acbhm competition entry
a competition entry by my friend and mentor Kevin Kemner and myself (Aaron Malmedal)
The Holocaust consists of countless tragedies and moral insults, large and small, communal and individual. Memorializing genocide, remembering the Holocaust, is an architectural endeavor fraught with missteps, inadvertent references, the unintended trivialization of the victims, and in this instance, the Atlantic City Boardwalk, a site that challenges traditional notions of places of memorial and of remembrance.
Additionally, the immensity of genocide, the Holocaust, the magnitude of It, often leads to a dehumanization of the victims through the recitation of statistics rather than an understanding of the details of individual lives.
