In our histoPOD podcast we speak to international experts to learn how the Holocaust is remembered in different countries. How has commemoration of the Holocaust developed over time? Who was involved in looking back and analysing the past? And what does critical engagement with the Holocaust mean for the countries’ own history? Have a listen! histoPOD is a podcast from histoCON, the history festival organised by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb).
Since 2007, learning about the Holocaust has been part of the South African curriculum. Many activists who fought against apartheid also dealt with the Holocaust. In this episode of histoPOD, we speak to Tali Nates, founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and...
Published 01/13/22
2021 marked eighty years since Operation Barbarossa – the codename for the German invasion of the Soviet Union – and, in many views, the outbreak of the genocidal phase of the Holocaust, which got underway in the Baltics and beyond starting in June 1941. In this edition we speak to Dovid Katz, a...
Published 01/13/22
Anti-Jewish legislation existed in Hungary even before the outbreak of the Second World War. What role did Hungary play in the Second World War? How did the culture of Holocaust remembrance develop over time? These are the topics we are discussing with Andrea Petö, Professor at the Central...
Published 06/18/21