On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the time – and how it changed journalism.
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The liberation of Auschwitz is being commemorated in the shadow of rising antisemitism in Australia and globally.
Evidence suggests that high-school students visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau may increase their empathy towards Jewish people.
People have long visited places like Auschwitz-Birkenau and, more recently, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Now we’re seeing ‘solidarity tours’ to Israel’s October 7 sites and war tourism in Ukraine.
Hermann Pollnow’s parents saved him from the Nazi Germany they wouldn’t survive. His story, told by his Australian granddaughter, reminds us the Holocaust is a global history, not just a European one.
On the trail of Convoy 31000 – the only transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau that was made up entirely of women deported from France for political activities.
We analysed hundreds of selfies and found some people were shamed more than others.
After half of all European Jews were killed by the Nazis, the post-Holocaust credo of Jews around the world has been “Never again!” But there’s been a surge in anti-Semitism since 2017.
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Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW
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Associated Professor in Tourism, Edinburgh Napier University
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PhD Researcher, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Assoc. Prof. of Religion, Society and Culture, Bishop's University
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Associate Professor of Intercultural Communications (Tourism and Languages), Edinburgh Napier University
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Director, Relwar Project, Senior Research Fellow, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Lund University
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Professor of Holocaust Studies and Jewish Civilisation, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor (Reader), Director of the Law and Justice minor, The University of Melbourne