and documents, arranged in such a way that they would represent a ‘hateful’ atmosphere. In 1984, the new ‘Museum of the Antifascist Fight’ was opened with the aim of ‘engendering hatred against fascist imperialist regimes of the past and the present’ (unknown 1980), thus using exhibits and images in their most brutal form. After the German reunification in 1990, the exhibitions at the GDR memorial sites, including Ravensbrück, were deemed deficient because of their instrumentalisation of history. In Ravensbrück, two new exhibitions were subsequently developed before the current exhibition ‘history and memory of the women's concentration camp’ was opened."
"In this chapter, I will critically analyse the history of the exhibitions at Ravensbrück from 1959 onwards to the present day, showing that the memorialisation and museumification of the Nazi past has been hard to achieve."
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ISBN:978-0-367-27250-0

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