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World War 2.0: commemorating war and holocaust in Poland through Facebook

@inproceedings{Bruyn2010WorldW2,
  title={World War 2.0: commemorating war and holocaust in Poland through Facebook},
  author={Dieter De Bruyn},
  year={2010}
}

Dieter De Bruyn

Published 2010

Art

The Internet seems to have become the area where instances of individual and collective remembrance, of private and public commemoration, and of memory and postmemory intersect in a new and effective way. This article explores two Polish examples of World War II and Holocaust commemoration that have recently been issued on Facebook: the Warsaw Rising commemorative campaign and the educational project on the young Holocaust victim Henio Żytomirski. As the analysis demonstrates, what determines… CONTINUE READING

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