Holocaust icons : symbolizing the Shoah in history and memory /

Stier, Oren Baruch, 1966-

Holocaust icons : symbolizing the Shoah in history and memory / Oren Baruch Stier. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xviii, 239 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Holocaust symbols: the shapes of memory -- Different trains: Holocaust artifacts and the ideologies of remembrance -- Thresholds of initiation: Arbeit macht frei -- From innocence to experience: an icon comes of age -- Anne Frank as a literary icon ; Anne Frank as visual icon -- The Holocaust as an iconic number: six million -- Looking again at Holocaust icons.



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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
Semiotics--Social aspects.
Signs and symbols--Social aspects.
Memorialization--Social aspects.
Collective memory.


Electronic Books.

D804 / .H656 2015