Camps of Transit, Sites of Memory

ISBN-13: 9781800793897 / Miękka / 2023 / 324 str.

Opis

Camps and places of transit have great relevance in the contemporary age, from genocide to forced migration, prisoners of war to refugees of catastrophes. This book investigates the relationship between camps and places of transit through history, considering their architectural, memorial and educational significance.

Spis treści

Contents: 'It Was More Horrible than in Auschwitz': A Comparative Analysis of the Transit Camps of Monor and Budakalász - Lives in Transit: Scipione Concentration Camp - Hunting for Manpower: Transit Camps for Forced Labour in Nazi- Occupied Italy - Camps for Foreign Refugees in Italy in the Central Decades of the Cold War - A Place in the Mist: The Mysterious Dossin Barracks in Mechelen - Countering Memory with Memorial: Remembering Indifference at the Shoah Memorial of Milan - Memorial Sites at the Border: The Rice Mill of San Sabba and Natzweiler- Struthof - The Caserme Rosse Barracks, from Transit Camp to the Present: Notes about its Architecture - and the Meanings of the Place - Topography as a Memorial Shape: Learning from Transit Sites - The Deviation of a Modernist Project: From Cité de la Muette to Drancy Internment Camp, up to Cité HLM - The Concentration Camp and the Ideal City: Nomadelfia - a Camp- a- nomaly - The Spectre of the Yellow Warehouse: Transitions in Memory - The Camp Form and the Experience Infrastructures: A Counter- Fatal Research Perspective - Fragile Memories: A Brief Historical Overview of Italian Conservation Laws on Fascist Concentration Camps - The Aporias of Civilization: An Itinerary between Images and Memory in Georges Didi- Huberman - The House of the Wannsee Conference as a Perpetrator Site.

O autorze

Matteo Cassani Simonetti is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Bologna and member of the Centro Studi of the Fossoli Foundation. His main research interests are history of Italian contemporary architecture and historiography of modern architecture.

Roberta Mira holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History and is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna and member of the Centro Studi of the Fossoli Foundation. Her main research interests are fascism, National Socialism, resistance, deportation, war violence, memory studies and didactics of history.