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A girl's Holocaust diary, now via Instagram. Strange.
Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation
“The memory of the Holocaust outside of Israel is disappearing,” Mati Kochavi said in an interview. “We thought, let’s do something really disruptive. We found the journal and said, ‘Let’s assume that instead of pen and paper Eva had a smartphone and documented what was happening to her.’ So we brought a smartphone to 1944.”
Interesting, but I don't think memory of the Holocaust is disappearing - continuous efforts over the last fifty years have pretty well embedded it into even casual understanding of 20th century history.
I do think it is becoming one of many events understood as part of that period, and don't necessarily think it deserves special consideration over, say, WWI and WWII as wholes, Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Dresden/Berlin/Tokyo as discrete events and a collective horror, Vietnam and Afghanistan... Never forget, yes. Never again, if we are to call ourselves civilized. But... completely exceptional? Maybe it's the loss of that special status that's bothering some.
And the return of nationalism and bigotry across eastern Europe... just proves that even nukes, bombing cultures back to the stone age and the internet aren't enough to erase the seeds of millennia of prejudice. We need to view all this as a matrix and a continuum, not as one exceptional - even if exceptionally horrifying - event.
Interesting, but I don't think memory of the Holocaust is disappearing - continuous efforts over the last fifty years have pretty well embedded it into even casual understanding of 20th century history.
I do think it is becoming one of many events understood as part of that period, and don't necessarily think it deserves special consideration over, say, WWI and WWII as wholes, Hiroshima/Nagasaki/Dresden/Berlin/Tokyo as discrete events and a collective horror, Vietnam and Afghanistan... Never forget, yes. Never again, if we are to call ourselves civilized. But... completely exceptional? Maybe it's the loss of that special status that's bothering some.
And the return of nationalism and bigotry across eastern Europe... just proves that even nukes, bombing cultures back to the stone age and the internet aren't enough to erase the seeds of millennia of prejudice. We need to view all this as a matrix and a continuum, not as one exceptional - even if exceptionally horrifying - event.
I think he meant that living memory of the Holocaust is disappearing - as the victims are dying off.
I think he meant that living memory of the Holocaust is disappearing - as the victims are dying off.
Perhaps.
One of the most moving things I've learned in recent years is that there are young(er) people, mostly Israeli, who are "adopting" the concentration camp tattoo of survivors. They have an exact replica tattooed on themselves.
I think he meant that living memory of the Holocaust is disappearing - as the victims are dying off.
In what way is the Holocaust any different from any other event which through natural attrition, passes out of living memory?
I attribute most of my personal qualities to being raised by Depression-era parents. What do we need to do to restore the Great Depression and Dust Bowl to living memory?
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