Met lit. opg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-320) and indexes. xvii, 350 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm

Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, ...

Includes references.

"What does it mean to display war? Examining a range of different exhibitions in Britain, Canada, and Australia, Jennifer Wellington reveals complex imperial dynamics in the ways these countries developed diverging understandings of the First World War, despite their cultural, political, and institutional similarities. While in Britain a popular narrative developed of the conflict as a tragic rupture ...

Master thesis in Museum Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 87 pagina's. : illustraties. ; 30 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-340) and index. xiv, 354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Das neue Holocaust-Museum von Yad Vashem wurde am 15. März 2005 eingeweiht. Die Ausstellung stellt den Holocaust aus einer jüdischen Perspektive dar. Regis Schlagdenhauffen untersucht, wie homosexuelle Opfer in der Ausstellung dargestellt werden. Dazu beschreibt er die neue Ausstellung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der nicht jüdischen Opfergruppen. Homosexuelle werden im Vergleich zu anderen Gruppen ...

Includes bibliographical references (page 200). 205 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europe and North America - including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, the Museum of the ...

The Holocaust -- the attempted annihilation of European Jewry -- continues to bewilder all who encounter it. Indeed it has often been described as beyond representation, so terrible was the suffering of the victims, so evil the perpetrators who carried it out. In Britain's national museum of modern conflict, we show the efforts and sacrifice of many people, including those Allied servicemen and women ...

Met lit. opg. 27 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

M.41.BGOMIVOv - Documentation of the Belorussian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War (World War II)
 
 The history of the museum starts with the establishment of a Documentation Collection Committee regarding the Great Patriotic War, 02 June 1942. The museum was established by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Belorussia which was in Moscow at that time. V. ...

Although it is generally considered that there was relatively little interest in the First World War throughout the 1970s and 1980s in Britain, these decades constitute a key moment in time when the embodied memories of the war transitioned into the cultural memory we are familiar with today. This article examines the transmission of memories of the First World War from veterans and their families ...

Titelp. vermeldt: 'Papers based on the 7th conference of the International Network of Museums for Peace, Barcelona, 2011: "The role of museums in the transformation of a culture of war and violence to a culture of peace and nonviolence"' 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

500 p. : illustrations

Tells the story of students and teachers from the Okinawa Women's Normal School and the First Prefectural Girls' High School, who were ordered to serve in the medical units of the Japanese army during the Battle of Okinawa. 64 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

M.52.NMIUuDSV - Documentation from the National Museum of the History of Ukraine during World War II in Kyiv
 
 History of the Archives:
 
 The idea regarding the establishment of a Museum of the History of World War II was born already in 1943 but its construction was delayed until the 1970s. An important stage on the way to the establishment of the museum was an exhibition held ...

Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 79. Reel 2: "Guilty Men" War crimes trials. War criminals are beaten and hung by their heels. Moscow declaration. Concentration camp scenes. Collection of documents for the trial. CUs, dead bodies of Himmler, Goebbels, etc. Disorder. Arrest of major war criminals. Belsen trial. Hangings. Mobs gather to view bodies. Other European war crimes trials of Caruso, Quisling, ...

This collection contains interviews, photo albums, and scrapbooks relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war, including escape to Sweden and deportation to Theresienstad, as well as their return home to Denmark.

At head of title: Russian Federation. 85 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm