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Awkward Object of Genocide: Vernacular Art and the Holocaust in and beyond Polish Ethnographic Museums was a initiative carried out at the Research Center for Memory Cultures at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, by a group of four scholar-curators. The original aim of the project was to explore public and private Polish ethnographic collections in search of art objects referring to, representing, or commenting on the Holocaust. In our project we propose that this unique genre of the visual document, which has received little attention in studies regarding the Holocaust so far, could offer new insights, as well as forge new arguments, different from those commonly employed in attempts to understand the experience and memory of the Holocaust in Polish provinces.
During the Holocaust 5.8 million people were killed; most of the victims did not leave behind any record that could help reconstruct their experience. While survivor history has been well studied in the last decades, how millions of voiceless victims experienced their persecutions has remained a terra incognita. Generally, while perpetrator history is well-documented, the voiceless victims’ perspective has resisted any form of documentation; their emotional and mental experiences conveyed through novels and memoirs have remained fragmented and they have often been dismissed as subjective and unreliable. Today Digital History and Digital Humanities offer new forms of inquiry and representations; they can unlock the emotional, mental, and physical realities which voiceless victims of the Holocaust or other genocides were forced to live in.
Das Lebensthema des Religionsphilosophen, Kulturhistorikers und Politikers Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923) war die „moderne Welt“. In den großen Neuordnungsdiskursen nach 1918 spielte er eine wichtige Rolle in den westeuropäischen, aber auch in den osteuropäischen Kulturtransfers. Gangolf Hübinger und Johannes Bent stellen sein spätes Hauptwerk „Der Historismus und seine Probleme“ vor und betonen die intellektuelle Bedeutung von Troeltsch sowohl für die Demokratiediskurse der ersten deutschen Republik als auch für die Frage nach der Orientierungskraft von „Geschichte“ für die moderne Gesellschaft, insbesondere für die „Europadiskurse“ des 20. Jahrhunderts.