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1 Edinburgh Research Explorer Are Holocaust Victims Jewish? Citation for published version: Holtschneider, H 2012, 'Are Holocaust Victims Jewish? Looking at Photographs in the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Exhibition' Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. Supplement 1, pp Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Published In: Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies Publisher Rights Statement: Holtschneider, H. (2012). Are Holocaust Victims Jewish?: Looking at Photographs in the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Exhibition. In D. R. Langton, & P. S. Alexander (Eds.), Normative Judaism? Jews, Judaism and Jewish Identity: Proceedings of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) conference (pp ). (Melilah: Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies ( )). Gorgias Press. General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact openaccess@ed.ac.uk providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 01. Oct. 2018

2 ARE HOLOCAUST VICTIMS JEWISH? LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM HOLOCAUST EXHIBITION K. Hannah Holtschneider* seen by others. The representations of Jewishness offered by the IWM Holocaust exhibition

3 of photographic displays in the IWM Holocaust exhibition. Photography and the Holocaust Professional photographers in the PropagandakompaniePK Berliner Illustrirte. These photo essays were conceptualised and arranged in such a way that they clearly exhibit Soldiers of the Wehrmacht Einsatzgruppen style and perspective exhibited there by professionals serving the ends of the party and Propagandakompanie Wehrmacht Einsatzgruppen uncontested. German Photography : Power of a Medium German Photography

4 The curators of the IWM exhibition are trained historians. curators to translate the historical narrative provided into an exhibition with a clear pathway research. they are not a straightforward reproduction of reality. is paper. Gesamtkunstwerk

5 Exhibiting the Holocaust the visitor to chart their own path through the exhibition area. Current preference in the design of Holocaust exhibitions favours narrative and memorial Narrative the sense that historical artefacts are presented as access points to an experience of the past. Memorial narrative and memorial Musealisierung des Holocaust: Das Jüdische Museum Berlin und das U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Ein Vergleich Reshaping Museum Space: Architecture, Design, Exhibition, Museum Meanings Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust

6 such as what can be displayed and how. Holocaust exhibitions are universally constructed Visual History und Geschichtsdidaktik 9 consider this together with the fact that historians until very recently only reluctantly 9 Visual History und Geschichtsdidaktik: Bildkompetenz in der historisch-politischen Bildung Visual History und Geschichtsdidaktik

7 Vernichten und Erinnern Judenforschung Judenforschung life and culture. Holocaust exhibition at the IWM London. Representations of Jewishness in the IWM Holocaust exhibition Einsatzgruppen Aktion Reinhard Vernichten und Erinnern: Spuren Nationalistischer Gedächtnispolitik. Vernichten und Erinnern Musealisierung des Holocaust

8 narrative at every stage except in the display on the Einsatzgruppen and Jewish resistance. and clandestinely and under great danger by the Sonderkommando display are visible. alongside the Einsatzgruppen The argue that the history of the Holocaust needs to be displayed in an authoritative linear Reshaping Museum Space: Architecture, Design, Exhibition, Museum Meanings

9 representations of Jewishness offered by the IWM Holocaust exhibition need to connect Photographs and Jewishness allow the visitor to gather their thoughts in preparation for the exhibition proper. The bar mitzvah Musealisierung des Holocaust to the exhibition proper.

10 99 In particular in the early stages of discussing the translation of the teaching antisemitism by using material created by the Nazis The board concluded that Kristallnacht Representing the Holocaust: In Honour of Bryan Burns Holocaust Studies

11 Judenrat The photos in the ghetto section function as illustrations of the text panel and are not There are no sections in the exhibition which would introduce the culture which traditional shtetls in Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence

12 the fact that Many but by the visitor can only detect the origins of the photographs through a detailed scrutiny of the Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities Memorial Museums Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

13 Photographs in the context of the entire exhibition The wall in front of which the restored cart is exhibited is covered with an enlarged here there in the Warsaw ghetto. Rassehygieneprogramm Einsatzgruppe. New German Critique Die Einstellung ist die Einstellung: Visuelle Konstruktionen des Judentums probably not identical with the cart on display.

14 Thus the artefacts need Photographs do not social and cultural institution. Who are Jews in the IWM Holocaust exhibition? Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television since 1933 Crimes of the Wehrmacht Verbrechen der Wehrmacht: Bilanz einer Debatte Journal of Holocaust Education The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A Social and Cultural History

15 BIBLIOGRAPHY Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television since 1933 Journal of Holocaust Education Reshaping Museum Space: Architecture, Design, Exhibition, Museum Meanings Visual History und Geschichtsdidaktik: Bildkompetenz in der historisch-politischen Bildung

16 Verbrechen der Wehrmacht: Bilanz einer Debatte Holocaust Studies New German Critique Die Einstellung ist die Einstellung: Visuelle Konstruktionen des Judentums The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination: A Social and Cultural History Representing the Holocaust: In Honour of Bryan Burns Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust German Photography : Power of a Medium Musealisierung des Holocaust: Das Jüdische Museum Berlin und das U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Ein Vergleich Vernichten und Erinnern: Spuren nationalsozialistischer Gedächtnispolitik Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities Journal of Modern Jewish Studies