Holocaust Memorials in America

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The structure of this text: The 1st paragraph: some introductions about the US Holocaust

Memorial Museum.

The 2nd paragraph: the three reasons

The 3rd paragraph: why the former president Jimmy Carter introduced the destruction into America’s culture

The 4th paragraph: Michael Berenbaum’s “Americanization of the Holocaust”----introducing the destruction into America’s culture

The 5th paragraph: transitional paragraph

The 6th paragraph~7th paragraph: the significance of the Museum

The 8th paragraph~12th paragraph: the impulse to anchor the memory to those Jewish Americans.

The 13th paragraph: what can Jews and non-Jews Americans learn from the Museum (conclusion part)

The 1st paragraph: the introduction about the US Memorial Museum

the grandest Holocaust museum it’s location what is the role of this museum in America---a

country far from the site of the Holocaust?

The 2nd paragraph: the three reasons

The 3rd paragraph: why introduced the destruction into America’s culture

This museum would depict the lives of “new Americans”.

It would reinforce America’s self-idealization as haven for the world is oppressed.

The 4th paragraph: This was called “ Americanization of the Holocaust” ---the Museum’s project director

The 6th paragraph~7th paragraph: the significance of the Museum

As a national landmark, it interprets the Holocaust according to the nation’s own idealized matrix, pluralist tenets:

---It illustrates the loss of life

---It illustrates the loss of human rights It belongs at the centre of American life since

America is a democratic civilization and the enemy of racism and genocide.

The 8th paragraph~ the 12th paragraph: to those Jews Americans, the impulse (additional factors) to anchor the memory

American’s culture of assimilation—religious differences are tolerated and de-emphasized

Without the traditional pillars of Torah, faith, language to bind them

The common experience unites people who also suffered the Holocaust to fight against the potential destruction although they are in different countries, having different religions (left-wing and right-wing, religious and secular, Zionist and non-Zionist).

------They may draw different conclusions from the Holocaust, but they all agree that it must be remembered.

The 13th paragraph: the conclusion part

----------What Jews and non-Jews can learn from the Museum

It organizes Jewish culture and identity around this one area.

Many Jews and non-Jews in America can learn the whole of Jewish history through the lens of the Holocaust and non-Jewish Americans can know about a thousand years of European Jewish civilization.