The social inheritance of the Holocaust

"This book challenges current thinking on memory and established ideas about how the past, especially atrocity, is handed down. The book addresses how social memories of the Nazi Holocaust are inherited through different media in ways that are gendered. It includes original analyses of genocide in historiography, in people's autobiographies, in documentary and feature films, memorial sites and museums in Britain, Poland and the USA.

It includes work with young people in different national contexts talking about how they learnt about the Holocaust. The book brings to its analysis of Holocaust history and memory, some of the recent insights of feminist media studies, showing how memories are socially constructed and articulated in relation to gender.

The book raises public debate in this neglected area and offers a new and complex approach to understanding the significance of gender in relation to cultural mediations of history and the Nazi Holocaust in particular."--BOOK JACKET.