Three Sinti and Roma women, Warsaw
This workshop will explore the opportunities and problems which photographic evidence from the Nazi regime presents in terms of displaying this history in contemporary exhibitions and museums.
Museum curators will speak from their experience working with such photographs, and they will discuss with academics how such material can be usefully employed in the visualisation of history for a wider public without inadvertently reproducing the ideological bias of those who produced the photographs, who were overwhelmingly representative of, or sympathetic with, the regime.
PANEL 1
Chair: Elizabeth Harvey
Simone Erpel (Deutsches Historisches Museum/German Historical Museum, Berlin) ‘Perpetrators on display: dealing with perpetrator photos in historical museums and exhibitions’
Insa Eschebach (Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück/Ravensbrück memorial site), ‘Perpetrator photography in the new permanent exhibition at the Ravensbrück Memorial Site’
ROUND TABLE 1: Violence and everydayness on display: photos of and by perpetrators
Chair: Lucy Bradnock
Participants: Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museum); Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort University); Neil Gregor (University of Southampton); Mark Rawlinson (University of Nottingham)
PANEL 2
Chair: Maiken Umbach
Marek Jaros (Wiener Library, London) ‘The customer’s view: material for an analysis of the public’s perception of Holocaust images’
Judy Cohen (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), ‘Jewish ghetto photographers: visualising the Holocaust through the eyes of the victims’
ROUND TABLE 2: Photos and their uses in Holocaust memory and education – disrupting perspectives?
Chair: Joerg Arnold
Participants: Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museum); James Griffiths (Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre); Nick Stargardt (University of Oxford), Aneesa Riffat (Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre).
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