Hijacking Memory News Today

Emily Dische-Becker is a writer, organiser and curator, as well as a researcher for Forensis/Forensic Architecture, living in Berlin. She is on the steering committee ofthe Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism and the Germany director of Diaspora Alliance.She was an adviser for public programmes at Documenta fifteen and recently co-organised an international conference entitled ‘Hijacking Memory:The Holocaust and the New Right’ in Berlin.

On July 16, Sabine Schormann, managing director and CEO of Documenta 15, the world’s leading exhibition of contemporary art, resigned under massive political pressure. Previously, accusations of anti-Semitism against the art exhibition in Kassel had come to a head.