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Book SynopsisThe Holocaust was the defining cataclysm of modernity. Now, more than three quarters of a century later, the immersive, interactive technologies of the digital age are dramatically refashioning our memory of that genocide. Virtual Holocaust Memory offers the first comprehensive account of a unique historical juncture, as twenty-first century digital culture meets the edge of living Holocaust memory. The book considers a range of projects that are being developed by museums, archives, businesses, and educational organizations in the USA and Europe, including interactive video testimony, Virtual Reality films, Augmented Reality apps, museum installations, and online exhibitions. Drawing on an original conceptual framework that incorporates connective memory, palimpsestic testimony, and a notion of ''truthfulness'' first applied to testimonial writing by the survivor Charlotte Delbo, this groundbreaking book argues that the value of virtual Holocaust memory--that is to say its truthfulnes
Trade ReviewVirtual Holocaust Memory is several books in one. * Bryan Cheyette, Times Literary Supplement *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Interactive Video Testimony Chapter One: Entering Dimensions in Testimony Chapter Two: Ghosting the Museum Chapter Three: Witness in the Light Stage Part II: Reading the Virtual Chapter Four: Virtual Landscapes Chapter Five: The Virtual Anne Frank Chapter Six: The Topography of Terror and Resistance to the Virtual Conclusion Bibliography Index
