Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
American Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
46,3 (1994) 406-433
Keywords:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
Abstract:
As one of the participants in the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Linenthal relates some of the problems with which the design team was confronted. Dwells on the architectural design, on the exhibition of photographs, on the controversy regarding whether it was appropriate to bring artifacts (especially kilograms of human hair) from the Auschwitz Museum and to exhibit them, and on the problem of the resolution of the whole exhibition. Pp. 410-421, discussing the photographs in the exhibit, relate the history of Yaffa Eliach's photograph collection and her visit to her native town Eisiskes, now in Lithuania, the place where the mass shootings of Jews virtually began in the Second World War.
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