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Even before the end of World War II and the liberation of all of the Nazi concentration camps, the camp at Majdanek, Poland, was turned into something of a ‘museum,’ intended to document what had happened there, honor the victims who had perished and stand as a grim reminder to the world of the atrocities that human beings are capable of (Young 1993). Though the Holocaust did not yet have a name, its memory was already invoked in the name of what would become the Holocaust’s greatest mantra: ‘never again.’ In another world region, the city government of Hiroshima, Japan, decided to create a set of memorials to victims of the atomic bomb that was dropped on 6 August 1945. These memorials would serve as ‘reminders of the past and contributions to a future of lasting peace.’1
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Bickford, L., Sodaro, A. (2010). Remembering Yesterday to Protect Tomorrow: The Internationalization of a New Commemorative Paradigm. In: Gutman, Y., Brown, A.D., Sodaro, A. (eds) Memory and the Future. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230292338_5
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