The Witness as Object: Video Testimony in Memorial MuseumsIn recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become important components in narrative and exhibition design strategies. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time the new global phenomenon of the "musealization" of the witness to history, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits. |
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aesthetics analyse Assmann audience Auschwitz Auschwitz-Birkenau authenticity become Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Bergen-Belsen Memorial bystanders camera collecting video testimonies communicative memory Concentration Camp concept cultural memory curators Eichmann trial empathy event example exhibition chapter exhibition design experiences film focus Fortunoff Archive German give testimony Holocaust Exhibition Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust survivors human Imperial War Museum individual memory integration interview 2009 Jewish Jews Jureit juridical witness Laub Lower Saxony Memorials main exhibition means memorial culture Memorials Foundation 2010 musealization of video Museo Diffuso narrative Neuengamme Memorial observes oral history original past perpetrators photographs present prisoners remember represent representation Saxony Memorials Foundation Second World Second World War secondary witnessing Shoah Foundation stories tertiary witnessing testimo testimonies in museums testimonies of Holocaust timonies tion Treblinka Extermination Camp Turin TV documentaries underline United States Holocaust Unlike victims video testi video testimonies viewers Welzer witnesses to history Yad Vashem YouTube Zeitzeuge