Landscapes of Traumatic Memory: Cultural Histories of Former National Socialist Extermination Camps in Poland

At a glance

Project duration
03/2013  – 06/2015
Funded by

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Project description

The project aims to reconstruct and culturally analyze the strategies of Holocaust and II World War commemoration as applied in the sites of former NS extermination camps in Poland (Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Kulmhof)

Principal investigator

  • Person

    Prof. Dr. Michael Wildt

    • Department of History
    • Historical Dictatorship Research with one focus on National Socialism