Christian Friedel as Höss.
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The film depicts the everyday life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family – yet, industrialised, genocidal violence moves along, continuously, in the background.
German troops enter Amsterdam in May 1940.
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40 years of research have shown that Jews, in Amsterdam and beyond, refused to be terrorised by Nazi oppression.
Orly Weintraub Gilad bears her grandfather’s Auschwitz number on her right arm.
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Alice Bloch talks about her research with the descendants of Holocaust survivors who have replicated the Auschwitz tattoo. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Orly Weintraub Gilad with her grandfather’s Auschwitz number, A-12599, tattooed on her arm.
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As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, such embodied memorialisation ensures people will still talk about what happened.
Wall of Names at Florida’s Jewish Holocaust Memorial, designed by Kenneth Treister.
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Many ordinary people in the UK who made it their business to help the hundreds of thousands of people at risk.
Jack Scanlon in the 2008 film adaptation of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
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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 Complete Maus and Maus Volume II by Art Spiegelman.
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Younger readers could try Judith Kerr’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
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As the last survivors die out, it is more important than ever to uncover physical evidence of Nazi atrocities.
Roma or Sinti girl imprisoned in Auschwitz. Pictures taken by the SS for their files.
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Up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
A student speaks with Holocaust survivor William Morgan using an interactive virtual conversation exhibit at the the Holocaust Museum Houston in January 2019.
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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.
The inscription on the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp (Poland): ‘Work makes you free’.
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More than 70-years after World War II, is Auschwitz still relevant to children today?
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Newly-discovered scripts reveal the public hopes, dreams and fears of prisoners in the World War II Jewish ghetto at Theresienstadt.
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What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
Leon Greenman.
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?