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- Title
Im Spiegel der Geschichten.
- Authors
DE JONG, STEFFI
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of video testimonials and primary objects in Holocaust and World War II museums including the Museo Diffuso della Resistanza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà in Turin, Italy, the Imperial War Museum in London, England, and the Bergen-Belsen memorial in Germany. Differences in the depictions of World War II and the Holocaust in the museums are examined, the collections of archival objects at the museums are discussed, and the effect of the combination of video and objects have on the perceived realism of the past is described.
- Subjects
HOLOCAUST museums; MILITARY museums; IMPERIAL War Museum (Great Britain); BERGEN-Belsen (Germany : Concentration camp); MUSEUM archives; MUSEUM exhibits
- Publication
Werkstatt Geschichte (Klartext Verlag), 2013, Issue 62, p18
- ISSN
0942-704X
- Publication type
Article