memory, genre and the life writings of Greta Kuckhoff
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sayner, Joanne
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- DUI 9 KUC 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- verzetsbeweging, nationaal socialisme, anti fascisme, Duitsland, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Using previously unpublished archival sources, this book traces the life writings of Greta Kuckhoff (1902-1981). It draws attention to gendered politics of remembering, to the role of memories of the Holocaust, and to the political identities offered by these diverse forms of commemoration. Greta Kuckhoff belonged to the German anti-Nazi resistance group 'Rote Kapelle’and was condemned to death in 1943. Her sentence was later commuted to imprisonment and she was liberated by the Red Army in 1945. She spent the next thirty years working to commemorate the group's antifascist resistance. Through radio broadcasts, letters, exhibitions, journal articles, film, and autobiography, she fought against Cold War narratives which condemned the group as traitors or hailed them as Soviet spies.