The Conference served as a platform to bring scholarship on Holocaust exhibition history together and discuss prospects of future research. In nine different panels contemporary research and future perspectives were discussed not only among researchers but also museum professionals and artists. Throughout the conference, attention was given to the production and circulation of knowledge about the Holocaust, with special attention to the early postwar years as well as the role and networks of survivors across the Iron Curtain in organizing, curating and producing exhibitions. Also, the highly precarious status of documentation and scarce sources became visible in many lectures; often little to no official documentation of the discussed exhibitions existed. Thus researchers often traced their content, narratives and display in various archives and sources for the first time…..
Conference report by Katharina Langolf & Laura Schilling