A dedicated group of History students from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) have undertaken a meaningful project to study and revise the public tour experience at the Nashville Holocaust Memorial, located on the grounds of the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Bellevue.
The students in Assistant Professor Ashley Valanzola’s class “Holocaust Justice and Memory” began the project with a guided tour of the Memorial courtesy of Marsha Raimi, the Memorial’s Docent Chair, who has also been auditing the class. As part of their collaboration with the Memorial, the students have been charged with conducting in-depth research into the content of the tour, aiming to expand pre-existing research on the Memorial. Through diligent historical inquiry, the students hope to do justice to the memory and symbolism that the Memorial represents. The completion of the project is marked by several students delivering the revised tour.
Readers of this article are invited to attend the student-led tours, which will be conducted on Sunday, December 7th, between 11:00am and 12:30pm, followed by a reception at the Pargh Arts Center. Email ashley.valanzola@mtsu.edu to RSVP for the event.
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