Verslag samengesteld op verzoek van het Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport door drs. Ans Buys (voorzitter ADEF en directeur Fontys Lerarenopleiding Tilburg.
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This study explored Dutch people's expected intensity of emotional responses of a potential visit to a concentration camp memorial site in the Netherlands. A total of 1050 online panel members participated in a questionnaire that contained a 33-item emotion scale. Results reveal that individuals with a closeness to the Holocaust expect to feel most emotions more intensely, specifically emotions that are traditionally considered ‘positive’, such as pride, love, joy, inspiration, excitement and affection. Overall, respondents expect to feel disgust, shock, compassion and sadness the strongest. Those who look from the viewpoint of the offenders mainly expect to feel emotions that are traditionally considered ‘negative’, whereas those who took the point of view of the victims also expect a more ‘positive’ emotional reaction to the visit. Managerial implications address aspects of education, storytelling and authenticity.
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Summary of the article on the visit to Ukraine by students and teachers of the Secondary Teacher Training College Sittard (Part of Fontys University of Applied Sciences), by Maurice Heemels. In march 2009 a delegation of students and teachers of the Secondary Teacher Training College Sittard visited Ukraine. Their goal was to learn about the Holocaust in Ukraine between 1941 and 1944 and to experience how Ukrainian teachers deal with this topic in school nowadays. The delegation learned that teaching Ukrainian children about the Holocaust in their country is still in an early stage. But that can be seen a very positive, because for many years the Holocaust was a 'forbidden topic'. During the Soviet years talking and writing about the Holocaust was almost impossible and even after Ukraine had become independent (1991) it was rather unusual to do so. One of the other reasons why the Holocaust was rarely spoken about, was probably the fact that many Ukrainians had supported the German occupants in persecuting their Jewish neighbours. As a matter of fact, the persecution of Jews in Eastern parts of Europe was even more inhumane and violent than in Western Europe. Ukraine is full of places connected with this horrible part of its history. Until recently many Ukrainians, especially younger ones, didn't even seem to know the meaning of the word 'Holocaust' itself. Since a few years however, Ukrainian and foreign historians have begun to write about this almost unknown part of the Ukrainian history. And in schools, teachers have carefully begun to tell their students about it. Ukrainian history teacher Olexandr, 'Sacha' Voytenko travels through his immense country to inspire his colleagues in teaching about the Holocaust. In a quite impressive workshop he showed our delegation several ways 'to do it'. The time spent in Ukrainian classrooms on the topic is still relatively small, but can - regarding the past years of 'absolute silence' - be seen as an important break-through. The article will be published in: Kleio, Tijdschrift van de Vereniging van docenten Geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland (Dutch association of teachers and students of history), volume 7, november 2009.In maart van dit jaar bezochten studenten geschiedenis en docenten van de Fontys Lerarenopleiding Sittard Oekraïne. Ze deden dat samen met andere Nederlandse en Belgische studenten en docenten om meer te weten te komen over de Holocaust in het land en de omgang met dit pijnlijke thema in het Oekraïense geschiedenisonderwijs. Dit artikel is een verslag van de bevindingen van de Limburgse delegatieleden.
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This study examined the motivations to visit concentration camp memorial sites in the Netherlands. Nine hundred and seventy-five Dutch respondents participated in a panel survey. The data were analysed by means of an exploratory factor analysis, to yield underlying motivational factors. The findings revealed that potential visitors were motivated to visit Holocaust concentration camp memorial sites for “memory”, “gaining knowledge and awareness”, and “exclusivity”. We generalize the motivations from Dutch concentration camp memorial sites to a universal level and discuss the future stages to achieve a universally valid motivation scale for visits to concentration camp memorial sites.
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Even though more than seventy-five years have passed since the end of WWII, its prominence in entertainment media productions along with the global emergence of memorial markers have contributed to its omnipresence in people’s minds. Nevertheless, the perception of this historical event is still far from reaching consensus as nations tend to interpret and remember episodes in accordance with their perspective, thus adding up to the complexity of WWII and of Holocaust memories. With this in mind, this article describes the idiosyncrasies of Portugal’s recent tribute and remembrance strategies for the victims of WWII. The country’s neutral status, along with a set of cultural and historical specifics, has led to the dissemination of tropes leading to the idea of Portugal as an inherently tolerant and mild-mannered nation. A perception that is often fostered by resorting to monuments, museums, tourism and leisure activities. Despite evidence provided, mostly, by recent academic studies and documentary films, these tropes continue to fuel Portuguese popular imagination and are still prevalent in some recently established WWII memory places.
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Many, many comparisons have been drawn in recent years between the current rise of (right-wing) populism and the financial crisis of 2008 that shook and continues to shake Europe to its core, and the tumultuous and horrifying events of the 1930s, which in the end resulted in the Second World War. A number of recent studies which (partially) focus on this decade carry ominous titles like To Hell and Back, The Age of Catastrophe and The Triumph of the Dark. Referred to by some historians as the second Thirty Years’ War, the period from the First World War to the end of the Second still continues to draw much academic and indeed public attention. In many cases, Germany deservedly plays a central role in the analysis, either in the form of the Kaiserreich or the ill-fated Weimar Republic and, of course, Nazi Germany. The five books under review here discuss European history between 1914 and 1950 in general, and that of Germany in particular, in this period. What do these books tell us about Europe’s and Germany’s path in the first half of the twentieth century, and what new insights do they provide? https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691418777981 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martijn-lak-71793013/
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