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Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian HolocaustSurvival and Memory: Arnold Daghani’s Verbal and Visual Diaries

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust: Survival and Memory: Arnold... [The representation of memory was the foundation for the practice of Arnold Daghani (1909–1985), who combined, juxtaposed, and interwove media in varied and complex ways, with the verbal and visual forms of his diary acting as contrasting representations of the events to which they related. Daghani was witness, victim, and survivor, and his diaries can be seen as significant testimonies to the Holocaust in Ukraine, about which the historical evidence is sparse. They function as elements in the pursuit of justice and, in fact, led to legal investigations into war crimes. When the courts failed to execute justice due to lack of evidence, Daghani felt ever more strongly his duty to keep the memory of his fellow inmates alive and to make the world more aware of this forgotten corner of the Holocaust. His habit of revising and amplifying his diaries may complicate the issue of historical authenticity, but his aim was to enrich our understanding both of events in the camp and ghetto and of the subsequent traumas. These multiple reworkings of core experiences in visual and verbal form produced the unique body of work that will be analyzed in this article.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian HolocaustSurvival and Memory: Arnold Daghani’s Verbal and Visual Diaries

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Glajar, Valentina; Teodorescu, Jeanine
Schultz, Deborah
Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust — Oct 18, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29451-0
Pages
91 –117
DOI
10.1057/9780230118416_6
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Abstract

[The representation of memory was the foundation for the practice of Arnold Daghani (1909–1985), who combined, juxtaposed, and interwove media in varied and complex ways, with the verbal and visual forms of his diary acting as contrasting representations of the events to which they related. Daghani was witness, victim, and survivor, and his diaries can be seen as significant testimonies to the Holocaust in Ukraine, about which the historical evidence is sparse. They function as elements in the pursuit of justice and, in fact, led to legal investigations into war crimes. When the courts failed to execute justice due to lack of evidence, Daghani felt ever more strongly his duty to keep the memory of his fellow inmates alive and to make the world more aware of this forgotten corner of the Holocaust. His habit of revising and amplifying his diaries may complicate the issue of historical authenticity, but his aim was to enrich our understanding both of events in the camp and ghetto and of the subsequent traumas. These multiple reworkings of core experiences in visual and verbal form produced the unique body of work that will be analyzed in this article.]

Published: Oct 18, 2015

Keywords: Special Collection; Biblical Text; Involuntary Memory; Contrasting Representation; Cherry Orchard

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