The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a global human rights advocate – that is, about the politicization and institutionalization of the discourse on the Holocaust in the USA
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a global human rights advocate – that is, about the politicization and institutionalization of the discourse on the Holocaust in the USA

Summary/Abstract: One of the most renowned places of remembrance of the Holocaust is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (USHMM). It was erected next to the monuments to America’s leading heroes – Jefferson and Lincoln. Had the Holocaust been treated as a European problem that could have been avoided? This article deals with the politicization and institutionalization of the discourse on memory of the Holocaust in the USA in the form of the museum that is a cultural institution as well as a federal institution. On the account of recreation the discourse due to documentation from the archive of the USHMM, this paper shall provide evidence not only for he expected contribution of the USHMM in emphasizing the importance of human rights, but also of being a world’s advocate of them.

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