Irak is als meer dan veertig jaar in staat van oorlog, maar kent nauwelijks officiële herdenkingen. Amir Taha over de dynamiek van het Iraakse collectieve geheugen. 

Een geschiedenis bestempelen als 'vergeten' biedt de mogelijkheid om die naar eigen inzicht te interpreteren, zonder per se kennis te nemen van historische feiten. Anne-Lise Bodeldijk analyseert wat dit betekent aan de hand van het recent verschenen 'Nederland en de herinnering aan de Jodenvervolging" 

Vergeten. Verzwegen. Onderbelicht. Ondergesneeuwd. Wat hebben die termen te maken met herinneren en herdenken? Cristan van Emden legt het uit. 

Erik Schumacher bespreekt twee tentoonstellingen over "vergeten" slachtoffergroepen: patiënten van psychiatrische instellingen en tewerkgestelden. Wat is het verhaal over kennis en erkenning dat wordt uitgedragen? 

Vergeten is niet simpelweg het tegenovergestelde van weten, stelde Shoshana Felman al in 1982. Wat is het dan wel? In ieder geval weerbarstig, bepleit redacteur Matthijs Kuipers. 

This article provides a Swedish perspective on critical memory culture and the use of difficult history in museum education. It is based on a detailed study of the educational resource the Teacher’s Guide, published by the Swedish Museum of Cultural History in Lund named Kulturen in 2006 in connection with their permanent exhibition, To Survive. Voices from Ravensbrück. The Guide shows how women, imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, found ways to resist their situation and overcome their victim position.

Transcarpathia is a border and mostly mountainous region with a rather complex ethnographic and religious mosaic. It borders 4 countries (Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia), and geographically is the westernmost part of Ukraine. These factors contributed to the shape of a local multicultural population with fluid identities and very specific worldviews. The deepening of cultural ruptures is increased by regional historical memory, which shows the past in a way that is not described in the official historical grand narrative.

This study focuses on hippocampal and amygdala volume, seed-based connectivity, and psychological traits of Holocaust survivors who experienced stress during prenatal and early postnatal development. We investigated people who lived in Central Europe during the Holocaust and who, as Jews, were in imminent danger. The group who experienced stress during their prenatal development and early postnatal (PreP) period (n = 11) were compared with a group who experienced Holocaust-related stress later in their lives: in late childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood (ChA) (n = 21).

In addition to being an external event, the COVID-19 outbreak is a psychological event. As such, it elicits associations, memories, and metaphors around which threat perceptions are organized. These processes are likely to be especially significant among individuals who have experienced traumatic life events.

During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army forced many girls and women from Taiwan, Korea, China, and other Asian countries to serve as sexual slaves to the soldiers. Although the exploitative system of “comfort women” was widespread, its effects on the survivors’ identities throughout their lifetimes as well as its intergenerational effects on their families remain insufficiently explored in the existing literature.