The new Dallas (Texas) Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, which opened in September 2019, includes a “Genocide Gallery.”  The museum was designed by Edward Jacobs and Michael Berenbaum (Berenbaum Jacobs Associates). Jacobs is a gifted creative designer who lives in Jerusalem and is partnered with Berenbaum who is widely known and respected for his having been responsible for the selection of all the materials on display in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

The Genocide Gallery composes 10 sculptures, 18 foot high, each corresponding to a different genocide as well as emphasizing a distinct stage in the characteristic development of a genocidal event.

These stages are based on the excellent summary prepared by Gregory Stanton on “Ten Stages of Genocide” which he first presented to the U.S. State Department in 1996.

http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/tenstagesofgenocide.html 

These stages were in turn based to a large extent on the earlier work of Israel W. Charny and his colleague Chanan Rappaport who conceived of the Genocide Early Warning System – GEWS,  which won high praise from world leaders such as Willie Brandt of Germany, Pierre Mendes-France of France, and by Roberta Cohen, Human Rights Officer of the US Department of State. It was described in Choice, the American Library Association review magazine, as “brilliant,” and in the New York Times Book Review as a “noteworthy contribution to thinking about the condition of humanity on the earth”; and it was recognized by a United Nations study on genocide. (GEWS was first published as a monograph by the Szold National Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences in Jerusalem in 1977 and in a fuller fashion appeared in Charny’s 1982 book, How Can We Commit the Unthinkable? Genocide the Human Cancer.

 Accompanying the ten sculptures in the Genocide Gallery are ten highly original “graphic novels,” which people will recognize as comic books’ style, and which like the classic presentation MAUS by Art Spiegelman tell the tales of the ten genocides in a language which is designed to touch a wide range of ages and audiences.

Click here to view the text by Edward Jacobs and Michael Berenbaum that is distributed at the museum about the Genocide Gallery.