Presents a highly personal reaction to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. Exploration of controversies over whether it aestheticizes events too horrible to express artistically; Poem about the museum; Role of art in history; Narrative while touring the museum; German-Jewish cooperation in building ...
This is where Anne Frank and her family hid during World War II. It showcases her childhood, life in the attic, as well as other information about the Holocaust. There’s also a display of her real handwritten diary. While it’s a sad and moving place, in all honesty though, I didn...
"History cannot be forgotten," Liu said during her visit to Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. "Nor should it be altered or repeated." She told Avner Shalev, the Yad Vashem chairman, and Robert Rozett, the Yad Vashem Library director, that both the Chinese and Jewish people were victims of World...
The aim of this article is to analyze a holocaust discourse between a jew and a non-jew visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. It tackles the issue of ownership - who owns the memory of Auschwitz? A basic assumption is that the way people interpret the meaning of the holocaust is connected...
Camp Commandant Rudolph Hoss on his way to the gallows next to the crematorium at Auschwitz I, April 16, 1947. After the war, however, the hunt was on to find the people who perpetrated the Holocaust. Camp Commandant Rudolf Hoss was captured in 1946, while posing as a farm hand. Sentenc...
Perhaps evidence of its significance, the cemetery’s original gates were sent to the United States Holocaust Musuem in Washington DC and replaced with replicas (though we really think that should have been the other way around). If you’d like to enter the Jewish Cemetery, independent visits ...
My Holocaust, My Imagination: Reflections on Visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museumdoi:10.1080/10632921.1994.9941772RichardChessInformaworldJournal of Arts Management Law & Society