Rywalizacja o pamięć. Spór wokół upamiętnienia niemieckich ofiar w serbskim Vršacu
Rivalry of Memory: Commemorating German Victims in the Serbian Town of Vršac

Summary/Abstract: Giergiel examines the dispute surrounding the commemoration of ethnic Germanskilled in the Serbian town of Vršac in 1944. The analysis refers to the metaphor ofmemory knots, which suggests the existence of contradictory and irreconcilableideas. The place where the victims’ remains are buried has become one such memoryknot. A government-approved monument was to be erected, but the debate about ithighlights the clash of minority memories in Serbia (German and Jewish) that seem tobe fighting for space in the dominant narrative.

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