Co się mówi i czego uczy o Holokauście w Internecie. Przykład Polski i USA

Abstract

The knowledge about the Holocaust is the credit of most states’ governments which included Holocaust education to school curriculum and supported visits at memory sites. One of the best known Holocaust memory place in the world apart from Israeli Yad Vashem is Auschwitz and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, whose prestige comes from location within National Mall, containing the most important monuments and institutions shaping American memory. Not everybody, however, has the opportunity to visit such places. Fortunately, the discourse within this places happens as well in a digital form, on the Internet. In this paper, the author wants to review what can be learnt from the official discourse of this institutions within the Internet. In order to do it she will tap into the internet archives of these institutions as well as the archive in the understanding of Michel Foucault. He introduces the term archive in order to define a set of rules, which in particular epoch and society determine the discourses, which is what can be said and how it can be said. The archive verifies as well what won’t be made public and therefore kept in social memory as important and legally obliging