by Johana Wyss was published in
Global Reflections upon Remembering War
Edited by Catherine Gilbert, Kate McLoughlin and Niall Munro
How, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military veterans and scholars debate these questions and ponder the future of commemoration. They include the world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz, the award-winning novelists Aminatta Forna and Rachel Seiffert, and the human rights lawyer and Gifford Baillie Prize-winner Philippe Sands. Polemics and reflections together with poetry and creative prose movingly illuminate a subject that speaks to our common humanity.

A tombstone in the village of Třebom, the Hlučín area. ©Johana Wyss
After the forced displacement of the German speaking native inhabitants of the Třebom village in 1945, the symbolic landscape was also ‘de-Germanised’. Interestingly, the newcomers who repopulated the village decided not to destroy the tombstones in the village cemetery but ‘only’ to cover the German inscriptions with metal plaques (already removed in the picture).
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Johana Wyss (14 février 2021). Stones do not Forget: Forgetting and Being Forgotten in Czech Silesia. Mémoires défaites / Defeated memories. Consulté le 24 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/nho8