The heritage of a transit camp : Fossoli: history, memory, aesthetics / edited by Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Roberta Mira and Daniele Salerno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cassani Simonetti, Matteo, editor.

Mira, Roberta, 1973- editor.

Salerno, Daniele, 1980- editor.

Series:

Cultural memories ; v. 16.

Cultural memories, 2235-2325 ; vol. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museo monumento al deportato politico e razziale (Carpi, Italy).

Fossoli di Carpi (Concentration camp).

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Italy--Carpi.

World War, 1939-1945.

Prisoners of war--Italy--Carpi--History--20th century.

Prisoners of war.

Prisoners of war--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Jews--Persecutions--Italy.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions.

History.

Collective memory.

Italy.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Collective memory--Italy--Carpi.

Internment camps.

Nazi concentration camps.

Fossoli di Carpi (Concentration camp)--History.

Fossoli di Carpi (Prisoner of war camp : 1942-1943).

Carpi (Italy)--History--20th century.

Carpi (Italy).

Museo monumento al deportato politico e razziale (Carpi, Italy)--History.

Great Britain.

Italy--Carpi.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 324 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Fossoli: history, memory, aesthetics

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021]

Summary:

"The former camp of Fossoli in the North of Italy was established in 1942 by the Royal Italian Army as a camp for prisoners of war, later being a Nazi-Fascist concentration and transit camp for political opponents, Jews and forced labourers; after the war it became a Catholic community for orphans and a camp for refugees from the former Italian territories of Istria until 1970. A complex system of memory and heritage stemmed from the legacy of the former camp: its remains, the Museum and Monument to the Political and Racial Deportee by architects BBPR and the synagogues of Carpi. The Fondazione Fossoli, created in Carpi in 1996, manages this legacy with the purpose of preserving and transmitting the historical memory of the Fossoli camp. Linking together the history of the Holocaust, of the Resistance to Nazi-Fascism and of the political and civic commitment that inspired the birth of the Italian Republic after the dictatorship and the war, Fossoli lies at the very core of Italy's contemporary cultural memory. The essays in this volume analyse, from different disciplinary perspectives, the material and immaterial heritage that constitutes today a rich and articulated memorial system"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. At the Roots of the Fossoli Foundation: The Fossoli Camp / Marzia Luppi

2. The Southern Terminal. Italy and the Memories of Deportation: A Transnational Perspective / Lorenzo Bertucelli

3. The Fossoli Foundation and Its Heritage of History and Memory / Roberta Mira

4. In Memory of the Other Resistance: The Places and Architecture of the Fossoli Memorial / Giovanni Leoni

5. Pensaci, uomo!: Holocaust Memory, the Photo-Icon-Object and Licalbe Steiner at Carpi / Robert S. C. Gordon

6. Rethinking Trauma, Rethinking History: The Case of Fossoli-Carpi / Patrizia Violi

7. Domesticity and Sacredness in Synagogue Architecture: The Oratory and Temple in Carpi (1722

1921) / Matteo Cassani Simonetti

8. The Afterlife of the Fossoli Camp / Daniele Salerno

9. The Remains and the Landscape: Strategies for Active Conservation of the Former Campo di Fossoli / Andrea Ugolini.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Heritage of a transit camp

ISBN:

9781789979046

1789979048

OCLC:

1273916196

Publisher Number:

99988703117