How To Remember The Holocaust

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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History, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Why should people remember the Holocaust? When did people start to commemorate the Holocaust? How do different countries around the world engage with Holocaust education? Listen to this exclusive extract from Waitman Wade Beorn and Alex Maws' talk from the latest We Have Ways Festival on the role and power of memory in Holocaust education. Start your free trial at ⁠⁠patreon.com/wehaveways and listen more festival talks, as well as other subscriber perks. Enjoy livestreams, early access to podcast episodes, ad-free listening, bonus episodes, and a weekly newsletter packed with book deals and behind-the-scenes insights. Members also get priority access and discounts to live events. A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan Assistant Producer: Alfie Norris Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: wehaveways@goalhanger.com Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
0:05.0	Sign up to our Patreon to receive bonus content, live streams and our weekly newsletter with money off books and museum visits as well.
0:13.1	Plus early access to all live show tickets.
0:16.2	That's patreon.com slash we have ways.
0:23.7	Hi there, it's Al Murray here, co-host of WW2Pod We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Did you miss out on our
0:31.5	incredible fifth weekend festival of Premium War Waffle in September? Perhaps you were there,
0:37.3	but couldn't get to every talk you wanted to hear.
0:39.7	Well, here at We Have Ways HQ, we are hard at work sorting out this FOMO problem,
0:46.0	putting up all the talks on our Patreon page in a collection just for subscribers.
0:51.4	We've just uploaded a fantastic array of talks from Saturday's briefing tent
0:55.3	with some of the world's most engaging historians on topics as diverse as SOE spies,
1:00.4	the end of the war in 1945, and men ogling their favourite tanks. Now is a great time to listen
1:06.1	to Waitman Wade Bourne and Alex Moore's powerful talk on the role and power of memory in Holocaust education
1:12.4	in the UK and internationally. So go to patreon.com slash we have ways to listen to the full
1:19.2	lecture. We're going to talk about something today that I think is really, really important,
1:26.6	really interesting. What we're going to do is we're going to talk about something today that I think is really, really important, really interesting.
1:31.4	What we're going to do is we're going to talk about Holocaust memory and remembrance.
1:37.3	How is it remembered, forgotten, presented in lots of different places?
1:43.7	So what the plan is, is that I'm going to talk for about 15 minutes or so about memory in general,
1:45.6	as well as a couple countries in Europe, how they have dealt with the Holocaust. And then my great guest or colleague here, Alex,
1:50.7	is going to talk about specifically the UK and how the UK has engaged with or failed to engage
1:57.8	with the Holocaust and Holocaust memory.
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