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Holocaust denial is connected to antisemitism, and exploring life prior to the Holocaust illustrates a trajectory of antisemitc expression.
It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust victims went through.
Holocaust stories have often been criticised for their distortions and misrepresentations, but they can also encourage audiences to learn from history.
In The Zone of Interest, Martin Amis represents our familiar world from a radically unfamiliar angle.
Memoirs about the Holocaust by women emphasize women’s embodied, gendered experiences, and show their intelligence, agency and resolve in the face of Nazi persecution.
An expert in the representation of the Holocaust on film explains the responsibility of the reader to educate themselves beyond the depth of a single work of fiction.
The past of the Holocaust still haunts the present and calls out to Canadian writers. Their works of poetry and prose are forms of remembrance that command our attention.
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Professor, Department of English, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW
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PhD Candidate, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
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Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, MacEwan University
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University