Memory, the City, and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others.

The final source of urban memory in popular culture which Blacker analyzes are photographic images. Blacker sees Zagajewski's experience of uprootedness and construction of new place-based memories as common to millions of others in the post-World War II East Central Europe. Tracing the development of memory culture in L'viv, Wroclaw, and Kaliningrad (with some examples from other locations) is a stated objective of Blacker's study. [Extracted from the article]

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