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Reading the traces: embodied engagement with the past at three former Nazi concentration camps
Author(s): Whigham, Kerry
Date: 2020
Topics: Holocaust: Memorials, Arts and Culture: Theatre, Dance and Performance, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust: Education: Tours of Holocaust Sites
Abstract: Since German Reunification, sites of Nazi atrocities have undergone an array of transformations as curators determine how they can best educate visitors. This article offers a comparative analysis of three former Nazi concentration camps—Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Ravensbrück—to demonstrate the varied choices that site administrators and educators have made in this process. It focuses on the performative strategies integrated into these memory spaces, arguing that practices that encourage visitors to make the space their own through group interaction have the greatest potential for creating political subjects with a commitment to memory of past violence and prevention of future violence.