Holocaust Memory

This course will look at how the Holocaust has been commemorated, memorialized, and taught across the world. We will look at a variety of case studies, including: Holocaust memoirs, museums and memorials, films and documentaries, “collecting projects,” curricula, tourism, and digital memory. The purpose of the course is to introduce students not only to the history of the Holocaust, but to the efforts to memorialize the Holocaust in various countries. This is especially important as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles.
Readings may include excerpts from the following: Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz; Elie Wiesel, Night; Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl ; James Edward Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning ; Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life.

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