A Hero¿s Many Faces

Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments
2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-36145-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 425 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: The Holocaust and its Contexts

Raoul Wallenberg is remembered for his humanitarian activity on behalf of the Hungarian Jews at the end of World War II, and as the Swedish diplomat who disappeared into the Soviet Gulag in 1945. This book examines how thirty-one Wallenberg monuments, in twelve countries on five continents commemorate the man.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schult, T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: RAOUL WALLENBERG The Monuments' Protagonist Raoul Wallenberg's Life, Mission and Fate Raoul Wallenberg in Historiography and Popular Imagination Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero's Tale The Monuments as Part of the Wallenberg Commemoration PART II: THE RAOUL WALLENBERG MONUMENTS  Raoul Wallenberg's Deed Raoul Wallenberg's Fate Raoul Wallenberg's Legacy Raoul Wallenberg's Insubordination PART III: CHALLENGES, COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS Catalogue of the Monuments Notes Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

TANJA SCHULT Researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden, and is working as a freelance curator. She was previously employed at Södertörn University College. Educated in the History of Art and Scandinavian Studies in Erlangen, Lund and Berlin, she completed her PhD in 2007 at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.