Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,3 (2014) 482-509
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
;
Holocaust memorials
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
After visiting, in 2010-12, nineteen memorial sites in Germany established for the preservation of the memory of the period of the Third Reich and the Holocaust (former concentration camps, museums, etc.), concludes that most memorials and documentation centers do not achieve their educational potential. While they provide visitors with ample information about the Third Reich and its regime, they tend to present that information in a tone of neutral objectivity and dissociation of the viewer from what is exhibited, which deflects deeper questions about the meaning or the significance of the era. While most German Holocaust memorial sites and documentation centers present authentic and potentially emotion-inducing artifacts and images, the manner of presentation often reduces emotive potential. A post-traumatic pedagogy of repression and evasion is unlikely to create key experiences that will have long-term effects on visitors' identities.
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