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Holocaust history

Liza Weber, Rachel Pistol and Barbara Warnock join Anne McElvoy for a discussion about discovering and preserving the stories of the Holocaust.

Historians continue to unearth documents, interpret new records accounts and reinterpret old ones in their light. In doing so they expand our understanding of unfolding anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Anne McElvoy speaks to Barbara Warnock the senior curator of the Wiener Holocaust Library, the world's oldest Holocaust research institution as it marks its 90th anniversary this year. Rachel Pistol explores the emerging stories of the Jewish men interned in Britain during the Second World War. We hear from Liza Weber about what we can learn from the Jewish art looted by the Nazis. And, Daniel Lee tells us about the lives of resisters Missak and M茅lin茅e Manouchian whose courage will be honoured in Paris this month.

Dr Rachel Pistol is a digital historian and National Coordinator of European Holocaust Research Infrastructure. She is also the Historical Advisor for World Jewish Relief
Dr Barbara Warnock of the Wiener Holocaust Library has curated its 90th anniversary exhibition
Dr Liza Weber, University of Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies
Dr Daniel Lee is a 麻豆社 AHRC New Generation Thinker and a Reader in Modern French History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Producer: Ruth Watts

You can find previous episodes marking Holocaust Memorial Day with discussions about Nazis, Holocaust, Time and Memory with Richard J Evans, Jane Caplan, David Cesarani, Andre Singer and Eva Hoffman; Romani history, Portuguese Jewish experiences and a big academic literature research project in the 2023 episode hearing from Victoria Biggs, Richard Zimmler, Stuart Taberner and Daniel Lee; and episodes looking at Linda Grant and Jewish history; links between Judaism and Christianity, the writing of Betty Miller and Marghanita Laski; Jewish history, jokes and contemporary identity with Simon Schama and Devorah Baum.

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Thu 25 Jan 2024 22:00

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  • Thu 25 Jan 2024 22:00

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