Engaging Agency during Genocide: A Close Reading of the Sections “Massacre” and “Killing Centres” in the Holocaust Galleries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents VII
4. Abbreviations
5. Introduction: Between Curation and Scholarly Analysis – the Holocaust Galleries as a Case Study for Holocaust Representation in the Museum 1
6. Part I: Conception & Design
7. “Not a Book on the Wall”: Conception and Design of the Holocaust Galleries 19
8. Conception, Design, Interpretation: The Holocaust Learning Programme at the Imperial War Museum London 157
9. Experiences as Rabbinic Advisor to the Imperial War Museum when Creating the Holocaust Galleries 183
10. Opening a Door into History: Artefacts that Revealed my Family’s Past and the Imperial War Museum 191
11. Part II: Conversation
12. Narrating the Holocaust in the New Holocaust Galleries of the Imperial War Museum London: James Bulgin and Suzanne Bardgett in Conversation with Stephan Jaeger 201
13. Part III: Interpretation
14. A New Schema for Cultural Memory: The Holocaust Galleries 287
15. Shifting Theatricalities in the Holocaust Galleries 311
16. Holocaust Representation in the Museum in Experiential Structures: Between History and Meta-Reflexive Narrative Form 323
17. Engaging Agency during Genocide: A Close Reading of the Sections “Massacre” and “Killing Centres” in the Holocaust Galleries 347
18. Visitor Engagement with the Holocaust Galleries 367
19. “The Walls Are where They Are”: An Infrastructural Approach to the Holocaust Galleries 395
20. Notes on Contributors
21. Index