Communicating the Past: Exhibiting the Holocaust in Memorial Museums

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the Holocaust. As the past slips further away, and there are fewer and fewer survivors and eyewitnesses left to share their stories of survival and resilience, Holocaust memorial museums will become even more critical educational spaces. This talk will focus on the evolving ways in which the Holocaust is represented in museums and the challenges ahead in communicating this history to new generations.

Amy Sodaro’s research focuses on memorialization of past violence in memorial museums. She is the author of Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence (2018) and Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race and Slavery in US Museums (2025), and co-editor of Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights (2019) and Museums and Mass Violence (2025). She is an Editor of the Sage journal Memory Studies and co-chair of the Memory Studies Association Museums and Memory working group.

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