How AI, gaming and virtual worlds are reshaping Holocaust remembrance

How AI, gaming and virtual worlds are reshaping Holocaust remembrance

“At the moment, we have an incredibly dispersed and diverse landscape of memory-making, and the more digital we get, the most diverse it gets,” Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab at the University of Sussex, told UN News. As Holocaust survivors age and first-hand testimony becomes rarer, educators, researchers and […]

‘We children saw things that no one should ever have to see’ Holocaust survivor tells the UN

Speaking in the General Assembly Hall alongside one of her great grandchildren, Mrs Lazan described her family’s journey from a ‘comfortable’ life in Hoya, northwest Germany, to a detention camp in the Netherlands – and in January 1944, internment in Bergen Belsen concentration camp. Mrs Lazan’s indomitable spirit in the face of the most inhumane […]

Remembering the Holocaust: ‘You are here because you choose hope over hate’

In his 10th Holocaust Remembrance Day address, Secretary-General António Guterres told survivors and their families gathered in the General Assembly Hall that honouring the dead “and the fight against the ancient poison of antisemitism – is not abstract, but personal”.  Every year on the day the concentration camps were liberated in 1945, the world unites […]