The subject of this thesis is the development of Holocaust
commemoration in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia in the
period between 1943-1975. In much of the current literature, the
two decades following the Second World War are considered to have
been a time when the Holocaust was virtually absent from the public
discourse of North American Jewry. Commemoration, according to
this view, is said to have been a private affair limited to
survivors, a situation which changed only after the appearance of
neo-Nazism in the early 1960s, the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961,
and particularly in the wake of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and
1973.
Based on my own study of the oral and documentary materials
pertaining to Warsaw Ghetto memorials in Vancouver, I argue that
these assessments, which are largely based on the official
announcements and priorities of the national Jewish leadership, are
of limited value in a community context, where there is evidence of
a considerable variety of responses to the murder of European Jewry
long before the awareness-raising events said to have initiated
"Holocaust consciousness".
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/12751 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Schober, Barbara |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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