The Heritage of a Transit Camp; Fossoli: History, Memory, Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781789979046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 328 str.

Daniele Salerno; Matteo Cassani Simonetti; Roberta Mira

Opis

Now maintained as a museum and memorial site, the former camp of Fossoli was a Nazi concentration and transit camp for political opponents, Jews and forced labourers. The essays in this volume analyse, from different disciplinary perspectives, the material and immaterial heritage that constitutes a rich and articulated memorial system today.

Recenzje

«The Heritage of a Transit Camp. Fossoli: History, Memory and Aesthetics is a highly original and important volume which will be of great interest for scholars of the Shoah, political deportation and fascism, and memory as well as general readers. A crucial site of Italian history and politics has finally been given the multi-layered and critical study which it deserves.» (Professor John Foot, University of Bristol)

«This powerful, absolutely essential collection of essays on the heritage of the Fossoli transit camp shines a searing light on the interpenetration of history and memory at the locus of Italy's Holocaust memorial culture. The brilliant approach to the ongoing excavation and cultivation of memory at Fossoli is a cutting edge model for how we understand the long, living duration of Holocaust memorial sites everywhere.» (Professor James E. Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Spis treści

Contents: Marzia Luppi: At the Roots of the Fossoli Foundation: The Fossoli Camp - Lorenzo Bertucelli: The Southern Terminal. Italy and the Memories of Deportation: A Transnational Perspective - Roberta Mira: The Fossoli Foundation and Its Heritage of History and Memory - Giovanni Leoni: In Memory of the Other Resistance: The Places and Architecture of the Fossoli Memorial - Robert S. C. Gordon: Pensaci, uomo!: Holocaust Memory, the Photo- Icon- Object and Licalbe Steiner at Carpi - Viviana Gravano and Patrizia Violi: Rethinking Trauma, Rethinking History: The Case of Fossoli- Carpi - Matteo Cassani Simonetti: Domesticity and Sacredness in Synagogue Architecture: The Oratory and Temple in Carpi (1722- 1921) - Daniele Salerno: The Afterlife of the Fossoli Camp - Paolo Faccio and Andrea Ugolini: The Remains and the Landscape: Strategies for Active Conservation of the Former Campo di Fossoli - Essential Timeline.

O autorze

Matteo Cassani Simonetti is Senior Assistant Professor of History of Architecture at the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna.

Roberta Mira is currently Adjunct Professor of History of Conflicts at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Daniele Salerno is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the University of Utrecht, in collaboration with the University of Buenos Aires, and associate member of the ERC research group «Remembering Hope: The Cultural Memory of Protest in Europe» (REACT).