The Zone of Interest: new Holocaust film powerfully lays bare the mechanisms of genocide: Warning: this article contains spoilers. The Zone of Interest opens by introducing viewers to a husband, wife and their family as they picnic by a river. The scene seems idyllic. Shortly after, the family drives home. Everything seems normal – but …
Fortnite’s new in-game Holocaust museum shows us a virtual future for education: A player in Fortnite visiting the Holocaust museum and learning about the Jews of Tunisia. Luc Bernard If you’ve played Fortnite, you’ll probably know it as a battle royale game in which you fight it out with around 100 other players until there …
The Holocaust shouldn’t be a catch-all metaphor for hate – but we can still learn from comparisons: Dmitrijs Mihejevs/Shutterstock Gary Lineker’s tweet criticising the government’s asylum policy has led many to question when – if ever – it can be helpful to compare modern events to history. The chair of the Holocaust Education Trust rushed …
Holocaust remembrance: we must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking as events pass out of living memory: praszkiewicz In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or “the age”, was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down from the oldest to the youngest. Recognising this profound idea, some have worried that the memory of the …
Teaching the Holocaust through literature: four books to help young people gain deeper understanding: A survey commissioned in 2019 revealed the shocking result that over half of Britons did not know that at least six millions Jews had been murdered during the Holocaust. This result was all the more surprising given the fact that the …
The Holocaust: remembering the powerful acts of ‘ordinary people’: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” the British author LP Hartley once wrote, hinting at the mystique of history – the idea that people in the past were somehow different to us in the 21st century. As many historians will tell …
Stolpersteine – the UK joins the world’s largest decentralised Holocaust memorial: Ruth Mandel The world’s largest memorial is about to get a little bigger, as it comes to Britain for the first time. It began life in 1992, when German artist Gunter Demnig laid the first “Stolperstein” – or stumbling stone – in Cologne, Germany. …
Anne Frank’s diary at 75: why it holds a special place in Holocaust literature: Tony Baggett/Shutterstock The best-selling Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan recently declared that the case of Anne Frank’s betrayal had been solved. Anne and her family, in hiding in Amsterdam, had been denounced by one Arnold van den Bergh, a well-known notary and …
Ukraine war: Putin’s ‘denazification’ campaign hits Babyn Yar holocaust memorial to 33,000 murdered Jews: In late September 1941, tens of thousands of Jews from the city of Kyiv were rounded up by the Germans with the help of Ukrainian militia. They were taken to a place called Babyn Yar, meaning “old woman’s ravine” in Ukrainian. …
LGBT+ history: The Amazing Life of Margot Heuman – how theatre gave voice to a queer Holocaust survivor: Many Holocaust plays feature Jewish teenagers coming of age in the shadow of the death camps. Yet these works often present sentimentalised, redemptive stories, such as the 1950s production of The Diary of Anne Frank. They foreground …
Most UK adults don’t know key details of the Holocaust – how it has been taught in schools may explain why: Students visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Shanae Ennis-Melhado/Shutterstock A survey exploring knowledge of the Holocaust has exposed limited awareness in the UK of some of the most fundamental aspects of this history. Conducted …
LGBTQ+ History Month: gay victims and survivors of the Holocaust are often forgotten – we need to tell their stories: Representatives from LGBTQ+ Compass Community Center in Florida pose in front of a 2012 exhibit called Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945 ZUMA Press Inc / Alamy Stock Photo Alongside the murder of six million Jews, …
Plans for UK Holocaust Memorial looked promising, but now debate has stalled: Giuseppe Crimeni/Shutterstock Remembrance of the Holocaust is essential if new generations are to be aware of the atrocities committed against the Jews and other groups during the Second World War. Since 2001, the UK has marked Holocaust Memorial Day annually. Under David Cameron’s …
Many young people still lack basic knowledge of the Holocaust: Photographs of Jewish families at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. GiuseppeCrimeni/Shutterstock A significant number of young adults in the US cannot name a single concentration camp or ghetto, believe that Jews caused the Holocaust and that two million or fewer Jews were killed. These …
TikTok Holocaust trend shows that we need to teach the ethics of remembrance: shutterstock BONDART PHOTOGRAPHY/Shutterstock Some used makeup to simulate bruises or burns. Others dressed in imitations of the striped uniforms of the concentration camps or wore a yellow star imprinted with the word “Jude” (Jew) – a reference to the symbol that Jewish …
Holocaust poetry and the reclamation of many identities: In the Living Quarters by Bedrich Fritta portrays Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto where early Holocaust poetry was written Wikimedia The first Holocaust poems were written 90 years ago, when the full extent of the horror was yet to be known. Starting in the 1930s, those first works foreshadowed …
Into the Arms of Strangers (Holocaust Remembrance) – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-05-06 19:00:00 in United States Into the Arms of Strangers (Holocaust Remembrance)April 6, 2019 at 7pm The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s. FAQ’s What about purchasing tickets on the day of …
Teen Culture Club: A Holocaust Survival Story w/Ann Lucas from Kol Israel Foundation – a Culture interest event taking place on 2018-11-14 14:30:00 in United States This club is all about the beauty of difference. Culture is a learned way of life that embodies the shared beliefs, customs, values, art, and behavior patterns of a …