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Created by IWM experts, leading creative agency Friday Sundae Studio and award-winning writer Stef Smith, the programme uses ambitious digital technology, IWM collections and storytelling to encourage reflection, discussion and understanding of the Holocaust, creating a sensitive narrative that will support students learning about this difficult history. I want the coming generation to remember our times,” it reads. “I don’t know my fate. I don’t know if I will be able to tell you what happened later.” On entering the new Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London (IWM), visitors will see a 1942 quote from Nachum Grzywacz. In an early display, Hitler and other Nazi leaders loom large in pre-1933 images: “We wanted to show them before the men they became,” Mr Bulgin explained. People who are aware of the language used by the Nazis to dehumanise vulnerable minorities are rightly sensitive about seeing similar terms and divisions being encouraged and normalised in current contexts.

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IWM’s Second World War and Holocaust Partnership Programme (SWWHPP) was established to collaborate with cultural partners across the UK and engage new audiences in projects which explore local Second World War and Holocaust collections and themes within the national context.The Second World War Galleries are formed of six individual spaces which tell the story of the conflict chronologically, exploring its global scale and impact upon people and communities. In How the Holocaust Began on BBC Two and iPlayer, historian James Bulgin uncovers the lost origins of the Holocaust following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass shootings, collaboration and experimentation that led to the Final Solution. The difficulties facing those attempting to start afresh elsewhere are also given prominence — for example, the UK interning refugees as “enemy aliens”. Uncovering this story is historian James Bulgin. James created the Holocaust galleries at the Imperial War Museum; now he examines a chapter of the Holocaust that has been left largely unexplored for more than 80 years.

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But the vast majority of the people responsible for these things were infinitely more ordinary and more normal than that.”Episode 3 – The Homeless, Tempest- Tossed (1942-) The first reports of the killing reach the United States. A group of dedicated government officials establish the War Refugee Board to finance and support rescue operations. As the Allies advance, soldiers uncover mass graves and liberate German concentration camps, revealing the sheer scale and horror of the Holocaust. The danger of its reverberations soon become apparent. James Bulgin (Image: BBC/Caravan Media/Benjamin Holgate) By showing these documentaries, we hope to shine a light on history’s darkest days and ensure that the stories of those whose lives were lost in the Holocaust are never forgotten. — Kate Phillips, Director of Unscripted The challenge had been to “get beyond some of the clichés and think about how catastrophic the loss remains — and how senseless it was”. First broadcast: Mon 23 rd Jan 2023, 21:00on BBC Two England Latest broadcast: Fri 27 th Jan 2023, 23:05on BBC Two Wales HD Announcements placed in the personal columns of The Times under “married couples and manservants” included: “Couple, middle-aged, husband former higher clerk of a banking house, wife very good cook… refugees from Austria [still abroad], with excellent character, seek post.”

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Total War : A People’s History of the Second World Warby IWM curators Kate Clements, Paul Cornish and Vikki Hawkins is an innovative illustrated history of the Second World War, told with the help of personal stories from across the globe. Total War is published by Thames & Hudson in partnership with IWM. Taking a robust view of perpetrators, it will say: “The men – and women – who did this, they weren’t unaware of what they were doing,” said the lead historian on the project, James Bulgin.Visitors to the galleries don’t meet Anita again until much later, when her experiences of Auschwitz-Birkenau are told in the section about slave labour in concentration camps. Anita’s story is told through her red jumper. Students that chose Anita’s story in the first room of the galleries are directed to find her jumper. They learn that Anita was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau at the age of 18, where she was recruited into the women’s orchestra at the camp as the cellist. She was forced to play upbeat marches as prisoners walked in procession to and from work and for the SS. Anita’s role in the orchestra meant that she was given extra bread. She exchanged some of this bread for the jumper now on display and wore it both day and night to protect herself against the harsh winter – hidden underneath her camp uniform. She continued to wear it in Bergen-Belsen from where she was liberated in April 1945. There is deliberately no indication of what became of the author (head of content James Bulgin tells the JC that Grzywacz died during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising). The BBC is showing three new documentaries this month to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January.

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The emphasis will be on the contemporary, with testimonies only from the time, to illustrate how events were perceived as they unfolded. The word Holocaust is not used, as it was applied post-genocide.Poppy Cooper, the head of projects at Imperial War Museums, said: “The academic thinking about the Holocaust has moved on significantly in 20 years. Among several objects on display in the Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries are Eva Wohl's last exchange of Red Cross telegrams with her father. Leonard and Clara sadly did not move across to Britain to be with their daughters and were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz in 1943. The new galleries explore three core themes of persecution, looking at the global situation at the end of the First World War; escalation, identifying how violence towards Jewish people and communities developed through the 1930s; and annihilation, examining how Nazi policy crosses the threshold into wide-scale state-sponsored murder in the heart of twentieth century Europe. A new Imperial War Museums gallery will challenge visitors to “beware the Holocaust because you could have been a perpetrator”. The Holocaust has become defined by centralised “tropes” – Auschwitz, trains, people being selected left and right on ramps, anonymous piles of shoes. Yet the majority of those murdered weren’t selected like that, except at Auschwitz. It happened because of European rail networks, collaboration between different people and organisations and businesses across Europe working together, Bulgin added.