Australian representations of the Holocaust: Jewish Holocaust museums in Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney, 1984-1996
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Australian representations of the Holocaust: Jewish Holocaust museums in Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney, 1984-1996
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Call numberS940.5318/004
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]03469ccc
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Oxford University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1999
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]pp200-221
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the journal 'Holocaust and Genocide Studies' Vol.13 Number 2, Fall 1999 pp 200-221
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
This article observes that Holocaust museums in Australia present neither a humanist narrative as in the USHMM, nor a zionist narrative as at Yad Vashem. The museums were established primarily to educate the broader Australian public in response to Holocaust denial.