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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AHUK</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-4095</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-4095</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">19_131-146_LEMEE</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Processes of Identity Reconstitution for Descendants of Jewish Emigrants from the Baltic and Central Europe in Post-Holocaust Situations</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="Author">
          <name>
            <surname>Lemée</surname>
            <given-names>Carole</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:carolelemee@yahoo.fr">carolelemee@yahoo.fr</email>
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          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AHUK_aff_000">University Bordeaux</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>19</volume>
      <fpage>131</fpage>
      <lpage>146</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>15</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>15</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2009</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>This paper deals with the processes of identity reconstitution for descendants of Jewish emigrants from the Baltic and Central Europe, and with the current relationships they have with these regions. Considering their practices of identity reconnexion which are part of identity re-registration processes, the attention is centered on the individual and collective identity economies existing in victims’ families, and on the social interactions increasing in the context of the institutional politics concerning the Baltic and Central Europe. Many descendants of victims begin nowadays to come more and more to zones where their families lived, and not only to the extermination places. They try to find all that happened in the social history of their family before and during the Holocaust, and also what occurred for the Jews in these territories during the Soviet domination. They seek there the past and current presence of their cultural and historical heritage, which is also one of the important components of the European inheritance.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>reconnexion practices</kwd>
        <kwd>historical identity</kwd>
        <kwd>processes of reconstitution and re-registration</kwd>
        <kwd>genocide and ethnocide</kwd>
        <kwd>post-genocide and post-ethnocide situations</kwd>
        <kwd>migration</kwd>
        <kwd>memory</kwd>
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