The new forms of Holocaust distortions and what to do about them?
The memory of the Holocaust is a pillar of the post-World War Two global world order. As such, it has been promoted by various international organizations and educational programs. Antiliberal forces mobilizing against this understanding are successfully trying to build up the institutional system and language of antiliberal Holocaust Studies.
Drawing on the examples of the Chana Szenes statues, the Budapest ghetto memorial, and the Shoah Bunker, this lecture introduces three types of Holocaust distortion: the antiliberal transformative distortion, the “profit-driven” distortion and the practice of “performative contradiction”.
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About Andrea Peto
Andrea Pető is Professor of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, and Doctor of Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on gender, politics, and the Holocaust, highlighting underexplored topics such as sexual violence and women as perpetrators during wartime. She is the author of Forgotten Massacre: Budapest 1944 (2021) and The Women of the Arrow Cross Party (2020), co-editor of influential works on gender and Holocaust studies, and hosts a multilingual podcast on WWII history and memory.
