Once there was a life, a family, a community. They loved. They danced. They fought. They floundered. As I leave what I hope will be my first Centropa experience, I remain focused on the concept of memorialization. But this time instead of my conflict with memory through monument from an earlier blog, I am at ease with film as memory. At previous conferences including those I have attended as both participant and as facilitator, we would have many lectures: historians, authors, practitioners, and museum faculty.
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