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Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Ljubelj/Loibl (Unterloibl, Loibl-Pass Süd, Loibl-Pass South), a sub-camp of the KZ Mauthausen.

Seventy years after the end of the Second World War and liberation of the concentration camps the questions of intergenerational transmission of memory, education about the Holocaust and also questions about the extinction procedures of race and political enemies of the Nazi State, are more imminent than ever. However, besides these enumerated questions, contested representations of the past, we sometimes tend to forget (especially in the communities historically inclined to mental and cultural homogenization), can be different and viewed from different angles and perspectives – but all are, nevertheless, in relation to power, identity and institutional politics of memory/oblivion. The symposium will address all these significant themes which will be debated in relation to concentration camps, especially the ones intended for political prisoners and “Total-State” enemies (Ljubelj/Loibl camp was one of those), and Nazi politics in the “concentrationary universe” (l’univers concentrationnaire by David Rousset). It will question how discourses and representations shape the past, how they’re produced, reproduced and challenged. It will examine various representations of concentration camps, differences between notions of memory and history, and discuss the role that community memory has in modelling and transmitting meanings, values and identities.

Speakers (alphabetic order):
Dr. Edith Blaschitz, Donau University Krems
Prof. Jean-François Forges, professor of history, Lyon, France
MMag. Erich Herber, Donau University Krems
Mag. Otto Hochreiter, City Museum, Graz & Treasurer, ICOM Österreich
Dr. Marija Juric Pahor, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana
Prof. Peter Gstettner, Mauthausen Komitee Klagenfurt/Celovec
Mag. Monika Kokalj Kocevar, Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana
Dr. Taja Kramberger, independent researcher, Koper/Capodistria, Paris, France
Mag. Dr. Gerti Malle, Memory Site of the Mauthausen satellite camp Loibl-North, guide, Klagenfurt/Celovec
Frédérique Neau-Dufour, Director of European Centre of the Deported Members of the Resistance Memory Site of the former camp Natzweiler-Struthof
Christian Tessier, independent researcher, France
Mag. Tadeja Tominšek, Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana
DDr. Verena Vidrih Perko, Director for Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Ljubljana

Themes:
Politics of memory and oblivion in connection to the concentration camps
Presentations and representations of concentration camps (print media, manuals, official sources, digital spaces etc.)
Testimonies of the KLs, trauma and survivor’s narratives
Intergenerational transmission of values and knowledge on the concentration camps, pedagogy of the Shoah/Holocaust
Historical accounts, interpretations, public memory/oblivion and civic education in connection to the heritage of concentration camps

Programm:

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Foto-Credit: Konzentrationslager Loibl, 1947 (https://jsegalavienne.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/un-film-qui-en-dit-long/)