Next, Ms Branco presented ‘Beyond Obliviousness’, a discussion of memory and forgetting in connection to the Holocaust. She discussed screening The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas with students in Portugal, who appeared uninterested in the film as they could not relate to the narrative or its events. She also commented on people viewing sites of genocide and atrocities as tourist attractions; the importance of connections and commonalities between people; and the anti-gypsy sentiment prevalent in parts of Portugal, symbolised through statues and pictures of frogs displayed in shop windows and doorways (as gypsies consider frogs a bad omen).