Aktion T4, the Nazi campaign to 'euthanise' all those with physical and mental disabilities; and the terrible relevance of "All Our Children" today.

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The episode will be out shortly, but in the meantime you can catch up on the last episode where Alex and I discuss Dmitry Glukhovsky’s "The White Factory" (Spotify link below).

#theatre #Holocaust #history #Lodz #LUOTD

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Forced to confront his experiences in the Łódź Ghetto, Yosef once again finds himself caught between seemingly impossible choices.

Content warning: References to s*icide & SA against women and children.

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Image: The Łódź Ghetto / Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

We're proud, excited and a wee bit nervous to announce that the first episode of "Lights Up on the Dark: The Holocaust Onstage" is out this coming Monday, 3rd February on Spotify!
Stay tuned for more details on Monday's episode and future episodes, including our first guest... 😁

Of course! 🙂

...in that exact moment, and that no two in-person visits will be/are ever the same. But having said all that, the digital tours enable a level of exploration and engagement that I wish I'd been able to access at school! 🙂

...(anyone who's walked the railway line at Birkenau will know what I mean). I've been with different people who've all said "Oh, you can't appreciate the scale of it until you're actually here." And there's also something about the immediacy of a shared experience with other people...

It's definitely the immediacy, I think - online we're experiencing it through a screen, and so in one sense it's inherently immediate as we can get to anywhere in the camp within moments. However, in this way the site stays the 'same.' Also, there's something about the true sense of scale...

That's a great question! The one that immediately springs to mind are the digital tours of the camps, like @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social and @dachaumemorial.bsky.social - mainly because they enable people to access the sites who otherwise might not be able to...

**screams in T1 diabetic**
(I know insulin hadn't been discovered then, but still alllllllll the hell no)

Great name! 😉