The Shoah from a „bottom up” perspective

Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem

Szociológia Doktori Iskola

Vajda Júlia

szociológiai tudományok

There is just a tiny proportion in the huge literature of the Shoah that deals with the experiences of the everyday man ‒ irrespectively of which “side” he was part of at the time of the persecution of the Jewish population or from which “side” his/her ancestry is from. Alongside the however low voice of the survivors and their descendants, the voice of the perpetrators and bystanders and their descendants is missing. According to it, I would happily supervise the doctoral thesis of students, who are curious of these voices, the remembrance of the Shoah, and would like to find them either in Hungary or abroad, either related to the Hungarian Shoah or the genocide abroad, concerning any timeslot of the elapsed more than 70 years and also of the period making the society ready for accepting it. Research of these, of course, integrates working through both, the literature on memory in a broader sense and also that concentrates just on this period and empirical research, too. However, by now, this latter includes interviewing the few last living members of the generation that witnessed the Shoah and their descendants and written material, as diaries, letters and memoirs.

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Szociológia Doktori Iskola

2020-04-30

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