'There was a Holocaust and there is a monument.' The New Haven Holocaust Memorial

In 1977 New Haven became one the first municipalities in the United States to donate a plot of public land to the erection of a Holocaust memorial. As time has passed, Holocaust memorials have blossomed across the country and so has the literature on North American memory discourses and memorializat...

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Published in:Holocaust studies 2021-07, Vol.27 (3), p.387-407
Main Author: Masa, Olmo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
heritage
Holocaust Americanization
Holocaust memorials
memory
New Haven
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Summary:In 1977 New Haven became one the first municipalities in the United States to donate a plot of public land to the erection of a Holocaust memorial. As time has passed, Holocaust memorials have blossomed across the country and so has the literature on North American memory discourses and memorialization of the Holocaust. The thesis that Holocaust remembrance in the US contributes to a narrative of American innocence and exceptionalism has proved especially pervasive. In exploring the relationship between that thesis and the New Haven Holocaust Memorial, this article demonstrates that the Memorial does not clearly fit into that narrative.
ISSN:1750-4902
2048-4887
DOI:10.1080/17504902.2020.1838813