Americanizations of Holocaust Memory and Museum Aesthetic Experience

Americanizations of Holocaust Memory and Museum Aesthetic Experience

The article interprets an emblematic segment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition, The Tower of Faces and the installation on the 1941-2 pogroms in Nazi-occupied Poland in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews to compare the aesthetic experience of these examples of Hol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Karolina Krasuska
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	European Association for American Studies
Series:	European Journal of American Studies
Subjects:	Americanization memory Holocaust museum Jewish representation
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/13531

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