CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Komoly, Gabriella Kamilla |
|---|---|
| Title | Bystanders of the Holocaust in Budapest-a typology based on the narrative reconstruction of "onlookers" |
| Summary | The present thesis aims to investigate how non-Jewish bystanders of the Holocaust perceived the othering of Jews and their persecutions in Budapest. It also intends to show how bystanders reflect on these processes now, from the perspective of the present, when more than 70 years have passed since the end of the Second World War. The thesis builds on an interdisciplinary framework that includes a historical, psychological and a memory studies approach. There is a typology of the passive bystanders provided in this thesis based on the theoretical framework and on the analysis of four narrative life-history interviews. The findings of the thesis are reflected in the typology: 1) bystanders who replace the Jewish tragedy with their own tragedy, 2) bystanders who compensate for the Jews in order to find relief from the repression of their traumatic memories, 3) bystanders who felt closer to the Jewish cultural environment before the war and sought to maintain it after the war as well and 4) bystanders who try to avoid facing the Holocaust past but are reminded by traces of it. Key words: bystanders, Budapest, bystander phenomenon, Holocaust, narrative interview, reconstruction of memories |
| Supervisor | Kovács M. Mária, Andrea Pető |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/komoly_gabriella.pdf |
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