Britain's Holocaust Memorial Days: Reshaping the past in the service of the present

Immigrants and Minorities

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 41-62

  Bloxham, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0038685665     PISSN: 02619288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2002.9975030     Document Type: Article

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