Violence Memory and History

<p>What did people hear about <i>Kristallnacht </i>outside of Germany in 1938 from governments and media sources? How did governments and ordinary people respond to the plight of the Jewish community there? How have lives been affected by <i>Kristallnacht </i>in the seventy years since its occurrence? This interdisciplinary study of erasure and enshrinement seeks to answer these questions exploring issues of memory and forgetting (in both the material and symbolic sense) and how the meaning of <i>Kristallnacht </i>has been altered by various actors since 1938. </p>