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      Köhr, Katja, and Simone Lässig. 2007. “Zwischen universellen Fragen und nationalen Deutungen: Der Holocaust im Museum” [Between universal questions and national interpretations]. In Europa in historisch-didaktischen Perspektiven [Europe in historicaldidactic perspectives], edited by Bernd Schönemann and Hartmut Voit, 235–260. Idstein, Germany: Schulz-Kirchner.

      Krah, M. 2004. “Moving On.” Jerusalem Report, January 26.

      Lässig, Simone, and Karl Heinrich Pohl. 2007. “‘Auschwitz in the Museum?’ Holocaust Memory between History and Moralism.” In How the Holocaust Looks Now: International Perspectives, edited by Martin L. Davies and Claus-Christen W. Szejnmann, 149–162. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

      Leggewie, Claus, and Erik Meyer. 2005. “Ein Ort, an den man gerne geht”: Das Holocaust-Mahnmal und die deutsche Geschichtspolitik nach 1989 [“A place where one likes to go”: The Holocaust Memorial and the politics of German history after 1989]. Munich: Hanser.

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      Niven, William John. 2002. Facing the Nazi Past: United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich. London: Routledge.

      Quack, Sibylle, ed. 2002. Auf dem Weg zur Realisierung: Das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas und der Ort der Information: Architektur und historisches Konzept [On the way to realization: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Center of Information: Architecture and historical concept]. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt.

      Quack, Sibylle. 2007. “In the Presence of the Past: The Making of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Degussa Debate of 2003.” In Press, Politics, and the Field of History: Max Weber Lectures Deutsche Haus at NYU, edited by Sibylle Quack, 48–73. New York: Deutsches Haus at NYU. Accessed April 7, 2014. http://deutscheshaus.as.nyu.edu/docs/CP/1547/Max_Weber_Publication.pdf.

      Quack, Sibylle, and Dagmar von Wilcken. 2005. “Creating an Exhibition about the Murder of European Jewry: Conflicts of Subject, Concept and Design in the ‘Information Centre.’” In Materials on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, edited by The Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, 40–49. Berlin: Nicolaische.

      Reichel, Peter. 1999. Politik mit der Erinnerung: Gedaechtnisorte im Streit um die nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit [Politics of memory: Memory sites and the struggle of presenting Nationalist Socialist history]. Frankfurt: Fischer.

Saehrendt, Christian. 2007. “Bewegendes Erlebnis oder lästiger Pflichttermin? Wie erleben Schülerinnen und Schüler den Besuch des Denkmals für die ermordeten Juden Europas in Berlin?” [Moving experience or burdensome obligation? How do students experience their visit to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe?]. Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 58: 744–757.

      Schlusche, Günter. 2005. “A Memorial Is Built: History, Planning and Architectural Context.” In Materials on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, edited by The Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, 14–29. Berlin: Nicolaische.

      Shalev, Avner, and A. Avraham. 2005 “Unto Every Person There is a Name.” In Materials on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, edited by The Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, 128–137. Berlin: Nicolaische.

      Sion, Brigitte. 2008. “Absent Bodies, Uncertain Memorials: Performing Memory in Berlin and Buenos Aires.” Doctoral dissertation, New York University.

      Stavingski, Hans-Georg. 2002. Das Holocaust-Denkmal: Der Streit um das “Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas” in Berlin (1988–1999) [The Holocaust memorial: The struggle over the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin (1988–1999)]. Paderborn: Schöningh.

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      Thünemann, Holger. 2003. Das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas: Dechiffrierung einer Kontroverse [The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: Deciphering of a Controversy]. Münster: Lit.

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      Uhl, Heidemarie. 2008. “Going Underground: Der ‘Ort der Information’ des Berliner Holocaust-Denkmals” [The Information Center of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial]. Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, 5. Accessed April 7, 2014. http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/16126041-Uhl-3–2008.

      Young, James E. 2000. At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Further Reading

      Dekel, Irit. 2009. “Ways of Looking: Observation and Transformation at the Holocaust Memorial, Berlin.” Memory Studies 2(1): 71–86.

      Dekel, Irit. 2013. Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin: Spheres of Speakability. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

      Hirsch, Marianne, and Irene Kascandes, eds. 2004. Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust. New York: Modern Language Association of America.

      Moeller, Robert G. 2006. “The Politics of the Past in the 1950’s: Rhetorics of Victimisation in East and West Germany.” In Germans as Victims, edited by Bill Niven, 26–42. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

      Young, James E. 1993. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Sibylle Quack is a professor of political science, who earned her PhD at the University of Hanover. From 2000 to 2004, she was the first director of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. She has taught history and political science at the University of Hannover, New York University, and Dartmouth College. Currently she works with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in Berlin. Her main publications are Zuflucht Amerika: Zur Sozialgeschichte der Emigration deutsch-jüdischer Frauen in die US nach 1933 (Dietz, 1995); Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Auf dem Weg zur Realisierung: Das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas und der Ort der Information: Architektur und historisches Konzept (Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 2002); Dimensionen der Verfolgung: Opfer und Opfergruppen im Nationalsozialismus (Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 2003).

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      GHOSTS OF FUTURE NATIONS, OR THE USES OF THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM PARADIGM IN INDIA

       Kavita Singh

      The past 20 years have contributed one entirely new term to the lexicon of museums: the holocaust museum. Originating in a cluster of institutions that were built to memorialize the Jewish Holocaust, the holocaust museum has, in a few short decades, become an object of desire for many groups who seek public acknowledgment of their own historical traumas. Today, in places as far apart as Armenia,