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A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation

(New York Times) Isabel Kershner - In 70 short episodes, a British actress playing Eva Heyman takes followers along on her Holocaust journey: a happy bourgeois prewar existence interrupted by the Nazi invasion of her hometown in Hungary; her family's forced move into the cramped chaos of the ghetto; and the packed train that ultimately transports her to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp from which she never returns. "The memory of the Holocaust outside of Israel is disappearing," said co-creator Mati Kochavi. "So we brought a smartphone to 1944." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed the project. Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial center, said, "Yad Vashem believes that the use of social media platforms in order to commemorate the Holocaust is both legitimate and effective."
2019-05-03 00:00:00
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