Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice

by Jessica Rapson

Book Overview

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of "monument fatigue", a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785335111
• ISBN13: 9781785335112
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"