The photographs of people who were victims of Nazi persecution: building a collection; interrogating its meaning

该项目将通过收集，复制和记录前犹太人和非犹太难民以及大屠杀幸存者的家庭的照片来巩固IWM与大屠杀有关的收藏品，并将产生一个博士学位，该博士学位将反映这些收藏品并确定它们的新含义。Yaffa Eliach的《曾经有一个世界》，Noam Shenker的《重构大屠杀证词》和其他作品都在某种程度上讨论了这类材料，但目前还没有一个基于大屠杀幸存者在英国安家的照片的深入学术研究。该项目将涉及继续现有的IWM倡议，收集战前家庭生活的照片，这些家庭的财产和/或财产，或曾向IWM提供证词。由此产生的收藏将意味着目前创建新的大屠杀画廊的项目（预计于2020年开放），将支持他们的学习计划以及IWM对大屠杀的未来解释将得到高质量，经过充分研究的图像集的支持。类似的照片可以在欧洲，美国和以色列的展览中看到，越来越多地在网站上展示和解释（波兰犹太人历史博物馆网站上的虚拟Shtetl是最近的一个例子）。IWM项目将为学生提供与这些其他举措联系的机会，并将最佳实践导入IWM，以及通过我们自己的网页增加有关该主题的知识总和。研究领域可能包括：世纪早期中欧和东欧的摄影棚，包括家庭对记录的特定活动的偏好，以及这种偏好如何以及是否因不同职业/宗教信仰/地区而有所不同;研究家庭照片如何在博物馆和其他展览中使用，包括这些展览背后的思想以及它们是如何被接受的;以及对这些照片本身所拍摄的旅程以及人们是如何看待它们的考察，美国大屠杀纪念馆的摄影档案馆将提供咨询意见，维也纳图书馆、国家大屠杀中心和博物馆、Yad Vashem和南加州大学Shoah基金会也将提供信息。

This project will consolidate IWM's collections relating to the Holocaust through collecting, copying and documenting the photographs that exist of the families of former Jewish and non-Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors, and will produce a PhD which will reflect on these collections and determine new meanings from them. Yaffa Eliach's There once was a world, Noam Shenker's Reframing Holocaust Testimony and other works have addressed this kind of material to some degree, but there has yet to be an in-depth academic study based on the photographs of Holocaust survivors who made their home in the UK.The project would involve continuing an existing IWM initiative to collect the photographs of the pre-war lives of families whose possessions and/ or testimony have been given to IWM. The resulting collection would mean that the present project to create new Holocaust Galleries (due to open in 2020), the learning programmes that will support them and future interpretations of the Holocaust at IWM will be backed up by a high-quality, well-researched collection of images.Similar photographs can be seen in exhibitions across Europe, the US and Israel, and are increasingly being shown and interpreted on websites (Virtual Shtetl on the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews website being a recent example). The IWM project would offer the opportunity for the student to connect with these other initiatives, and to import best practice to IWM, as well as adding to the sum of knowledge on this subject through our own webpages.Research areas might include: early twentieth century studio photography in Central and Eastern Europe, including families' preferences for particular activities to be recorded and how and whether this differed according to different occupations/ religious beliefs/ regions; a study of how photographs of families have been used in museums and other displays, including the thinking behind those displays and how they have been received; and an examination of the journeys which the photographs themselves took and how they have been viewed, discussed and treated by the families concerned.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Photographic Archive will be a source of advice and information, as will The Wiener Library, The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Yad Vashem and the USC Shoah Foundation.