Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany Since 1989

Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany Since 1989
Author: Peter Carrier
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571819048

Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany have received intense public attention: the Veĺ d'Hiv in Paris and the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Why is this so? Both monuments, the author argues, are unique in the history of memorial projects.

The Texture of Memory

The Texture of Memory
Author: James Edward Young
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300059915

Dotyczy m. in. Polski.

Holocaust Memory and National Museums in Britain

Holocaust Memory and National Museums in Britain
Author: Emily-Jayne Stiles
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030893553

This book explores the Holocaust exhibition opened within the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in 2000; setting out the long and often contentious debates surrounding the conception, design, and finally the opening of an important exhibition within a national museum in Britain. It considers a process of memory-making through an assessment of Holocaust photographs, material culture, and survivor testimonies; exploring theories of cultural memory as they apply to the national museum context. Anchored in time and place, the Holocaust exhibition within Britain’s national museum of war is influenced by, and reflects, an international rise in Holocaust consciousness in the 1990s. This book considers the construction of Holocaust memory in 1990s Britain, providing a foundation for understanding current and future national memory projects. Through all aspects of the display, the Holocaust is presented as meaningful in terms of what it says about Nazism and what this, in turn, says about Britishness. From the original debates surrounding the inclusion of a Holocaust gallery at the IWM, to the acquisition of Holocaust artefacts that could act as 'concrete evidence' of Nazi barbarity and criminality, the Holocaust reaffirms an image of Britain that avoids critical self-reflection despite raising uncomfortably close questions. The various display elements are brought together to consider multiple strands of the Holocaust story as it is told by national museums in Britain.

Holocaust Monuments and National Memory

Holocaust Monuments and National Memory
Author: Peter Carrier
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 178238961X

Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany during the Second World War have received intense public attention: the Vélo d'Hiver (Winter Velodrome) in Paris and the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe or Holocaust Monument in Berlin. Why is this so? Both monuments, the author argues, are unique in the history of memorial projects. Although they are genuine "sites of memory", neither monument celebrates history, but rather serve as platforms for the deliberation, negotiation and promotion of social consensus over the memorial status of war crimes in France and Germany. The debates over these monuments indicate that it is the communication among members of the public via the mass media, rather than qualities inherent in the sites themselves, which transformed these sites into symbols beyond traditional conceptions of heritage and patriotism.

Memory Passages

Memory Passages
Author: Natasha Goldman
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439914230

For decades, artists and architects have struggled to relate to the Holocaust in visual form, resulting in memorials that feature a diversity of aesthetic strategies. In Memory Passages, Natasha Goldman analyzes both previously-overlooked and internationally-recognized Holocaust memorials in the United States and Germany from the postwar period to the present, drawing on many historical documents for the first time. From the perspectives of visual culture and art history, the book examines changing attitudes toward the Holocaust and the artistic choices that respond to it. The book introduces lesser-known sculptures, such as Nathan Rapoport’s Monument to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs in Philadelphia, as well as internationally-acclaimed works, such as Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Other artists examined include Will Lammert, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Gerson Fehrenbach, Margit Kahl, and Andy Goldsworthy.Archival documents and interviews with commissioners, survivors, and artists reveal the conversations and decisions that have shaped Holocaust memorials. Memory Passages suggests that memorial designers challenge visitors to navigate and activate spaces to engage with history and memory by virtue of walking or meandering. This book will be valuable for anyone teaching—or seeking to better understand—the Holocaust.

Empathetic Memorials

Empathetic Memorials
Author: Mark Callaghan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 303050932X

This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses. Through analysis of provocative designs, the book engages with issues of empathy, secondary witnessing, and depictions of concentration camp iconography. It explores the relationship between empathy and cultural memory when representations of suffering are notably absent. The book submits that one design represents the idea of an uncanny memorial, and also pays attention to viewer co-authorship in counter-monuments. Analysis of counter-monuments also include their creative engagement with German history and their determination to defy fascist aesthetics. As the winning design for The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is abstract with an information centre, there is an exploration of the memorial museum. Callaghan asks whether this configuration is intended to compensate for the abstract memorial’s ambiguity or to complement the design’s visceral potential. Other debates explored concern political memory, national memory, and the controversy of dedicating the memorial exclusively to murdered Jews.

What Remains

What Remains
Author: Dora Osborne
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1640140522

A study of the archival turn in contemporary German memory culture, drawing on recent memorials, documentaries, and prose narratives that engage with the material legacy of National Socialism and the Holocaust.

Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany Since 1989

Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany Since 1989
Author: Peter Carrier
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005
Genre: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin, Germany).
ISBN: 9781571819048

Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany have received intense public attention: the Veĺ d'Hiv in Paris and the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Why is this so? Both monuments, the author argues, are unique in the history of memorial projects.

From Monuments to Traces

From Monuments to Traces
Author: Rudy Koshar
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780520922525

This text constructs a framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than half a century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust. Beginning with national unification in 1870-71 it follows through to reunification in 1990.