holocaust memorials

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Preserving memory

the struggle to create America's Holocaust Museum
2001
A behind-the-scenes account of the debates, struggles, and emotions that went into the building of the United States Holocaust Museum which opened in Washington D.C. in 1993.

Stumbling on history

an art project compels a small German town to face its past
This remarkable work of narrative non-fiction brings readers to a Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) ceremony in Stockstadt am Rhein, Germany.

Liberating the ghosts

photographs and text from The march of the living with excerpts from the writings of participants
1996
A photographic documentary of the "March of the Living, " a pilgrimage of five thousand young people from forty countries who met in Poland on April 4, 1994, and spent two weeks visiting the sites of the Holocaust.

Selling the Holocaust

from Auschwitz to Schindler : how history is bought, packaged, and sold
1999
Explores how and why the Holocaust has come to be one of the most talked about and often represented event of the twentieth century, and argues that the business of the Holocaust--movies, plays, museums, books, and other items--is causing the horrific reality of the extermination of the Jews to be forgotten.

Legacies of Dachau

the uses and abuses of a concentration camp, 1933-2001
2001
Examines the history of Dachau, Germany, from 1890 to 2000, discussing the uses of its most infamous landmark--the concentration camp--after World War II, which included years as a prison and a residential neighborhood before it was turned into a memorial site and museum.

The Holocaust sites of Europe

an historical guide
2010
Includes a survey of all the Holocaust sites in Europe. There is also an extensive reference to the many museums and memorials which commemorate the Holocaust.

Viewing the Holocaust today

2003
Examines the movies, music, writings, and museums that represent the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

Six million paper clips

the making of a children's Holocaust memorial
2004
Presents the story of a group of middle school students from Whitwell, Tennessee who began a project of collecting six million paper clips and building a memorial to the Jews who were victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War Two.
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