Sökning: "commemoration."
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade ordet commemoration..
1. Beyond the Witness : Holocaust Representations and the Testimony of Images
Sammanfattning : In a time when the very last Holocaust witnesses will soon be gone, a possible route for commemoration is to ask what testimony images can give. This book seeks to answer the question of how images can bear witness by examining them as multifaceted entities produced, reproduced, and resituated in conflicting political and historical situations. LÄS MER
2. A Mention to Those not Mentioned : Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008
Sammanfattning : Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. LÄS MER
3. Border-Crossing Commemorations : Entangled Histories of Swedish Settling in America
Sammanfattning : Different groups from both sides of the Atlantic have since the 1930s come together to commemorate histories of Swedish settling in America. They have celebrated the founding of the New Sweden colony in the Delaware Valley (1638–1655), and the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of Swedish pioneers in the Mississippi Valley. LÄS MER
4. Under runristad häll : Tidigkristna gravmonument i 1000-talets Sverige
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines transformations in burial and commemorative practices during the late Viking Age and early Middle Ages based on early Christian grave monuments (in sw. often named Eskilstunakistor); the first examples of churchyard memorials known in south central Sweden. LÄS MER
5. Nie wieder Auschwitz! : Die Enstehung einesSymbols und der Alltag einer Gedenkstätte
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