"It's much more than just an annual report" - Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site and Museum's report publication

"It’s much more than just an annual report. We have tried to create the broadest possible picture of what was Auschwitz Memorial in 2008. We published a document which is our voice in a global debate on the condition and the future of remembrance", said Piotr M.A. Cywiński, PhD, the Museum director (quote after http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=580&Itemid=7).
The publication contains 70 colour pages and is bilingual: Polish and English and covers the most important events at the Memorial Site and Museum in the year 2008. Its .pdf format version is available for download.
[Click the picture if you wish to see/download the .pdf form of report]

New Exhibition at USHMM: The Power of Nazi Propaganda

"Can words and images inspire people to commit acts of genocide? The Nazis were skilled propagandists, but they were hardly the first or the last Disseminators of intolerance and hate in this age of instant electronic communication have many tools.
The Museum's new exhibition State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda examines what propaganda is, how it was used, and what its implications are for our world today.

The exhibition will run for three years as part of a major Museum initiative on propaganda, supported by the Marcus Foundation. The initiative includes a companion website, book, public programs, and a traveling exhibition, as well as educational programming for media and government officials. " - from the official exhibit info.

Patterns of prejudice (Jan 2009)

PATTERNS OF PREJUDICE Volume 43, issue 1 (January 2009)

Table of Contents (links redirect to abstracts only):

• Samuel Moyn: Antisemitism, philosemitism and the rise of Holocaust memory
• Peter Kuryla: Parties down at the square amid courtroom melodramas: a reconsideration of the modern civil rights movement demonstration
• Derek McGhee: The paths to citizenship: a critical examination of immigration policy in Britain since 2001
• Amelia H. Lyons: Social welfare, French Muslims and decolonization in France: the case of the Fonds d'action sociale
• David D. Roberts: Review Article: Fascism, modernism and the quest for an alternative modernity

"Patterns of Prejudice provides a forum for exploring the historical roots and contemporary varieties of social exclusion and the demonization or stigmatisation of the Other. It probes the language and construction of 'race', nation, colour, and ethnicity, as well as the linkages between these categories. It encourages discussion of issues at the top of the public policy agenda, such as asylum, immigration, hate crimes and citizenship. As none of these issues are confined to any one region, Patterns of Prejudice maintains a global optic, at the same time as scrutinizing intensely the history and development of intolerance and chauvinism in the United States and Europe, both East and West".

more: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0031322X.asp