A London museum wants to challenge common perceptions of the Holocaust
New galleries due to open in London’s Imperial War Museum later this year will challenge commonly held views about the Holocaust, with a focus on the “ordinary” people who carried out the atrocity.
The Second World War and Holocaust Galleries will explore themes of persecution, escalation, the development of violence toward Jewish people, and the rise in tensions that followed World War I.
“The Holocaust looms large in contemporary culture but the version of it that looms large isn’t necessarily the historic occurrence that was the Holocaust, it’s a kind-of constructed, cultural re-imagining of it,” historian James Bulgin, in charge of the new Holocaust Galleries’ content, told CNN.
Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas
Dana Hansen
Oscar of Between is a dynamic work of startling insight.
Betsy Warland’s latest book, one of the first titles published by Dagger Editions, Caitlin Press’s new imprint for queer women writers, is a cross-genre work of lyrical prose that explores through candid, fragmentary reflections spanning several years and geographical locations, the condition of being a “
person of between.” It also, importantly, touches on the experience of being a writer whose work defies conventional categories: “What to do when there is no category? The subterranean connection between category and camouflage, without category understanding askew, even improbable: no box, no camo, no cigar.”
Even after 141 years and two World Wars, it remains one of the most celebrated actions in British military history.
Thanks in no small part to the 1964 classic film, Zulu starring Stanley Baker and a young, plummy-toned Michael Caine the Battle of Rorke’s Drift has become a byword for standing firm in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Military cadets still study the day, in January 1879, when a small South African mission station turned supply depot, manned by 135 British soldiers a quarter of them sick and bedridden came under attack from 4,000 Zulu warriors.
Just hours before, King Cetshwayo’s regiments, or impis, had wiped out an entire British column of 1,500 men at nearby Isandlwana. Now, with dusk approaching, the Zulus were heading for Rorke’s Drift.