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Inside the Epicenter of the Horror – Photographs of the Sonderkommando
Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They show a completely different perspective, which makes them unique when dealing with visual material of the Holocaust and the Holocaust as a topic itself. They were taken inside the epicenter of the horror, from which no other visual material exists. They were taken clandestinely at the height of the Final Solution... Continue reading
Interview with Shulamit Imber, Pedagogical Director of the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem
How would you say that our understanding of what constitutes resistance has changed over time? I would say that in the past there was a debate about what we call resistance. There were many years when the Israeli society focused on armed resistance; it was something with which the society could more easily identify. The gap between the Diaspora and Israeli society led to a kind of thinking that the fighters were the group that Israelis could identify themselves with. When I was young we talked... Continue reading
