USA
TitleUSA
Call number940.53180922/0099
Object number08285m
Place of publicationHamburg, Germany
Year of publication
2010
Physical description64-67
MaterialArticle
Series titleNeuengammer Studienhefte ; 03
NotesArticle from the Proceedings of an international conference held at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, 5 to 7 May 2010 pp64-67
Description
1993 was an evenful year for memorial culture. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum opened in the city of Washington, and received 2 million visitors in that year. The Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance opened in Los Angeles in the same year. It focuses on universal questions in the context of genocide. In 1997, the Museum of Jewish Heritage - a living memorial to the Holocaust opened in New York