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· "A faithful account." - Richard C. Dieter, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center · "In-depth, fair-minded and sensitive." - Carol Steiker, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School · "Intense yet compassionate." - Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking · "Clearly written and persuasive." - Harry Charles, Library Journal · "Sensitive, nuanced, and empathetic." - Contemporary Psychology · "Provocative, interesting, and deserve[s] attention." - Choice "Important, comprehensive, and insightful analysis." - Rutgers.

Based on interviews with 27 victims' family members and survivors, this chapter explores how memory of the Oklahoma City bombing was constructed through participation in groups formed after the bombing and participation in the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. It first addresses the efficacy of a collective memory perspective. It then describes the mental context in which interviewees joined groups after the bombing, the recovery functions groups played, and their impact on punishment expectations. Next, it discusses a media-initiated involuntary relationship between McVeigh and interviewees. Finally, this chapter examines execution witnesses' perceptions of communication with McVeigh in his trial and execution. [Copyright 2008 Elsevier Ltd.]

'Paradoxal Stranger' is a group exhibition of local and international artists working in the medium of video. Gallery MOMO Cape Town asked the artists to respond to ideas of the 'stranger' and the 'citizen' and what these terms might mean in relation to belonging and alienation in a variety of different political, institutional and social contexts. Sight of Memory - Film Whitney McVeigh (b.1968, New York) locates her practice within the interdisciplinary area of research entitled Human Fabric, looking at a collective human history by connecting common threads in land, clothing, belongings and philosophies. Sight of Memory depicts civilian life in Syria in 2009 and is a poetic reflection on the small, intimate exchanges which comprised everyday life at the time. There is an underlying tension due to the retrospective awareness of the widespread conflict which will break out two years later.

Life and Death in the Third Reich By Peter Fritzsche Harvard University Press, 2008 384 pages Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past By Neil Gregor Yale University Press, 2008 336 pages