HIST223 Lecture 15: Holocaust Memorials.
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Notes: the first place with monuments were the sites of destruction, majdanek was recreated as a memorial, recreating the experience to try to bring it closer to people, easily identifiable, monument shows that civilization is precarious (another monument at majdanek, auschwitz birkenau, the polish government declared that the ruins would be preserved as a memorial to the martyrdom of the polish nation and other peoples, there was a competition for a memorial for auschwitz, the international monument to the victims of fascism (nothing in particular to highlight the jewish experience, auschwitz 1, the barracks each have a display from different countries. Yad vashhem: central memorial in israel, much more focused on the jewish experience yet its removed from the atrocities, constructed in the 1950s, a justification for the state of israel, the first concept of an eternal flame, extensive museum complex, trees, archives, hall of names, massive monument and education center about the holocaust.
