ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book talks about the 'Holocaust' within different national contexts, resonates with the sense of different 'Holocausts'. It suggests the 'Anne Frank' assumes a universal meaning in the immediate post-war context, which comes to be overlaid with a more specifically Jewish set of meanings once the myth of the 'Holocaust' has emerged. In many ways, the myth of the 'Holocaust' seems flexible enough to cope with those competing narratives and conflicting meanings. The major products of the American 'year of the Holocaust' – the 'Holocaust' museums in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, and Spielberg's filmic 'Holocaust' – were heavily criticised in Israel. Israel is fighting back, and in particular Yad Vashem is seeking to claim back the Shoah from Washington, DC. At the end of the twentieth century one by-product of the myth of the 'Holocaust' is the 'denial of the Holocaust'.
