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Author : Carol Matas
Release : 1993
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 885/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Daniel's Story by : Carol Matas
Download or read book Daniel's Story written by Carol Matas. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
Author : Jeshajahu Weinberg
Release : 1995
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Holocaust Museum in Washington by : Jeshajahu Weinberg
Download or read book The Holocaust Museum in Washington written by Jeshajahu Weinberg. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., opened in April 1993, Holocaust survivors saw their dream come true--their story was now told to the world. This unforgettable book tells the inside story of the museum's creation in words and in 120 color and black-and-white photographs.
Author : Edward Tabor Linenthal
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Preserving Memory by : Edward Tabor Linenthal
Download or read book Preserving Memory written by Edward Tabor Linenthal. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's birth."--
Author : Michael Bernard-Donals
Release : 2016-03-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 783/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Figures of Memory by : Michael Bernard-Donals
Download or read book Figures of Memory written by Michael Bernard-Donals. This book was released on 2016-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figures of Memory examines how the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, uses its space and the design of its exhibits to "move" its visitors to memory. From the objects and their placement to the architectural design of the building and the floor plan, the USHMM was meant to teach visitors about the Holocaust. But what Michael Bernard-Donals found is that while they learn, and remember, the Holocaust, visitors also call to mind other, sometimes unrelated memories. Partly this is because memory itself works in multidirectional ways, but partly it's because of decisions made in the planning that led to the creation of the museum. Drawing on material from the USHMM's institutional archive, including meeting minutes, architectural renderings, visitor surveys, and comments left by visitors, Figures of Memory is both a theoretical exploration of memory—its relation to identity, space, and ethics—and a practical analysis of one of the most discussed memorials in the United States. The book also extends recent discussions of the rhetoric of memorial sites and museums by arguing that sites like the USHMM don't so much "make a case for" events through the act of memorialization, but actually displace memory, disturbing it—and the museum visitor—so much so that they call it into question. Memory, like rhetorical figures, moves, and the USHMM moves its visitors, figuratively and literally, both to and beyond the events the museum is meant to commemorate.
Author : Götz Aly
Release : 2008-01-08
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 179/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Into the Tunnel by : Götz Aly
Download or read book Into the Tunnel written by Götz Aly. This book was released on 2008-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generous feat of biographical sleuthing by an acclaimed historian rescues one child victim of the Holocaust from oblivion When the German Remembrance Foundation established a prize to commemorate the million Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust, it was deliberately named after a victim about whom nothing was known except her age and the date of her deportation: Marion Samuel, an eleven-year-old girl killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Sixty years after her death, when Götz Aly received the award, he was moved to find out whatever he could about Marion's short life and restore this child to history. In what is as much a detective story as a historical reconstruction, Aly, praised for his "formidable research skills" (Christopher Browning), traces the Samuel family's agonizing decline from shop owners to forced laborers to deportees. Against all odds, Aly manages to recover expropriation records, family photographs, and even a trace of Marion's voice in the premonition she confided to a school friend: "People disappear," she said, "into the tunnel." A gripping account of a family caught in the tightening grip of persecution, Into the Tunnel is a powerful reminder that the millions of Nazi victims were also, each one, an individual life.
