The Generation of Postmemory The First Maus 1972

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The Generation of Postmemory

The Generation of Postmemory

The First Maus (1972). Spiegelman can imagine his father’s experience in Auschwitz only by

The First Maus (1972). Spiegelman can imagine his father’s experience in Auschwitz only by relating it to this public image, which was added to the family album and made personal by the arrow pointing to “Poppa”.

Woman with children in German death camp Auschwitz in Poland during Second World War.

Woman with children in German death camp Auschwitz in Poland during Second World War. Documentary photos of the crimes of Eichmann, murderer of the Jews. Facist criminals like Eichman did not even halt for the elderly and the children. Here, children and an old woman on the way to the death barracks of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Thousands of wedding rings confiscated from Jews at Buchenwald concentration camp by the Germans to salvage the gold, May 1945.

Hirsch also reflects upon Jan Assmann’s work Das Kulturelle Gedächtnis, in which Jan Assmann

Hirsch also reflects upon Jan Assmann’s work Das Kulturelle Gedächtnis, in which Jan Assmann distinguishes a collective remembrance, “communicative” memory and “cultural” memory: Communicative memory – biographical, factual, located within a generation of contemporaries who witness an event as adults, and who can pass on their bodily and affective connection to that event to their descendants. Cultural Memory – memories from the areas, places, presented in buildings, landmarks etc; an institutionalized hegemonic archival memory.

Austerlitz (2001) Maus (1987)

Austerlitz (2001) Maus (1987)

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