Children's Erratic Memories of the Holocaust: On Cross-Cutting Exchanges in Exhibitions and Visual Projects
Children's Erratic Memories of the Holocaust: On Cross-Cutting Exchanges in Exhibitions and Visual Projects

Summary/Abstract: My paper analyzes two recent French exhibitions dedicated to Holocaust child survivors and two visual projects by children of Holocaust survivors from Poland and the U.S. I argue that the generations of child survivors and children of survivors share a form of memory which I call erratic memory, one which is fragmented, limited, evanescent, fleeting and erring at times. The function of such projects is to use the model of erratic memories as structuring blocs of their albums and exhibitions which have a unique potential to foster new generations' questions and queries that constantly acknowledge and confront the hard-to-reconcile contradictory meanings associated to increasingly more distant Holocaust experiences.

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