Educators have successfully leveraged new forms of Holocaust remembrance using social media tools. Included have been a series of memory related hashtags in use on Twitter and Facebook, live Instagram stories from memorial sites and concentration camps as well as Zoom discussions with Holocaust survivors across the globe. This transition was described by the author as particularly important because prior to Corona, many memorials objected to such means of communication out of fear that it would commercialize or even distort legitimate Holocaust memory.
‘Lithuanians, not Jews, should be talking about the Holocaust’ – interview
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Jews in Vilnius ghetto, 1941 / AP
To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, LRT.lt speaks with Ruth Reches, a Jewish-Lithuanian scholar and the headmaster of the Shalom Aleichem Gymnasium in Vilnius, whose grandparents survived the Second World War.
The family of Ruth s grandfather, Samuel, owned a pharmacy in Alytus, a town in southern Lithuania. When the Second World War began, however, they decided to move to a smaller town, Veisiejai, to be closer to relatives and people they knew.
Unfortunately, the police soon knocked on their door and said that all Jews were required to return to the place where they were registered. Ruth s great-grandmother decided to go to Alytus to try and secure a permission for the family to stay in Veisiejai.
Education Minister Alan Tudge said the new memorial would allow Australian students, teachers and the wider community to better understand the Holocaust and its impact on the world.
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Jan. 26, 2021
Smiles, games, dances; hikes and fun. The photographs on display in “My Lost Childhood,” the new exhibition on the Yad Vashem website, present an aspect of the post-Holocaust renaissance that is full of life.
About 1.5 million children were murdered in the Holocaust, but tens of thousands survived in camps, forests, monasteries, Christian homes, various hiding places, and in the streets. Some children were found still alive in the concentration camps after the war.
“Children and teenagers experienced the Holocaust in all its brutality: in ghettos, in camps, in hiding, wandering from place to place, and on the death marches. They were the victims of abuse, humiliation, forced labor, starvation, neglect, and in some cases, even medical experimentation. Most of them lost their loved ones and were robbed of their childhood,” Yad Vashem writes in the text accompanying the exhibition.
Jan 27, 2021
Just in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Palestinian Authority taught TV viewers that the Holocaust was the price the Jews paid for their evil behavior.
Just in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Palestinian Authority (PA) stressed and repeated its anti-Semitic views on Jews. In a program on official PA TV, the host taught viewers that the Holocaust was the price the Jews paid for their evil behavior – their “conspiracies and wickedness”:
The PA TV program “From the Israeli Archive” is currently broadcasting parts of an Israeli documentary series from 1981,
Pillar of Fire, misinterpreting – and even mistranslating - the original narration so it presents a Palestinian and even anti-Semitic perspective. The message that Jews’ payment for their “wickedness” was the Holocaust was the PA TV host’s introduction to a segment from an episode about the 1930s and Nazism’