Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,1 (2005) 81-106
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Museums
Abstract:
Examines Holocaust symbolism and memorialization as implemented in the four Holocaust-era railway cars displayed in four museums: the Dallas Holocaust Memorial Center (now known as the Dallas Holocaust Museum); the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida; and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Considering the placement and presentation of the railway cars, argues that each one defines a distinct memorial ideology: initiatory (a visitor to the Dallas museum has to walk through the car to enter the exhibition); integrative (the car as an authentic artifact connecting the Holocaust with the U.S. setting); ambivalent (the car as a sanctum, at the same time stressing the profanity of the Holocaust); and monumental (fitting the Israeli "Holocaust and heroism" paradigm). By correlating the four ideologies with four theological responses to the Holocaust, by Elie Wiesel, Irving Greenberg, Richard Rubenstein, and Emil Fackenheim respectively, offers a typology for analyzing Holocaust memorialization.
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