Informatica museologica, No. 45-46, 2015.
Professional paper
REVIVAL OF THE LIPA REMEMBERS MEMORIAL COLLECTION
Tea Perinčić
; Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja, Rijeka
Abstract
The Lipa Remembers Memorial Centre was opened in April
2015 on the site of the old Memorial Museum that was
at work in Lipa from 1968 to 1989. With the revival of the
museum, also recalled is the memory of the difficult historical
heritage of Lipa, which on April 30, 1944, in just a few hours,
lost 269 of its inhabitants, mostly old people, women and
children. This crime was perpetrated by the Nazis and fascists
as part of the Braunschweig Offensive, a campaign aimed at
mopping up the Partisan bands. The murder of the civilian
population was accompanied by the theft of their property,
most of the residential and commercial facilities also being
set on fire. Lipa met the end of World War II on its knees, and
the surviving residents had no houses to which to return.
Then started a long and painstaking renovation of the place
and the continuation of life, always marked by the feeling of
loss. Today, Lipa lives, and remembers. The museum set-up of
the Lipa Remembers Memorial Centre interprets the history
of World War II in the Liburnian karst, which, along with Lipa,
covers the villages of Pasjak, Rupa, Šapjane and Brdce. The
memorial heritage of World War II is supplemented with a
review of the continuity of life in the area, from prehistory to
the present, the emphasis being placed mainly on the cultural
history heritage of Lipa before and after its tragedy. Placed in
the aggregate of heritage characteristics of the area, the disaster
of April 30, 1944, is looked at in a wider context, as one of
a number of the determinants of the identity of the vital and
potent community of Lipa.
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176837
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Publication date:
2.9.2016.
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