Abstract
The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is a site experienced by individuals in and outside its confines in time and place. This is true of other memorials whose experience always exceeds their physical boundaries and the temporal confines of the visit. Unlike other such memorials, this one, with its abstract form and location on a large lot in the center of Berlin between Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz (and near the Reichstag building), is considered ‘non-authentic’ with regard to the Holocaust. This new characteristic of a Holocaust Memorial frames how one experiences it, and contrasts with ‘authentic’ memorial sites, in which, it is presumed, some approximation of the victim’s voice can be represented (DeKoven Ezrahi, 2004).
This essay was written with the support of the Center for German Studies of the European Forum at the Hebrew University ‘Working Papers’ research grant. The research in Berlin in winter 2010 was supported by the Minerva Foundation. I am most grateful for both.
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Dekel, I. (2011). Mediated Space, Mediated Memory: New Archives at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. In: Neiger, M., Meyers, O., Zandberg, E. (eds) On Media Memory. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307070_20
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