About the Exhibition
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Remembering, Representing, Reframing, is the result of graduate student research from the course ENGL 7239: Holocaust and Gender, a Special Topics course in Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of English MA.
Students did research in Washington DC at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany (online). They focused on the rhetoric of public memory in national Holocaust museums, seeking to discover how gender might appear in these historical and memory narratives.
What the students found became a fascinating story about what we remember, how we present it, and how that story may or may not do justice to the gendered nature of those experiences.
This research was funded by a Germany on Campus grant, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Humanities. Further funding was provided by the Office of the President (GS), the College of Graduate Studies, and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
Exhibition Note
It is crucial to bear witness to the Holocaust and any historical trauma and violence so that we honor those who died, and so society's collective public memory is accountable to the past and the present. This 2024 exhibit is haunted by the deaths of both Palestinians and Israelis in the ongoing war. We must always bear witness and act to prevent suffering and genocide.
For more information contact Dr. Lisa A. Costello: lacostello@georgiasouthern.edu
