A March of Memory in Sighet: The Legacy of Elie Wiesel
A March of Memory in Sighet: The Legacy of Elie Wiesel

Summary/Abstract: Place is inextricably linked to identity, history, experience and, as a result, human memory, transforming what might be a public, physical location into a personal, intimate association. A place of memory, however, is further transformed by translating the personal into collective significance. With many locations possessing attributes that enable this conversion, what is it that makes a place a „place of memory?” Is it instilled by the visitors, or is it innately imposed by the history of that place? Does the place itself – its physical reality, its geographic location – construct the memory? Or do the stories of its history as well as the inherited memory of its residents’ past and present and their recollections of the people, the streets, the community, construct the significance of the place, wherein the physical location matters very little?

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