What was particularly striking about the Biķernieki Forest memorial site was that the accompanying information panels were co-organized and co-financed by German associations and governmental institutions.
This also led to a question raised by one of the participants, Lia, regarding the depiction of Jews, or victims more generally. She pointed to the difficulty of maintaining a neutral stance when the perpetrator nation, even decades later, contributes its own perspective to the historical narrative.
The majority of the Jewish images displayed on these information panels are German perpetrator photographs, which is somewhat problematic. Ilya pointed out that
Ilya pointed out that particular effort had been made to select images of the perpetrators in which they appeared humiliated or, at the very least, not shown in typical uniformed, authoritative, or smiling poses, whereas Jewish victims were predominantly depicted in degrading or humiliating situations.
Comments
Post a Comment