03/29/2021
Join SHC History (alongside co-hosts Iowa State, Wyoming, Syracuse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) on Thursday, April 15th, from 6-7pm Central for Dr. Jelena Subotic's virtual lecture, "Abandoned Memorial: State Collapse and the Yugoslav Exhibition at Auschwitz."
Link to register is here. For those in Central time, please note that the confirmation will say 7pm Eastern but the event will be at 6pm our time! https://ushmm.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uZEi4WN9SSy_9_d6qGBjgg
Dr. Subotic will discuss: What happens to Holocaust memory in the aftermath of state collapse? During the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, more than 20,000 Jews, communists, Roma and other “enemies” of the Third Reich were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp. Very few survived. At the end of World War II, communist Yugoslavia opened a national exhibition at Auschwitz Memorial Museum meant to honor Yugoslav victims murdered there. After Yugoslavia collapsed in a series of wars in the 1990s, successor states could no longer agree on what should be presented at the Yugoslav exhibition, and “Block 17” where it was housed remains empty and abandoned. This lecture offers an overview of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia and explains how Holocaust memory becomes politicized at times of great social change.
We look forward to welcoming Dr. Subotic to our campuses virtually and we hope you can attend!
