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In the last decades of the 20th c. and following 2000, a real 'boom' in founding Jewish museums throughout Europe could be observed. A lot of new institutions were established, and old ones were modernized. All this resulting from the growing urge to overcome silence over the Holocaust, to square up with the past, and to open the debate on the multiethnicity of the history of Europe. This, in turn,...
The operations of the Department of Museums and Monuments of Polish Martyrology were launched in April 1945 as an organizational unit within the Head Authorities of Museums and Monument Preservation active within the structure of the Ministry of Culture and Art. The Department’s supreme goal was to document and visually commemorate sites connected with the martyrdom of Poles under the German occupation...
It is the representation of death in the monuments by Wiktor Tołkin found at the former concentration camps: Stutthof (at Sztutowo) and Majdanek (in Lublin) that is discussed. As an art historian, the Author confronts Tołkin’s monuments with the theorical framework related to the aesthetics of death representations in martyrology museums. The monuments were created in the late 1960s. The Author has...
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