Table of contents:
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Myth of the 'Holocauast'
PART I: PEOPLE
1. Anne Frank
2. Adolf Eichmann
3. Oskar Schindler
PART II. PLACES
4. Auschwitz
5. Yad Vashem
6. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
What does the Holocaust mean at the end of the twentieth century? Tim Cole examines three of the Holocaust's most emblematic figures--Anne Frank, Adolf Eichmann and Oskar Schindler--and three of the Holocaust's most visited sites Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum--to show us how the Holocaust has been mythologized in the popular imagination. No available in paperback with a new introduction by the author that looks at recent films such as ‘Life is’ ‘Beautiful’.
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Myth of the 'Holocauast'
PART I: PEOPLE
1. Anne Frank
2. Adolf Eichmann
3. Oskar Schindler
PART II. PLACES
4. Auschwitz
5. Yad Vashem
6. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
What does the Holocaust mean at the end of the twentieth century? Tim Cole examines three of the Holocaust's most emblematic figures--Anne Frank, Adolf Eichmann and Oskar Schindler--and three of the Holocaust's most visited sites Auschwitz, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum--to show us how the Holocaust has been mythologized in the popular imagination. No available in paperback with a new introduction by the author that looks at recent films such as ‘Life is’ ‘Beautiful’.