The sociologist Anna Susak from the Center for Urban History in L’viv gives a richly fascinating talk on how people in L’viv regard Jewish heritage, history and culture in the city. She was speaking in Riga, Latvia, at the Second International Conference “Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post-communist Countries: Challenges and Opportunities”, which took place May 27-28.

She discusses memory politics and in particular divided and contested memory, the way different factions — political, emotional, social, etc — regard history, the politicization of suffering.

Her talk was based in part on her master’s thesis at Central European University, Jewish Heritage in the Historical Memory of East-European City-dwellers: the case of L’viv in comparative context.