Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
Memory Works
The Cultures of Memory
Contained Memory
For items tagged with: family history
In the cellar of the Duisburg metalworkers’ union on 2 May 1933, four trade unionists, one of them my great-grandfather, were beaten and shot by Nazis. Outside the cellar is a row of square iron chairs, a memorial. For me, this is a place of ghostly presence, a threshold between the violent past and the […]