This edited volume asks what earlier and contemporary cemeteries and memorials can tell us about manifestations of past times. How do they testify of contradictory dimensions of memorial behavior: from commemoration or celebration to forgetting? The chapters in this volume address the work of cultural remembrance connected mostly to various minority groups in East Central Europe while enquiring into tangible and intangible intertwining spheres?visible and hidden signs, traces and lifeworlds of memories, emotions, stories, and historical interpretations.

Ferdinand Kühnel is an affiliated researcher at the Austrian and Central European Center (Österreich und Ostmitteleuropa Zentrum) at the Institute of East European History at the University of Vienna. He currently works as a publication coordinator of the Austrian-Slovene History Book at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften). So?a Mikulová is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions in Berlin. Her research interests range from memory studies to the history of emotions, focusing on the twentieth Century in Central Europe. Snežana Stankovi??is a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Her research concerns aging in environments battered by post-war precarity. She brings medical humanities, environmental studies, literary theories of narration, and the history of emotions into dialogue while following aging, forced (im-)mobilities and trans-local care networks.