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traumatic histories

Private memories, public memorials: the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide

06 January 2025 – Ummul Muhseneen

advocacy, oral history, commemoration, memorials, memorial museum, traumatic histories, NCPH 2024 Awards, victim recognition, 1971 Bangladesh Genocide

As part of my dissertation research on the memorialization of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide, I have encountered silences in related memorials and in the archives. These silences have led me to ask: What role might oral testimonies play in remedying the silences that surround official attempts to memorialize mass atrocity crimes? Read More

“Bearing Witness”: Reflection, Community, and Building Support for Memorial Museum Workers

15 May 2024 – Hillary Moses Mohaupt

memorial museum, traumatic histories, vocation

Spend an afternoon at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, a lynching memorial, or a Holocaust museum, and you might emerge exhausted, the heaviness of your visit weighing on your consciousness. Staff at memorial museums that teach about mass trauma experience similar effects, but they are also tasked with protecting the history, memory, and stories that are related to that traumatic past. Read More