Description:
Now maintained as a museum and memorial site, the former camp of Fossoli was a Nazi concentration and transit camp for political opponents, Jews and forced labourers. The essays in this volume analyse, from different disciplinary perspectives, the material and immaterial heritage that constitutes a rich and articulated memorial system today.
Review Quotes:
The Heritage of a Transit Camp. Fossoli: History, Memory and Aesthetics is a highly original and important volume which will be of great interest for scholars of the Shoah, political deportation and fascism, and memory as well as general readers. A crucial site of Italian history and politics has finally been given the multi-layered and critical study which it deserves. (Professor John Foot, University of Bristol)
This powerful, absolutely essential collection of essays on the heritage of the Fossoli transit camp shines a searing light on the interpenetration of history and memory at the locus of Italy's Holocaust memorial culture. The brilliant approach to the ongoing excavation and cultivation of memory at Fossoli is a cutting edge model for how we understand the long, living duration of Holocaust memorial sites everywhere. (Professor James E. Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)