English
Polish
Is There an “Other” in this (Yad Vashem New Holocaust) Museum?
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 7 (2011), pages: 343-359
Publication date: 2011-12-10
Abstract
The essay analyzes the main exhibition of Yad Vashem New Holocaust Museum (opened in 2005) as a historical narrative, with particular criticism directed at the forms of narration used. According to the author, the main problem is that the museum’s narration excludes all otherness – it lacks context (only fragmentary historical background of World War II was presented), historical genesis (with the exception of anti-Semitism), real perpetrators, real victims experiencing trauma, discussion of the life of the post-war Diaspora and the topic of non-Jewish victims.
Keywords
Yad Vashem Museum, Holocaust narrations, the “Other”
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Other articles by the same auhtor(s)
- Amos Goldberg, The Victim’s Voice and Melodramatic Esthetics in History , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 5 (2009)
