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Postcards from Auschwitz - Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance (Hardcover)
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Postcards from Auschwitz - Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance (Hardcover)
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The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust
museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust
memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the
rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and
what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and
think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P.
Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps,
ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide of
European Jewry has become an increasingly vital component in the
evolving collective remembrance of the Holocaust. Responding to the
tendency to dismiss tourism as commercial, superficial, or
voyeuristic, Reynolds insists that we take a closer look at a
phenomenon that has global reach, takes many forms, and serves many
interests. The book focuses on some of the most prominent sites of
mass murder in Europe, and then expands outward to more recent
memorial museums. Reynolds provides a historically-informed account
of the different forces that have shaped Holocaust tourism since
1945, including Cold War politics, the sudden emergence of the
"memory boom" beginning in the 1980s, and the awareness that
eyewitnesses to the Holocaust are passing away. Based on his
on-site explorations, the contributions from researchers in
Holocaust studies and tourism studies, and the observations of
tourists themselves, this book reveals how tourism is an important
part of efforts to understand and remember the Holocaust, an event
that continues to challenge ideals about humanity and our capacity
to learn from the past.
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