Memorial Complexes, Rayzebilder, Testimony: A Spatial Approach to Holocaust Memory in Belarus (and Beyond)

Anika Walke, the Askwith Family Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at CMU, will deliver the third Annual Renee Sachs Memorial Lecture in Holocaust Studies at the University of Pittsburgh: “Memorial Complexes, Rayzebilder, Testimony:  A spatial approach to Holocaust memory in Belarus (and beyond).” The memory of the Holocaust and World War II in Belarus is deeply inscribed into the local landscape. The lecture introduces works by the Yiddish writer Hirsh Reles and memorials created by architect Leonid Levin to explore how legacies of systematic violence shape the natural and built environment in the former Soviet Union.