Thursday 18th November 6:00 – 7:00pm
For the second event in our series, we are excited to announce that BAHS Postgraduate Representatives Barnabas Balint (University of Oxford) and Charlie Knight (University of Southampton) will be joined by James Bulgin (RHUL), Head of Content for the IWM Holocaust and Second World War Galleries, to discuss the new Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum.
These galleries bring unseen objects, untold stories and unheard voices together. They use the most up-to-date research and technology to help visitors understand the most devastating conflict in human history and the genocide that became known as the Holocaust.
Alongside the new galleries, world-class learning and event suites enable visitors to explore this defining period of the 20th century beyond the galleries, making use of new learning resources and programmes to understand how the conflict shaped the world we all live in today.
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.
By robustly interrogating the identity of the perpetrators, the galleries explain who was responsible for these crimes, what motivated them and how ordinary they often were in every other way.
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