Forms of ‘rescue archaeology’ are working to save the testimony of survivors before it is too late.
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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.
The film depicts the everyday life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family – yet, industrialised, genocidal violence moves along, continuously, in the background.
40 years of research have shown that Jews, in Amsterdam and beyond, refused to be terrorised by Nazi oppression.
Alice Bloch talks about her research with the descendants of Holocaust survivors who have replicated the Auschwitz tattoo. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, such embodied memorialisation ensures people will still talk about what happened.
Many ordinary people in the UK who made it their business to help the hundreds of thousands of people at risk.
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.
Younger readers could try Judith Kerr’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
As the last survivors die out, it is more important than ever to uncover physical evidence of Nazi atrocities.
Up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
In anticipation of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a scholar explains how digital technologies can help close knowledge gaps about the catastrophe that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews.
More than 70-years after World War II, is Auschwitz still relevant to children today?
Newly-discovered scripts reveal the public hopes, dreams and fears of prisoners in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Theresienstadt.
What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
The life and times of Holocaust survivor Leon Greenman should inspire people, while also helping to challenge extremism, so why isn’t he better known?
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