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Anne Frank in South Africa: remembering the Holocaust during and after Apartheid

Anne Frank in South Africa: remembering the Holocaust during and after Apartheid
Anne Frank in South Africa: remembering the Holocaust during and after Apartheid
Over the past six decades, South Africans have drawn on the symbol of Anne Frank in diverse ways in order to make sense of their own history and politics. The portrayal of Anne underwent several dramatic shifts during the apartheid period and after the transition to a non-racial political system, from a 1950s play foregrounding the young diarist's Jewishness to a 2009 exhibition promoting tolerance and democracy. Below, the author considers what such representations can tell us more broadly about how the legacy of Nazism informed understandings of and responses to apartheid, and explores how the Holocaust was appropriated for disparate political ends in the postwar world's quintessential racial state.
8756-6583
366-393
Gilbert, Shirli
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Gilbert, Shirli
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Gilbert, Shirli (2012) Anne Frank in South Africa: remembering the Holocaust during and after Apartheid. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 26 (3), 366-393. (doi:10.1093/hgs/dcs058).

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Over the past six decades, South Africans have drawn on the symbol of Anne Frank in diverse ways in order to make sense of their own history and politics. The portrayal of Anne underwent several dramatic shifts during the apartheid period and after the transition to a non-racial political system, from a 1950s play foregrounding the young diarist's Jewishness to a 2009 exhibition promoting tolerance and democracy. Below, the author considers what such representations can tell us more broadly about how the legacy of Nazism informed understandings of and responses to apartheid, and explores how the Holocaust was appropriated for disparate political ends in the postwar world's quintessential racial state.

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Published date: 2012
Organisations: History

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Local EPrints ID: 204885
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/204885
ISSN: 8756-6583
PURE UUID: 8ef16ebd-9363-4e0e-ad93-60ab24afabcd

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