About the project

This research project aims to analyse the role of Spanish creators in shaping global memory of the Holocaust through various artistic expressions that have addressed this historical event from 1933 to the present. The primary objective is to explore parallels and divergences in the representation of this dark episode across cultural products from other European countries, Israel and the United States, while assessing the degree of internationalization of the Spanish memory of the Holocaust. To facilitate this analysis, a comprehensive database has been established, cataloguing works by Spanish authors that engage with the Holocaust through a diverse array of media and perspectives.

Definition of Holocaust for the HORES Project

The researchers who make up the HORES Project adhere to the definition of the Holocaust endorsed by institutions such as the Imperial War Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Both museums define the event, which spans the years 1933 to 1945, as the persecution and systematic murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi German regime and its collaborators. Alongside the Jews, who were the main victims of the genocidal policy, there were other groups who suffered Nazi oppression and persecution, including Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Poles, political dissidents, such as Spanish Republicans, and prisoners of war.

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