Apply for an EHRI/Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe Workshop: Jewish Heritage Records and Digital Humanities. 4-5 September 2018 I Location: King’s College London.
Making the 1993 drama Schindler’s List was traumatic for Steven Spielberg—but the director could always count on Robin Williams to make him laugh. At a 25th anniversary screening and panel about the film at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Oscar winner warmly reminisced about the late comedian, whom Spielberg befriended during the making of Hook, released two years before the Holocaust epic.
Education about the Holocaust and genocide can help to shape societies today, to prevent mass atrocities and to address persisting grievances and prejudice. In this light, UNESCO has published a Policy Guide on Education about the Holocaust and preventing genocide, informed by the Organization’s longstanding work in education about the Holocaust and genocide and Global Citizenship Education
No beautiful museum in the center of Jerusalem, no teams of dedicated scholars mining the scrolls for historical and spiritual information. And yet, the sacred texts that rose from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto remain largely silent and obscure. Indeed, to this day, almost no one knows about the Oyneg Shabes Archive or the remarkable man who created it, Emanuel Ringelblum.