Creating a cosmopolitan past: local and transnational influences on memory work in Schindler's factory, Kraków
Creating a cosmopolitan past: local and transnational influences on memory work in Schindler's factory, Kraków
This article tests the limits of cosmopolitan memory. It spotlights a unique case study, the permanent exhibition in Schindler's Factory in Kraków, shaped by a group of local curators and politicians, as well as representatives of foreign memorial institutions and supranational NGOs. The thrust to create a cosmopolitan narrative came from Polish curators, but their vision was curbed by both a local politician and the head of a global NGO. The version of cosmopolitanism offered in Kraków engaged with contemporary Polish problems. However, it ignored Polish antiSemitism and perpetration. The article reveals how in practice the cosmopolitan message is shaped, what propels it forward and what limits its horizons.
Cosmopolitan memory, Holocaust memory, Kraków, Museums, Poland
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Gryta, Janek
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Gryta, Janek
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Gryta, Janek
(2020)
Creating a cosmopolitan past: local and transnational influences on memory work in Schindler's factory, Kraków.
History and Memory, 32 (1), .
(doi:10.2979/histmemo.32.1.04).
Abstract
This article tests the limits of cosmopolitan memory. It spotlights a unique case study, the permanent exhibition in Schindler's Factory in Kraków, shaped by a group of local curators and politicians, as well as representatives of foreign memorial institutions and supranational NGOs. The thrust to create a cosmopolitan narrative came from Polish curators, but their vision was curbed by both a local politician and the head of a global NGO. The version of cosmopolitanism offered in Kraków engaged with contemporary Polish problems. However, it ignored Polish antiSemitism and perpetration. The article reveals how in practice the cosmopolitan message is shaped, what propels it forward and what limits its horizons.
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Cosmopolitan memory, Holocaust memory, Kraków, Museums, Poland
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