Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Holocaust and Human Rights : Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorial Museums / Jennifer Barrett, Avril Alba, and A. Dirk Moses -- A Necessary Crossroads : The Evolving Relationship of Historical Memory and Rights Discourses in Holocaust and Human Rights Museums / Jennifer Carter -- The Anne Frank House : "A Child of Its Time"? / Avril Alba -- Museum Walls : Human Rights, Memory, and Image at Kazerne Dossin / Jennifer Barrett -- Representation and Memorialization of the Victims of the Krankenmorde (Nazi "Euthanasia") / Edwina Light, Michael Robertson, Hagen Markwardt, Christoph Hanzig, Garry Walter, and Wendy Lipworth -- The Social Agency of Museums in Civic Engagement : Investigating the Impact of Commemorative Learning Programs at Holocaust Museums / Steven Cooke and Donna-Lee Frieze -- From the Transnational to the Intimate : Multidirectional Memory, the Holocaust, and Colonial Violence in Australia and Beyond / Rosanne Kennedy and Sulamith Graefenstein -- Making Visible the Australian Frontier Wars and Comparative Memorialization / Brook Andrew, Marcia Langton, and Jessica Neath -- The Development of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre / Tali Nates and Shirli Gilbert -- The Munir Human Rights Museum and Its Challenge to Traditions of Authoritarian Political Museology in Indonesia / Vannessa Hearman -- Nunca Más : Chile's Museum of Memory and Human Rights / Amy Sodaro.

"Museums that link the Holocaust with social justice, human rights, and genocide prevention have been founded in many countries--for example, the Kazerne Dossin Memorial Museum in Belgium, the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre in South Africa--making Holocaust and human rights museums a global phenomenon. It is not uncommon for these institutions to court controversy by linking the Holocaust to human rights issues in their locales and abroad. Some begin from a "Holocaust core" and extrapolate from this history to address broader concerns, while others integrate the Holocaust as "a" or, at times, "the" case study par excellence of human rights abuses. Other institutions that may not explicitly focus on the Holocaust continue to engage these representational practices to highlight other instances of genocide and human rights abuses. The case studies in this book reveal convergences between Holocaust and human rights museums in their demands for social justice and reparation, educational and activist purpose, design principles, and curatorial choices; but they are also shown to be sites of contestation around how stories of suffering, courage, and survival are told, whose stories are prioritized, and who is consulted"-- Provided by publisher.