The texture of memory : Holocaust memorials and meaning / James E. Young.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-390) and index.

Introduction : the texture of memory -- The countermonument : memory against itself in Germany -- The sites of destruction -- The Gestapo-Gelände : topography of unfinished memory -- Austria's ambivalent memory -- The rhetoric of ruins : the memorial camps at Majdanek and Auschwitz -- The biography of a memorial icon : Nathan Rapoport's Warsaw Ghetto Monument -- Broken tablets and Jewish memory in Poland -- Israel's memorial landscape : forests, monuments, and kibbutzim -- Yad Vashem : Israel's memorial authority -- When a day remembers : a performative history of Yom Hashoah -- The plural faces of Holocaust memory in America -- Memory and the politics of identity : Boston and Washington, D.C.