After the genocide 1945-. Lecture with Ingjerd Veiden Brakstad

A lecture about a time of crisis.

At the liberation in 1945, the Norwegian Jews were in a unique situation. They had not lost the war – but so much more. What did they find when they returned home? In a time marked by grief, uncertainty and loss, they had to rebuild their lives from scratch.

Our post-war period is also a "post-genocide period", but this was not always understood by the wider society in the period after 1945. In this lecture, historian Ingjerd Veiden Brakstad provides insight into the lives of some of the Norwegians who had survived the genocide and how life unfolded afterwards.

In 2021, the Society published the book series "Kristetid" which was to address various crises in Norwegian history. Brakstad's book "After the Genocide. 1945-" goes into the crisis period of the Norwegian Jews after the Second World War. "This is a book about what it is like to not be included in the collective narrative, and to have an experience that is radically different from the national collective memory." writes Ida Jahr, in Forskerforum.

Ingjerd Veiden Brakstad is a historian and researcher at the Falstad Center. She works particularly with questions about how genocide is understood and portrayed by distant and close spectators in the present and afterwards. She has a doctorate from NTNU on a thesis about the Norwegian press coverage of the genocides in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-95) and Rwanda (1994).

The lecture is in Norwegian. Free admission.

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