Remembering Auschwitz

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces, talks to Rana Mitter about her 1996 novel. Jewish Chronicle Literary Editor and author Gerald Jacobs, and historian and documentary maker Laurence Rees, join Rana for a discussion on the way fiction and history on TV and in books have represented the Holocaust. Dr Roland Clark from the University of Liverpool shares his research in the fascist past of Romania, and Rana speaks to Professor Anna Prazmowska of the London School of Economics about recent Polish history. Stephen Smith discusses the use of videos to educate children in the work he does as Director of the USC Shoah Foundation.

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0:39.4	I'm Rana Mitter.
0:40.5	On this episode, we'll be marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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1:59.8	On the 27th of January, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
2:06.6	The Second World War ended three quarters of a century ago. Fewer survivors remain each year.
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