Is a common European Holocaust memory possible? The author approaches this question by analyzing Polish and German cinema after 1989, and the public debates on the past that have surrounded the filmic narratives. Furthermore the author shows how cinema opened hitherto taboo aspects to discussion.

Ma?gorzata Pakier is Assistant Professor at the Warsaw University for Social Sciences and Humanities, and Head of the Research and Publications Department at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. In 2010 she received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, and was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her fields of expertise include Holocaust representation, and memory cultures and politics in the East European and European context.

Contents: Holocaust representation and memory – Europeanization of memory – Historical cultures in Germany and Poland after World War Two and since 1989 – History in film – Memory media.