Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Bărbulescu, Ana
Year: 2013
Title: Identity Construction and Consonant Memories. The Holocaust or the Exquisiteness of the Dacians?
Journal: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări
Issue: 6
Pages: 118-133
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, sociology, holocaust denial, recollection, ethnic identity, World War II, holocaust, social groups, public opinion
Abstract: (En) The study I propose turns toward Holocaust denial from the perspective offered by the sociology of knowledge, depicting our attitude toward the tragedy of the Romanian Jews as
part of the process of social construction that characterizes any domain of the social world. Starting from here and according to the approach I propose, any attitude regarding Romania's participation to the extermination of hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Second World War should be analyzed in correlation with the identity model constructed for
the Romanian people while this identity model is considered to be strongly determined by the mnemonic narrative we accept as historical truth.