Walking into History: Holocaust History and Memory on the March of the Living

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2016-10-27

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Cutz, Vanessa

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University of Oregon

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This thesis is an ethnography of how children of Holocaust survivors interacted and connected with the March of the Living and Holocaust sites in Poland. This work explores how considering individual perspectives allows one to understand how the March works in complicated and nuanced ways to intensify connections with relatives and Jewish identity. In three chapters this work situates the experiences of four participants within theories of place-making and post-memory to consider methods they used to connect with Holocaust sites and what effect that connection had on their sense of identity.

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March of the Living, Memory, Pilgrimage, Placemaking, Post-Memory, Second Generation

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