A modern chamber of horrors’? Temporary Holocaust exhibitions as sites of memory
The 1961 Warsaw Ghetto commemoration exhibition, Melbourne
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904103 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Cooke (0000-0002-8679-5195, Deakin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 445-465 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2018.1468666 |
| OpenAlex | W2802513093 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper examines the 1961 Warsaw Ghetto exhibition in Melbourne, Australia. Within the context of Eichmann’s trial in Israel and fears of rising anti-Semitism in Australia, the exhibition is a site through which debates over Jewish identity, Holocaust memory, and the hitherto marginalised role of temporary exhibitions can be understood. Using archival traces, the paper examines the intentions of the exhibition’s organisers, and its reception by visitors. It shows how representations of the Holocaust were shaped by local concerns, the availability of information from emerging global networks of memorial institutions, and the evolving category of ‘survivor’. It adds to a nuanced reading of Holocaust memorial forms, unsettling established narratives of Holocaust memory in Australia
Art · Art history · Exhibition · Political science · The Holocaust · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage
The Jews in Australia
Museum Materialities
The International Jewish Labor Bund after 1945
The Destruction of the European Jews
After the Holocaust
The Holocaust and Representations of Jews
Landsmanschaft Postscript
Australian Representations of the Holocaust
Canada's Struggle with Holocaust Memorialization
Remembering and Rebuilding
Negotiating memory and identity
The Shoah in Israeli Collective Memory
The birth of the museum
The terrible gift
Belonging and 'Unbelonging
Finding Meaning in Memory
The City and Topologies of Memory
The Holocaust in American Life
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |