The research has so far indicated that educators and museum curators have strived to adapt content to be better absorbed via digital means and in so doing provided the motivation for relevant audiences to log on. Ongoing research is compiling data and feedback from 32 Holocaust museums and monuments in nine different countries with the goal of better understanding which digital platforms have been used most effectively and were best received. “While we have already been experiencing a transition where forms of social media and digital content have been increasingly recognized as legitimate expressions of commemoration, the severe restrictions of Corona both accelerated this process but also created a far more accepting culture for the role these media must play.” “The onset of this global crisis has impacted our lives in many ways and indeed Holocaust remembrance is no exception,” Dr. The transition was described by the author as particularly important because prior to Corona, many memorials objected to such means of communication out of fear that it would “commercialize” or even distort legitimate Holocaust memory.
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Included have been a series of memory related hashtags in use on Twitter and Facebook, “live” Instagram stories from memorial sites and concentration camps, as well as Zoom discussions with Holocaust survivors across the globe.
Ebbrecht-Hartmann published in “Media, Culture and Society” a paper that revealed how educators have successfully leveraged new forms of Holocaust remembrance using social media tools. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and research student Tom Divon of the Hebrew University Communication and Journalism Department, examined the many ways individual museums and memorial sites have adapted their programs over the past year.Īs part of the research, Dr. With the goal of proposing relevant solutions to this challenge, Dr. This year, most of those events will be impossible for any sizable gathering of people due to COVID-19. The day marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is ordinarily commemorated with hundreds of individual memorial events across the globe.
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