Danny M Cohen
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Professor  >  Holocaust Memory, Memorials & Museums


What is Holocaust memory? How has Holocaust memory changed over time, and how does the Holocaust continue to affect our understanding of trauma, atrocity, and human rights today?

This course addresses individual memory, including survivor and witness testimony, memory and trauma, and the impact of the Holocaust on survivors' families and communities.

We also explore collective Holocaust memory and the development of mainstream framings of Holocaust history. We consider Jewish, Roma, and other victim narratives, including national memorialization, rituals of commemoration, and the development of Holocaust memorials, museums, and institutions in the United States and around the world. And we study how we have come to remember the Nazi perpetrators and their collaborators.


We draw on course texts, including film and fiction, to ask questions about the relationships between individual and collective memories, as well as between commemoration and education.


School of Education & Social Policy
​The Crown Family Center for Jewish & Israel Studies
Northwestern University

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  • About
    • Profile
    • CV & Affiliations
    • In the News
    • Contact
  • Writer
    • Train
    • The 19th Window
    • Dead Ends
    • Non-Fiction >
      • A Day In The Life Of...
      • Overlapping Triangles
      • Masks of Holocaust Memory
      • Teaching About T4
      • When A Boxcar Isn't A Boxcar
      • Crying At The Museum
      • Magical Transports & Transformations
      • Ghosts of Auschwitz
      • Something Missing At Treblinka
      • Ava and Miriam
      • Behind 'The 19th Window'
      • When There Are No Words
      • Holocaust Remembrance Delayed
      • Love, War, and Fairy Tale Endings
      • Never Heard
      • The 'R' Word
      • To My Teacher, Mr. Paszek
      • Laughing About Rape
      • Is There A Canopy In Store For Me?
      • Present Past
      • I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz
  • Professor
    • Holocaust Education Design
    • Holocaust Memory, Memorials & Museums
    • Magic, Monsters & The Holocaust
    • Designing for Social Change
  • Public Speaker
    • Available Programs & Services
    • Past Programs
  • Musician
  • Unsilence