In this article, the author seeks to establish whether specific sites from Eastern Europe can be viewed as loci critiquing Pierre Nora’s seminal notion of lieux de mémoire. The sites in question are abandoned, clandestine locations of past violence and genocide, witnesses to wanton killings, today left with no memorial markers or inadequate ones. Without monuments, plaques, or fences, they might be understood as “completely forgotten,” as Claude Lanzmann once claimed. In opposition to that view, in the article the locations in question are interpreted as still potent agents in local processes of working with a traumatic past. Sites of mass violence and genocide are described as unheimlich and trigger strong affective reactions of fear, disgust, and shame whose actual causes remain unclear. This article analyzes possible catalysts of these powerful affective responses. The first hypothesis is grounded in the abundance of ghost stories in literary or artistic representations of the sites in question. The second hypothesis addresses the issue of the presence of dead bodies: human remains have never been properly neutralized by rituals. And finally, the third hypothesis explores the “effect of the affects” of non-sites of memory as the capacity of bodies to be moved by other bodies, the bodies affected in this case being those of the visitors to the uncanny sites.

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在本文中，作者试图确定是否可以将东欧的特定遗址看作是批评皮埃尔·诺拉（Pierre Nora）开创性的“居留地”概念的场所。这些地点被遗弃，过去暴力和种族灭绝的秘密地点，肆意杀害的目击者，今天没有纪念性标记或标记不足。正如克劳德·兰兹曼（Claude Lanzmann）曾经声称的那样，如果没有纪念碑，牌匾或围墙，它们可能被理解为“完全被遗忘”。与该观点相反，在本文中，所讨论的位置被解释为在处理过去创伤的本地过程中仍然是有效的媒介。大规模暴力和种族灭绝的现场被描述为僵硬，并引发恐惧，厌恶和羞耻的强烈情感反应，其实际原因尚不清楚。本文分析了这些强大的情感反应的可能催化剂。第一个假设是基于有关地点的文学或艺术作品中大量的鬼故事。第二个假设解决了尸体存在的问题：人类遗骸从未被仪式适当地消除过。最后，第三个假设探讨了非记忆部位的“影响效应”，即物体被其他物体移动的能力，在这种情况下，受影响的物体就是那些来往地点的访客。遗体从未被仪式适当地消除过。最后，第三个假设探讨了非记忆部位的“影响效应”，即物体被其他物体移动的能力，在这种情况下，受影响的物体就是那些来往地点的访客。遗体从未被仪式适当地消除过。最后，第三个假设探讨了非记忆部位的“影响效应”，即物体被其他物体移动的能力，在这种情况下，受影响的物体就是那些来往地点的访客。