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When tragedy strikes an individual, a nation, or an entire people, artists and architects are tasked with designing a public display that memorializes the event and its victims. But how do you do that? In this episode, art historian and podcaster Tamar Avishai examines the Denkmal Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Vietnam War Memorial in DC, and others to look at how respecting and remembering loss collides with the demands of history…
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What does it mean to have memory versus history?
“a Denkmal is, essentially – and by design – a memorial that makes you think. And you can't help but think as you move through this space. But what you think about is your own business.”
“The Holocaust was a highly rational, highly modern industrialized murder and bureaucratic. And it was relentless, but it was also completely random.”
“most memorials, even contemporary ones, might last just about as long as the generation that built them, that there might be a shelf life of about 70 years.”
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