Historians like Harold Marcuse argue that there is now a “new genre or commemorative art distinct from older forms” and he argues that memorials today contain multiple meanings. Marcuse actually argues that the memorials of Majdanek concentration camp and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were created in order to show resistance. Marcuse further argues that memorials created right after the liberation of death camps in Nazi Germany hold ultimate significance as they were created to leave an everlasting reminder of the horrific events.
Albin Boniecki’s The Three Eagles Memorial:
Albin Boniecki was a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. When the war first broken out in 1939, he joined the Polish Underground Resistance however, in October 1942, …show more content…
The Germans entered the ghetto and the Jews that remained within the ghetto now knew that they were about to be murdered by the Germans and were determined to resist this. The prisoners within the ghetto refused to surrender to one of the SS guards who then proceeded to order the burning of the ghetto, block by block. In total, an estimated 13,000 Jews died, half of them through burning alive or being suffocated.
Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto:
The ‘Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto’ was created by the artist Nathan Rapoport in 1948. Rapoport based his memorial on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and his aim was simply to commemorate the events of the uprising.
Rapoport’s memorial is considered to be one of the most well-known, most widely celebrated, but controversial memorial. It is arguably the first memorial created after the Holocaust to mark and remember the bravery and heroism of the Jews, whilst also remembering their complete destruction, therefore making it a controversial memorial as it was considered as Rapoport’s first idea was even considered as being “too
Albin Boniecki’s The Three Eagles Memorial:
Albin Boniecki was a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. When the war first broken out in 1939, he joined the Polish Underground Resistance however, in October 1942, …show more content…
The Germans entered the ghetto and the Jews that remained within the ghetto now knew that they were about to be murdered by the Germans and were determined to resist this. The prisoners within the ghetto refused to surrender to one of the SS guards who then proceeded to order the burning of the ghetto, block by block. In total, an estimated 13,000 Jews died, half of them through burning alive or being suffocated.
Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto:
The ‘Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto’ was created by the artist Nathan Rapoport in 1948. Rapoport based his memorial on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and his aim was simply to commemorate the events of the uprising.
Rapoport’s memorial is considered to be one of the most well-known, most widely celebrated, but controversial memorial. It is arguably the first memorial created after the Holocaust to mark and remember the bravery and heroism of the Jews, whilst also remembering their complete destruction, therefore making it a controversial memorial as it was considered as Rapoport’s first idea was even considered as being “too