Title: Never too late to remember
First published: 1996
Description: Why has New York City, the largest center of Jewish culture and home to more survivors than any other city in the United States, taken more than half a century to begin implementing plans for its Holocaust memorial?

Because the process of memorializing of any historical event, Rochelle Saidel explains, is inevitably political, and she gives a detailed analysis of how various groups within the American Jewish community, local power brokers, real estate developers, and major political players have all influenced the memorial's progress.

Never Too Late To Remember traces the history of the numerous attempts to create a Holocaust memorial in New York City that began in 1946-47, and focuses on the present project, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, facing the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in lower Manhattan and scheduled to open in 1997.

Saidel is frank in attributing the many false starts and delays to conflicting political agendas, tensions among project organizers, and broken promises and commitments. More than a story of back-room politics, Never Too Late To Remember places New York City's project in the broader framework of Holocaust memorialization, thereby examining the dynamic between memory, ideology, politics, and representation.
Subjects: Politics and government, Museums, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews, Holocaust memorials, New york (n.y.), galleries and museums, Jews, united states, politics and government, New york (n.y.), politics and government
Places: New York (State), United States, New York (N.Y.), New York
Time periods: 1951-
LC classification: D804.175.N49 S25 1996