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21st Century Holocaust Memorials in Ottawa and London as National Sacred Spaces

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dc.contributor Tollerton, David
dc.contributor Jordan, James
dc.creator Mutton, I
dc.date 2023-01-09T08:23:43Z
dc.date 2022-12-12
dc.date 2023-01-05T20:14:33Z
dc.date 2023-01-09T08:23:43Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-23T12:19:02Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-23T12:19:02Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10871/132181
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/258748
dc.description This thesis critically and uniquely compares two recent national Holocaust memorial projects: the Canadian National Holocaust Monument, Ottawa, and the proposed United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, London. Using interviews with key figures involved in each project, the designs and the discourses surrounding them, I consider how these memorials fit within their broader national contexts, including with regard to Holocaust commemoration. In particular, this thesis examines how the two memorials can be understood as sacred spaces. I argue that they can be classified as sacred spaces, both in terms of how they are intended to function and how they are received, engaged with and experienced by visitors over time. They clearly manifest recurring characteristics of such sites and those involved in their creation perceive them as sacred spaces. This thesis also considers how the Canadian National Holocaust Monument and proposed United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre can be viewed as part of a lineage of existing Holocaust memorials and memorial museums around the world, including with regard to sacrality. Despite this, I demonstrate that these two new memorials also mark something different to what has gone before, as 21st century state-led projects, with limited Jewish community involvement, in countries where the events of the Holocaust did not take place.
dc.publisher University of Exeter
dc.publisher Theology and Religion
dc.rights 2024-06-30
dc.rights I am hoping to publish this thesis and therefore would like it to be embargoed to allow for this. 30/6/24
dc.rights http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
dc.subject Holocaust memorials
dc.subject sacred space
dc.subject Holocaust Monument Ottawa
dc.subject UK Holocaust Memorial
dc.subject Holocaust museums
dc.subject Holocaust education centres
dc.title 21st Century Holocaust Memorials in Ottawa and London as National Sacred Spaces
dc.type Thesis or dissertation
dc.type PhD Theology and Religion
dc.type Doctoral
dc.type Doctoral Thesis


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