Controversial WWII museum exhibit highlights “the bad sides of history”
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
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January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was designated as such by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 to mark the date when the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated sixty years prior. But while nations around the world will set aside time today to remember those who died, the proper form of that remembrance remains a matter of some debate. And, as one museum learned, people are seldom shy when they feel you are not honoring that memory well.
Author: Ryan Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, January the 27th, 2023. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins |
| 0:11.1 | narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Dennison. January 27th is International Holocaust |
| 0:17.9 | Remembrance Day. It was designated as such by the United Nations General |
| 0:22.5 | Assembly in 2005 to mark the date when the Auschwitz-Burkenau concentration camp was liberated 60 years |
| 0:30.0 | prior. The hope is that the Day of Remembrance can commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime, |
| 0:36.3 | promote education about the Holocaust, and inspire people to work to prevent further genocide. |
| 0:42.3 | But while nations around the world will set aside time today to remember those who died, the proper form of that remembrance remains a matter of some debate. |
| 0:51.3 | And as those in charge of the Versace Museum, Amsterdam's Resistance Museum, |
| 0:56.6 | have learned recently, some can be very vocal when they believe the memory of those who passed |
| 1:02.2 | has not been honored correctly. The Resistance Museum has existed in Amsterdam. The displays |
| 1:07.7 | focused on highlighting the efforts made by the Dutch resistance movement |
| 1:11.6 | to subvert the Germans across the five years they occupied the Netherlands. |
| 1:16.6 | However, the museum's new offering represents a slightly different approach. |
| 1:21.6 | The new exhibit highlights the role that 100 individuals played in the Netherlands during World War II. |
| 1:28.3 | But, whereas such exhibits often traditionally focused on people who resisted the Nazi occupation, |
| 1:34.5 | the museum has chosen to feature those who collaborated with the Germans as well. |
| 1:39.7 | Lisbeth Vanderhorst, the museum's director, told reporters, we are offering new perspectives a different emphasis. |
| 1:48.0 | By showing the choices these people made to collaborate, |
| 1:51.0 | you highlight how courageous it was to choose to resist. |
| 1:55.0 | But, as Nina Siegel writes, not everyone sees it that way. |
| 2:00.0 | And given that nearly 75% of Dutch Jews were |
| 2:03.9 | deported and murdered by the Nazis during the war, by far the largest percentage in Western |
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