Essays about: "Holocaust"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 47 essays containing the word Holocaust.
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16. Making Room for the Holocaust? : Entangled Memory Regimes and Polarized Contestation about the Greek 1940s in Thessaloniki
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : The present thesis offers a new perspective on Holocaust memory in Greece by examining the ways in which divergent mnemonic representations about the Greek 1940s, as evidenced in polarized public contestation, influence the position of Holocaust in contemporary Greek collective memory. Adopting a micro-level case-study approach, the thesis focuses on the process of renaming a street in Salonika (or Thessaloniki), by examining public discourses around the issue. READ MORE
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17. The Faith and Actions of Greta Andrén, Missionary to the Jews of Vienna, 1938-1941
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kyrko- och missionsstudierAbstract : In this Master’s thesis, I conduct a micro-historical study of deaconess and missionary Greta Andrén (1909-1971) and her work for Svenska Israelsmissionen, the Swedish Israel Mission, in Vienna during the National Socialist occupation. By examining letters as well as select publications, I try to uncover her motives and how she found meaning in her work, and how this could be seen in relation to the origins of the Mission in the Swedish Low Church awakening and certain apocalypticviews on the Jews. READ MORE
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18. The memory of the Holocaust as a point of state ontological (in)security : A comparative discursive analysis of the United Kingdom and Poland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : This thesis utilises the context of European Holocaust memory to test differences within the existing literature of the theory of ‘ontological security’. The differences centre on questions of identity preservation in the face of threats to a states ‘sense of self’. READ MORE
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19. Breaking the Silence : A Discussion of the Finnish SS-volunteers in Finland 2018-2019
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : Since the 1960s the memory of the Finnish SS-volunteers has been seen as a special group which did not participate in the atrocities while serving in Waffen-SS. A new study about the Finnish SS-volunteers was published at the end of 2018 sparking an active discussion about the role of Finns in the Holocaust and atrocities in World War II. READ MORE
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20. Faith in Elie Wiesel’s Night
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The aim of this essay is to examine whether the traumatic experiences that Elie Wiesel depicts in his novel, Night, led the author or any other character he encounters to lose their faith. Considering that the author describes himself and other characters in the novel as believers, one wonders how it would be possible not to lose faith after experiencing the terror of the concentration camps. READ MORE