Memoryscapes of tragic events in Central Europe

• Autoři: LOPUCH Jozef
• Rok publikování: 2025
• Druh: Další prezentace na konferencích
• Popis: In today’s central Europe states of Czechia, Poland and Slovakia a lot of tragic events took place – from the medieval to modern era battles, but also plenty of other events dated to the 20th century as part of World Wars or the Cold War era. Many of them are part of national history and become memorials and/or museums and through the politics of space can strengthen or weaken the narratives that are shaping those countries and their identities. This paper aims to focus on the memorials/museums referring to the period of the 2nd World War, when the concentration camps (and in case of Poland even extermination camps) were created. Today they serve as a reminder of the tragic past and we can study them not just from the viewpoint of tourism geographies, but we can see them also as a memoryscapes. Those can be defined as assemblages of memory-objects, practices and imaginaries that constitutes memory space-times, and they can produce not only worlds of public remembrance but also of forgetting. Through the analysis of documents and media describing 2nd World War and holocaust memorials (of Czechia, Poland and Slovakia), their formation and history will be explained how those processes of memorialisation differ or in particular examples of museums and/or memorials from each country.