The music of resistance
When my Polish great-grandfather was arrested for defying the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, he took two things with him:…
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The sound of Auschwitz
A new documentary marking the 80th Holocaust Memorial Day tells the extraordinary story of the camp’s 15 orchestras.
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The films changing how we understand the Holocaust
The genocide has been endlessly churned through the Hollywood machine, resulting in melodrama, insensitivity and triteness. Three new films attempt…
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Who dares to “hijack” the Holocaust?
Jonathan Glazer’s abject Oscars speech for The Zone of Interest served to downplay the inhumanity his film so powerfully depicts.
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The Zone of Interest is a Holocaust film like no other
Jonathan Glazer’s astonishing adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel is the antidote to Schindler’s List.
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József Debreczeni’s letter from the land of the dead
A rediscovered memoir from an Auschwitz survivor offers powerful lessons for our own reckonings with the Holocaust.
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The case for a national Holocaust memorial
Detractors forget we won’t always be able to depend on the living testimony of Holocaust survivors.
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How to survive a nuclear holocaust
A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our own…
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Nick Robinson’s Media Notebook: On Berlin’s dark past, and in defence of the Today programme
Gazing down from the Reichstag’s glass dome, I was reminded that Britain is not alone in facing unstable politics.
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The moral corruption of Holocaust fiction
John Boyne’s shameless sequel to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas exemplifies a genre that expunges the genocide of its…
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Why is it so difficult to face grim realities?
Taking painful truths to heart often requires imagining the unimaginable.
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“A genocide against the Ukrainian people”: former Ukraine PM on Russia’s invasion
Volodymyr Groysman on what the West got wrong about Russia and how it can help Ukraine win its war.
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Banning books means some children learn about racism the hard way
From Maus to The Bluest Eye, US conservatives seem to want to shelter pupils for ever. It won't work.
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Myths and monstrosities of the Holocaust
Two histories of the Holocaust reveal the what we didn't know about the concentration camps.
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