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Flyer IHRA.Indd International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Ed.) Killing Sites Research and Remembrance Co-Ed.: Steering Committee: Dr. Thomas Lutz (Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin), Dr. David Silberklang (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem), Dr. Piotr Trojański (Institute of History, Pedagogical University of Krakow), Dr. Juliane Wetzel (Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin), Dr. Miriam Bistrovic (Project Coordinator) IHRA series, vol. 1 More than 2,000,000 Jews were killed by shooting during the Holocaust Metropol Verlag at several thousand mass killing sites across Europe. e International März 2015 Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) aims to raise awareness of ISBN: ---- this centrally important aspect of the Holocaust by bringing together Seiten · ,– Euro organizations and individuals dealing with the subject. is publication is the rst relatively comprehensive and up-to-date anthology on the topic that re ects both the research and the eldwork on the Killing Sites. ........................................................................................................................................ INTRODUCTORY LECTURES REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES David Silberklang: Killing Sites – Research and Remembrance Jacek Waligóra: “Periphery of Remembrance”. Dobromil and Lacko Introduction to the Conference and IHRA Perspective Alti Rodal: e Ukrainian Jewish Encounter’s Position and Dieter Pohl: Historiography and Nazi Killing Sites Aims in Relation to Killing Sites in the Territory of Ukraine Andrej Angrick: Operation 1005: e Nazi Regime’s Meylakh Sheykhet: e Association of Jewish Organizations Attempt to Erase Traces of Mass Murder and Communities (VAAD) of Ukraine Caroline Sturdy Colls: Learning from the Present Agnieszka Nieradko: Rabbinical Commission for Jewish to Understand the Past: Forensic and Archaeological Cemeteries in Poland Approaches to Sites of the Holocaust Adam Bartosz: Ways of Commemorating Roma Extermination Michael Schudrich: Jewish Law and Exhumation Sites in Poland Andrew Baker: Protecting the Mass Graves of Holocaust INTERNATIONAL PIONEERS/PROJECTS Victims in the Construction of the Bełżec Memorial Dariusz Pawłoś: Personal Losses and Victims of Repression Patrick Desbois: Yahad – In Unum’s Research under the German Occupation of Mass Grave Sites of Holocaust Victims Astrid Sahm: Holocaust Memorials in the Belarusian Culture of Deidre Berger: Protecting Memory: Preserving and Remembrance. e Issue of the Maly Trostenets Death Camp Memorializing the Holocaust Mass Graves of Eastern Europe Michael Lazarus: e Belarus Memorials Project: e Simon Meilech Bindinger: Cemeteries and Mass Graves are at Mark Lazarus Foundation, e Miles and Marilyn Kletter Risk. e Lo-Tishkach Approach – Advocating Enhanced Family Foundation, e Geisler Family Foundation Standardized Pan-European Legislation Milda Jakulytė-Vasil: Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania Lea Prais: On Yad Vashem’s Project of Registration and Vesna Teršelič. Ongoing Memory Struggles in Croatia and Mapping of Murder Sites of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Other Post-Yugoslav Countries – e Case for Additional Territories of the Former Soviet Union Research on the Fate of ose Murdered at “Killing Sites” ........................................................................................................................................ Metropol Verlag Ansbacher Straße | D- Berlin Telefon (030) 23 00 46 23 | Telefax (030) 2 65 05 18 [email protected] www.metropol-verlag.de.
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