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But the vast majority of the people responsible for these things were infinitely more ordinary and more normal than that.” What IS the truth about the 'manopause'? As Robbie Williams blames declining testosterone for killing his libido and triggering insomnia, doctors say disputed phenomenon IS real but argue term is hugely 'misleading' JC] I think that's so powerful for students, and for teachers, to really start to think about in terms of yeah that pre-war Jewish life, and how you might use imagery to invoke that richness and diversity that you're talking about. I think the other thing which is really important is that we've tried really hard to create an environment in which people feel empowered to ask questions. I think sometimes with a subject like the Holocaust, because it looms in the way that it does in contemporary culture - and, you know, for a lot of really good and perfectly legitimate reasons - but it means that people somehow feel as if they can't ask questions. In good faith, not you know, in good faith about some of the issues, and to be confident to say, but you know, I don't understand that, or how did that happen, or why did they do that, or how they're thinking, and that's critical. So in the new galleries, we've tried to move beyond the idea that, you know, respectful silence is the only legitimate or possible response. And I think it's really particularly important that students feel confident to be able to ask the questions that arise, because it does generate questions, because it is so challenging, it is so difficult, and it is something which is, you know, engenders this sort of sense of “I don't get it, how did you do this? How did they do this? Why did they respond like that? I don't know why this person did that to that person”. And I think it's really important that people can ask this thing, so that's something we've tried really hard to do in the galleries as well. My mother was amazed after the war when her cousin gave her this postcard that her sister even knew the word because I don’t come from an observant family,” Mrs Clarke told the JC. “But goodness knows what one can dredge up from the subconscious if you have to. They may have common elements but each story is unique.”

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Rishi Sunak and US Vice President Kamala Harris meet and agree on Israel's right to defend itself - and vow to get more aid into GazaAnd I suppose, I would say that's why coming to, you know, the galleries can be a really useful part of that, because I can explain that to you, and I can kind of conceptualize a little, and to a certain extent intellectualize it, but being in the space you experience it. You don't experience what the people who made it experienced, but the experience of standing in the space and seeing this thing has a sort of an immediacy, and a kind of an affective resonance which is not replicable in anything else that we do. It's why people come to galleries, because we still they're not experiences anymore, you know, we don't talk about, we don't talk about the idea that you retake the steps of somebody in these moments in time, because you don't, you can't do that, that's an absurd claim to make. But nevertheless, they are experiential spaces; we feel in them and by feeling, our responses to the content around us changes, and we think about things differently. And thinking about things differently and dynamically is so critical in terms of advancing our knowledge and our understanding. So that's what we try to do in the galleries, and I think that just appreciating that, appreciating that none of these things will ever provide a completely total version of this, and even just that simple fact is really, you know, just being clear about that with students and everybody. To say nobody, even you know the world's leading scholars, nobody has read everything, nobody knows everything, nobody can even hope to get anywhere near that, but that's okay. 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.

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Kate Phillips, Director of Unscripted, says: “Holocaust Memorial Day is an important moment to stop and reflect on a period in our history which showed both the worst, and the best, of the human spirit. 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.” The Imperial War Mus 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).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.” Mr Bulgin added that in documenting the “visceral, bloody and barbaric” nature of the Shoah, the IWM had wanted to show the wider context. “People have a sense of the Holocaust being around camps. It also happened to people in environments familiar to them.” The Imperial War Museum’s (IWM) previous Holocaust exhibition, open between 2000 and 2020, took visitors inside a different world: a dark, sealed-in space where a narrow passageway led them inexorably downwards towards the horror that awaited. The exhibition is remembered by many for powerfully conveying the devastation of the genocide.

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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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The difficulties facing those attempting to start afresh elsewhere are also given prominence — for example, the UK interning refugees as “enemy aliens”. The emotional cry of murdered Yousef Makki’s sister to her late mother: 'I kept my promise mum... It took four years but now everyone knows your darling boy was NOT to blame for his own death' The Holocaust areas alone contain some 2,000 objects and 4,000 images. Mr Bulgin said the museum team had wanted to accurately depict “the massive diversity and plurality of Jewish life pre-war”. And also to show what it means to be persecuted — and to persecute — and to demonstrate that the Nazi atrocities were “done by people to people”. 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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So, for example we use footage from one family, called the Bed family, which is a Dutch Jewish family he went on holiday in the years before the war, and we showed their entire holiday film, unedited on its own screen within the opening space, because in watching the way that they engaged with this, there is something in their existence. You know, they were obviously from the Netherlands and they, their way of life probably would be quite familiar to a lot of us, and so, you know, they are quite close. And we see, we see this really interesting and important dimension to their film where they move the camera around and we become really aware of the part the camera plays in the way that they're sort of constructing their relationship to it and their experience of each other and the holiday, and it's a really kind of familiar way of framing experience. That they, you know, they keep on grabbing the camera off each other and it shakes as one of them drops in and out of shot, and they are living lives completely unmediated by what's to come. In that, in that space in the galleries we don't, we don't say what that is. We do later on in the galleries, and what happened is they were all deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and none of them, none of them survived. And it's really hard, it's really tough watching that film knowing that, but you really do get a sense of people who perfectly reasonably living lives, unencumbered by what's to happen, unencumbered by narratives of persecutions.

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JB: "The Nazis enacted persecution of Jews in a few different ways. First of all they used kind of the formal structures of laws and rules and restrictions, and they also looked for ways in which the population could be coerced into supporting anti-Jewish thinking and anti-Jewish policy. They wanted to create what they call a volksgemeinschaft, a national community of people who thought in the same way and of course it became increasingly clear within this volksgemeinschaft for the people who didn't fit into it there was really no place at all. Through testimonies and artefacts, it would aim to take victims out of victimhood, Bulgin added, to see them as “people who were born, who were living their lives, and the interruption of those lives shouldn’t be the only thing that defines them”. From the beginning of 1942 these massacres were consolidated into a programme of co-ordinated annihilation. Millions of Jews were deported from ghettos or holding camps to be killed. Most were sent to a small number of purpose-built killing centres called death camps, but as the war developed, thousands more were sent to concentration camps to be worked to death in service of Germany’s deteriorating war effort. This Nazis were central to this process, but they did not act alone and relied on the support and complicity of hundreds of thousands of people across Europe. JC] And actually I would encourage any teacher to speak to their students about exactly that: you know, are we going to give this degree of credibility when it is something that the Nazis used to describe something? And actually that's a really fantastic debate or discussion that you could have in a classroom, in terms of what terminology we're using, how we're thinking about language, and importantly how we're being careful about the language that we use.