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Author Engelhardt, Isabelle.

Title A topography of memory : representations of the holocaust at Dachau and Buchenwald in comparison with Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and Washington, DC / Isabelle Engelhardt
Published Bruxelles : PIE Lang, 2002

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Description 237 pages : some color photographs ; 22 cm
Series Series multiple Europes, 1376-0904 ; no. 16
Collection Multicultural Europe ; no. 16. 1376-0904
Contents Towards a history and theory of representation: shaping the memories of the Holocaust -- The liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald: speechlessness and the first images -- Representations in Dachau and Buchenwald until today: a German-German comparison -- Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and Washington, DC: an overview
Summary This book is an analysis of the history of various sorts of representation, chiefly memorials, on the site of the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald in comparison with Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. By providing a reconstruction of the history and debates surrounding the question of memorializing and forgetting, it interrogates the question of how to represent the unrepresentable. It draws on Freudian analysis, the literature on sites of memory, and the debate about writing about the Holocaust, showing clearly how the camps have been and still remain highly contested places of memory and arguing that these debates and their physical embodiment on the sites have to be incorporated in our understanding of what these places represent. --from publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237)
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust memorials -- Poland.
Holocaust memorials -- Israel.
Holocaust memorials -- Washington (D.C.)
LC no. 2002398727
ISBN 9052019576 (paperback)
9789052019574 (paperback)