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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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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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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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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