Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stanger-Ross, Jordan
• Marks, Lynne

Titel

Remembering the Holocaust in a Settler Colonial City: The Case of Victoria, Canada

Ist Teil von

• History and memory, 2022-03, Vol.34 (1), p.100-132

Ort / Verlag

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article tells the history of Kristallnacht commemorations in the small Jewish community of Victoria, British Columbia. From their founding in the 1980s, the ceremonies were intended to include members of the general public, in addition to the Jewish community, but the events changed over time, when organizers began to include indigenous people as active participants, and the history of colonialism became a key theme in Kristallnacht remembrance. Suggesting that this orientation positioned members of the local Jewish community as implicated in historical injustice, even on the occasion of Holocaust remembrance, the authors explore the history behind this development and consider its implications today.