Overview
Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority - was established in 1953 by the Israel Parliament. It is dedicated to the study and commemoration of the Nazis' genocide of the Jews and is located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. In 1957 a first building opened, and over the years a series of institutional spaces and memorials, gardens, and artworks were added. This culminated in 2005 with the inauguration of a major new centerpiece, the Museum of Holocaust History and ancillary structures, designed by Moshe Safdie. Using evocative photography, this book explores how architecture copes with commemoration and discusses the work of one of today's leading architects.
Full Product Details
Author: Joan Ockman ,
Moshe Safdie ,
Avner Shalev
Publisher: Yad Vashem Publications
Imprint: Yad Vashem Publications
ISBN: 9789653084032
ISBN 10: 9653084038
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 01 January 2006
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""This is an extraordinary piece of research on an important organization that participated in the implementation of the Holocaust--the so-called Polish Blue Police. Based on original archival research, this book fills a glaring gap in the existing historiography. Eighty years after the end of the war, Grabowski has written the first monograph on this fundamentally important topic. A must read for all students of World War II and Holocaust history."" Jan T. Gross, Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton University ""Jan Grabowski has been a courageous and acutely well-informed voice in the 'history wars' over the role of Poles under German occupation in the Holocaust. On Duty meticulously documents the increasing complicity of the Polish Blue and Criminal Police, as well as other seemingly innocuous organizations such as the construction service, firefighters, and village night guards, first in the enforcement of initial Nazi anti-Jewish policies, then in ghetto liquidation, and finally and most fatefully in the hunt for hidden and passing Jews. Grabowski also demonstrates how, in the face of looming German defeat, many policemen established ties with the Polish underground to secure their future while still continuing to aid the German campaign to kill all surviving Polish Jews. Grabowski establishes beyond doubt that while Poles were victims of brutal German occupation, many were simultaneously victimizers of Polish Jews."" Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
