Jeffrey Shandler, "Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices"
English | ISBN: 1503601951, 1503602893 | 2018 | EPUB | 232 pages | 14 MB

The Visual History Archive's holdings are extensive―over 100,000 hours of video, including interviews with over 50,000 individuals―and came about at a time of heightened anxiety about the imminent passing of the generation of Holocaust survivors and other eyewitnesses. Now, the Shoah Foundation's investment in new digital media is instrumental to its commitment to remembering the Holocaust both as a subject of historical importance in its own right and as a paradigmatic moral exhortation against intolerance. Shandler not only considers the Archive as a whole, but also looks closely at individual survivors' stories, focusing on narrative, language, and spectacle to understand how Holocaust remembrance is mediated.