Parking Lot in the Memorial Forest by Dimitar Anakiev
Installment 45 moves complexly between literal sites of commemoration, and the sociopolitical policies of amnesia forged by communism throughout Eastern Europe. While revisiting a specifically Yugoslavian place and rite of abandon, this poem also challenges: what atrocities and whose mass graves is our own culture is willing to forget in order to thrust forward, unburdened? *** Parking Lot in the Memorial Forest In the south of Serbia, above the city of Niš, there is the Bubanj hill. During The Second World War in Niš existed a concentration camp – no gas chambers – the inmates were driven by trucks...
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