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- Title
HOLOCAUST MEMORY IN CONTEMPORARY ESTONIA CLASHES OF VICTIMHOOD.
- Authors
Stocker, Paul Oliver
- Abstract
This article explores how several key museums discuss the Holocaust in the wider context of Estonian history, including Estonia's traumatic past under Soviet occupation. It is argued that the Estonian narrative of victimhood still dominates collective memory as displayed in museums, and Jewish suffering in the Holocaust takes a much less prominent place despite an increase in Holocaust awareness among the Estonian political elite since the country's "return to the West". Three museums which present vastly different narratives are analyzed, the Estonian History Museum, the Museum of Occupations, and the Estonian Jewish Museum. The Estonian case is part of a wider and increasingly complex institutionalized European commemoration culture which has developed since the EU enlargement 2010.
- Subjects
HOLOCAUST museums; HOLOCAUST victims; SOVIET occupation of Estonia; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Baltic Worlds, 2016, Vol 9, Issue 1/2, p16
- ISSN
2000-2955
- Publication type
Article