The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia, Tom Lawson and James Jordan, eds. (London and Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007), 152 pp., pbk. 29.95
A few years ago I attended a conference sponsored by the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. One of the plenary speakers was a highly placed official from the recently opened Imperial War Museum North—a state-of-the-art, cutting-edge institution that relies more on modern technology and...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 311-313 |
| Review of: | Special issue The memory of the Holocaust in Australia (Edgware, Middlesex : Mitchell, 2007) (Bartrop, Paul R.)
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| Summary: | A few years ago I attended a conference sponsored by the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. One of the plenary speakers was a highly placed official from the recently opened Imperial War Museum North—a state-of-the-art, cutting-edge institution that relies more on modern technology and interactive displays than it does on the more traditional display of artifacts, framed documents, or photographs. In his address he remarked on the reaction to a statement he had made at the opening of the museum a few weeks earlier. Addressing the veterans who sat before him, he had said that “this museum was not created for you, ladies and gentlemen, but for your great-great-grandchildren.” The comment created a furor. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp019 |