Using the collections held at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Master's students from the University of British Columbia wrote and edited a podcast series. This podcast series was written in collaboration with the VHEC and as a part of the HIST 595B course at UBC. Each episode is dedicated to a particular theme: Photography, Propaganda, and Correspondence. Bringing together survivor testimonies, and archival and museum works, the episodes are designed to provide listeners with insight into the VHEC collections and how these themes might be studied from a public history perspective.
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Using the collections held at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Master's students from the University of British Columbia wrote and edited a podcast series. This podcast series was written in collaboration with the VHEC and as a part of the HIST 595B course at UBC. Each episode is dedicated to a particular theme: Photography, Propaganda, and Correspondence. Bringing together survivor testimonies, and archival and museum works, the episodes are designed to provide listeners with insight into the VHEC collections and how these themes might be studied from a public history perspective.
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May 7, 2022
Tracing Existence: Bearing Witness, Love, and Loss in Holocaust Letters
<p>This episode, hosted by Maya Porebska-Smith, examines Holocaust correspondence. The aims of this podcast are to understand what correspondence is and how it might be used, and how the correspondence-related collection at the VHEC from before, during, and after the war, can be used to understand the Holocaust from a different perspective.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Further Reading</strong></p> <p>“Holocaust Victim's Story Brought to Life on Instagram in Bid to Engage Young People | CBC News.” CBCnews. CBC/Radio Canada, April 30, 2019. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/instagram-holocaust-remembrance-israel-1.5116958.">https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/instagram-holocaust-remembrance-israel-1.5116958. </a></p> <p>Horn, Dara. “Becoming Anne Frank.” Smithsonian Magazine. November 2018. Accessed 14 October 2021. <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/becoming-anne-frank-180970542/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/becoming-anne-frank-180970542/</a>.</p> <p>Shulman, Robin. “How an Astonishing Holocaust Diary Resurfaced in America.” Smithsonian Magazine. November 2018. Accessed 14 October 2021. <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/astonishing-holocaust-diary-hidden-world-70-years-resurfaced-america-180970534/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/astonishing-holocaust-diary-hidden-world-70-years-resurfaced-america-180970534/</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Archival Sources</strong></p> <p>Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Museum Work: Letter from Elspeth Cherniavsky to her mother [May 29, 1938] [7588]. Accessed November 11, 2021. https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/9344.</p> <p>Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Museum Work: Pre-deportation postcard from Hungary [3311]. Accessed November 11, 2021. https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/3443.</p> <p>Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Survivor testimony: Daniel W. Testimony 1984 [199]. Accessed November 11, 2021. https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/201.</p> <p>Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Archival Item: [report regarding the fate of relatives] [7177]. Accessed November 11, 2021. https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/8798.</p> <p>Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Archival Item: [correspondence to family remembering their babushka] [7178]. Accessed November 11, 2021. https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/8799.</p> <p>Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Museum Work: Antisemitic Postcard [7443]. Accessed November 11, 2021. https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/9076.</p>
May 7, 2022
Holocaust Photography: From Creation to Donation
<p>This episode, hosted by Lily Hart, examines Holocaust photography and the ways in which photographs of the Holocaust are taken, collected, preserved, used, and donated.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Further Reading:</strong></p> <p>Hirsch, Marianne. "Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory." The Yale Journal of Criticism 14, no. 1 (2001): 5-37. <a href="http://doi.org/10.1353/yale.2001.0008">doi:10.1353/yale.2001.0008</a>.</p> <p>Hirsch, Marianne. Postmemory.net. https://www.postmemory.net</p> <p>Magilow, Daniel. Holocaust Photography. United States Holocaust Museum, 26 August 2020. Youtube. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_PKiC0nSE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_PKiC0nSE</a></p> <p>Morrow, Paul. "Is it ethical to show Holocaust images?" The Conversation, 21 January 2021. <a href="https://theconversation.com/is-it-ethical-to-show-holocaust-images-128846">https://theconversation.com/is-it-ethical-to-show-holocaust-images-128846</a></p> <p>Eisenhower Asks Congress and Press to Witness Nazi Horrors. <a href="https://newspapers.ushmm.org/events/eisenhower-asks-congress-and-press-to-witness-nazi-horrors">https://newspapers.ushmm.org/events/eisenhower-asks-congress-and-press-to-witness-nazi-horrors</a></p> <p>Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale. (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2011).</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Archival Sources:</strong></p> <p>Else D. testimony 1983 [video recording’ 1h 51m 17.0s <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/1249">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/1249 </a></p> <p>Louise S. testimony 1996 [video recording]. 3h 3m 0.0s. <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/443">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/443</a></p> <p>Manfred Carsch oral history 1998 [sound recording]. 1h 55m 2.0s <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/1295">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/1295</a></p> <p>Stanley W. testimony 1990 [video recording]. 1h 22m 3.0s. <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/1224">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/1224</a></p> <p><br></p>
May 7, 2022
Understanding the Effects of Propaganda: A Personal, Public and Systemic Analysis
<p>This episode, hosted by Carmen Watson, explores the use of propaganda during the Holocaust. </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Further Reading:</strong></p> <p>Fraser, John. “Propaganda on the Picture Postcard.” Oxford Art Journal 3, no. 2 (1980): 39–47.</p> <p>Giles, Geoffrey J. “Popular Education and New Media: the Cigarette Card in Germany.” Paedagogica Historica 36 no. 1 (2000), 448-469.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Archival Sources:</strong></p> <p>Jannushka J. testimony 1995 [video recording]. (1h 44m). <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/492">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/492</a></p> <p>Cigarette cards, VHEC.Adolf Hitler:bilder aus dem leben des führers. RBSC 943.086 H67a. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Vancouver, BC. <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/3848">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/objects/3848</a>.</p> <p>Antisemitic exhibit postcard, VHEC. “Der ewige Jude.” Identifier: 2016.003.001. Part of: Peter N. Moogk Second World War history collection. RA020. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Vancouver, BC. <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/collections/595">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/collections/595</a></p> <p>Hilary and Harrison Brown collection. RA019. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Vancouver, BC. <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/collections/579">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/collections/579</a>.</p> <p>Holocaust-era serials collection. RA037. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Vancouver, BC. <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/collections/752">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/collections/752</a></p> <p>Kit Krieger antisemitic literature collection. RA054. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: Vancouver, BC. <a href="https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/collections/875">https://collections.vhec.org/Detail/collections/875</a></p> <p><br></p>
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