The Memorialization of Genocide

The Memorialization of Genocide
Author: Simone Gigliotti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317394178

Divided societies, tormented pasts, and unrepentant perpetrators. Why are some countries more intent on vanquishing uncomfortable pasts than others? How do public and often unsightly attempts at memorialisation both fail the victims and valorize their oppressors? This book offers fresh and original perspectives on dictatorship, fascism and victimization from the bloodiest decades in Europe’s, Australia’s and Central America’s colonial and modern history. Chapters include analyses of Francoist memorials in Spain, assessments of the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, the forgetting of frontier colonial violence in Tasmania, Romania’s treatment of its Roma populations in the midst of Holocaust memorialisation in Bucharest’s urban development, and whether or not the Holocaust continues to serve as an instructional model or impossible aspiration for cross-cultural genocide memorialisation strategies. In an era of ongoing political, ethnic and religious conflict, and unrepentant insurgent activity around the world, this collection reminds readers that genocidal actions, wherever and whenever they occurred, must be held to account by more than rhetoric and concrete memory. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

After Genocide

After Genocide
Author: Nicole Fox
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2021-07-27
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 0299332209

Nicole Fox investigates the ways memorials can shape the experiences of survivors decades after massacres have ended. She examines how memorializations can both heal and hurt, especially when they fail to represent all genders, ethnicities, and classes of those afflicted.

Exhibiting Atrocity

Exhibiting Atrocity
Author: Amy Sodaro
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0813592178

Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations. Exhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration, and analyzes its use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Through a global comparative approach, Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums that commemorate a range of violent pasts and allow for a chronological and global examination of the trend: the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC; the House of Terror in Budapest, Hungary; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Together, these case studies illustrate the historical emergence and global spread of the memorial museum and show how this new cultural form of commemoration is intended to be used in contemporary societies around the world.

The Stages of Memory

The Stages of Memory
Author: James E. Young
Publisher: Public History in Historical P
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-04-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781625343611

Introduction. The memorial's vernacular arc between Berlin's Denkmal and New York City's 9/11 Memorial -- The stages of memory at Ground Zero: the National 9/11 Memorial process -- Daniel Libeskind and the houses of Jewish memory: what is Jewish architecture? -- Regarding the pain of women: gender and the arts of holocaust memory -- The terrible beauty of Nazi aesthetics -- Looking into the mirrors of evil: Nazi imagery in contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in New York -- The contemporary arts of memory in the works of Esther Shalev-Gerz, Miroslaw Balka, Tobi Kahn, and Komar and Melamid -- Utøya and Norway's July 22 memorial: the memory of political terror.

Remembering Genocide

Remembering Genocide
Author: Nigel Eltringham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317754220

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide. Whether coming to terms with atrocities committed in Namibia and Rwanda, Australia, Canada, the Punjab, Armenia, Cambodia and during the Holocaust, those seeking to remember genocide are confronted with numerous challenges. Survivors grapple with the possibility, or even the desirability, of recalling painful memories. Societies where genocide has been perpetrated find it difficult to engage with an uncomfortable historical legacy. Still, to forget genocide, as this volume edited by Nigel Eltringham and Pam Maclean shows, is not an option. To do so reinforces the vulnerability of groups whose very existence remains in jeopardy and denies them the possibility of bringing perpetrators to justice. Contributors discuss how genocide is represented in media including literature, memorial books, film and audiovisual testimony. Debates surrounding the role museums and monuments play in constructing and transmitting memory are highlighted. Finally, authors engage with controversies arising from attempts to mobilise and manipulate memory in the service of reconciliation, compensation and transitional justice.

Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide

Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide
Author: Lara J. Nettelfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107000467

This book traces the reverberations of genocide, forced displacement, and a legacy of loss in Bosnia and abroad.

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

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Daniel's Story

Daniel's Story
Author: Carol Matas
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590465885

Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.