Category: imaginary

Mariangela Chatzistamatiou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The presentation explores the transformation of mourning practices among Greek Jews in relation to the Holocaust, focusing on the stark contrast between the impossibility of mourning within the Auschwitz camps and the reemergence of grief, ritual, and remembrance in its aftermath. In the camp environment, where death was constant,… Continue reading Liberation and the Politics of Mourning: Jewish Memory through Musical Expression

Evlampia Tsireli Aristotle University of Thessaloniki This paper will focus on the stages of research and creation of a graphic novel based on the ladino (Judeo-Spanish) testimony of Samuel Profeta, available at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Sam Profeta was a Holocaust survivor from Thessaloniki. Known to the Jews of Thessaloniki as “Uncle… Continue reading “The Promise”: Testimony and post-liberation life in a graphic novel metanarrative 

Sasha Colby  Simon Fraser University The complexity and diversity of WW II liberation has revealed itself to me through two of my bookprojects in ways I believe can be productively compared. The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story ofUkrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance (ECW Press, 2023),recounts the Ostarbeiter experience of my grandmother, Irina Kylynych, as it coincided with theresistance work of Leica Camera heiress, Elsie Kühn-Leitz. For Irina, the story of Wetzlar’sliberation the spring of 1945 was particularly difficult to tell: while she eventually escaped to Canada,“liberation” was a complex moment of hiding in DP camps, posing as Polish, Soviet capture, escape,… Continue reading Telling ‘Liberation’ Differently: Ukrainian female forced labourer oral history vs. the French POW story in Cartier-Bresson’s Le Retour 

Ramatu Musa Université de Lausanne Coercion and complicity are among the two discursive themes that can be found in historic debates about the non-German women who associated with Nazi men during the Second World War. Norway was a fringe theatre of the Second World War; and the 1940-1945 Nazi occupation of the country is an… Continue reading “Achtung, Gnädiges Fräulein”: Figurations of Female Vulnerability, Humiliation, and Sexual Coercion in Torborg Nedreaas’ Fiction of Nazi-Occupied Norway

Sara Delmedico University of Bologna Through an interdisciplinary approach, this paper analyses women’s condition in post-World War II Italy and highlights how the end of war and return to peace was a contradictory and profoundly ambivalent process. Luigi Zampa’s movie L’onorevole Angelina (1947) is used as a case study to demonstrate how women’s inclusion in active citizenship,… Continue reading Women, Liberation and Rights in Post-War Italy: L’onorevole Angelina (1947) by Luigi Zampa

Nicolas G. Virtue – Department of History, King’s University College at Western University, Canada DOI 10.53258/ISSN.2785-261X/OI/04/1229 Introduction In February 1943, propaganda officers of the Italian Second army in occupied Yugoslavia struggled against the grim reality of recent events: Axis forces had suffered serious reverses in North Africa and Russia; Italian cities were increasingly falling prey… Continue reading The spatial imaginary of the Balkans in second world war Italian service newspapers

Ornella Castiglione – Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca DOI 10.53258/ISSN.2785-261X/OI/04/1242 Introduzione L’articolo si propone di inquadrare le cinematografie di due Paesi dell’area balcanica, quali l’Albania e la ex-Jugoslavia, al fine di individuare dei tratti comuni che permettono di far convergere la lettura di alcune opere significative riguardo alla tematica dei territori occupati. Il corpus maggiore… Continue reading I Balcani nel cinema: storie e immagini di territori occupati tra ex-Jugoslavia e Albania

Anthony B. Smith
Paisan, Roberto Rossellini’s film about the battle for and occupation of Italy by Allied forces during World War II, played for sixteen weeks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1949.

Cosimo Tassinari
Tra il 1945 e il 1954 Trieste e una parte dei territori della Venezia Giulia furono amministrati dall’Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (AMGOT). La produzione documentaria e cinegiornalistica che racconta quel particolare periodo storico si offre oggi come strumento importante per analizzare e individuare le diverse forme di costruzione di una memoria nazionale condivisa.