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. 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. In the days after the pogrom, or Kristallnacht, about 30,000 Jewish men were marched off to concentration camps, for the first time in the history of the concentration camps the majority of the populations were Jews. I think the first thing to say is that it is complicated, it is challenging, and it is something which is constantly under review.

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So it only takes six weeks for the Einsatzgruppen to move from shooting military-age men to shooting women and children. The footage was filmed by David Kurtz and made available courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. And what happened in Vienna at that stage certainly emboldened the Nazis to begin to radicalize their preconceptions about what could be done to Jewish people, and what people would tolerate. Lauren Wilmott: "So this is a tile or part of a tile from one of the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp.And these DP camps become the homes of the people who live within them for years, some of them are in the sites of former concentration camps, others are not, and they become places where people start to rebuild their lives and makeconnections with the few people that they can find who are left alive, but of course that's a massive challenge for these individuals because what they'd experienced is more than a lot ofpeople can bear, and they know that whatever the years in front of them hold it's going to bea very, very, very different reality to the one that they'd left before the Second World War. The day that Anita decided to pick up a cello for the first time, the day that she exchanged her extra bread for a jumper and the day she decided to donate her jumper to IWM, have all led to us being able to engage students with her story in The Holocaust Galleries. That's not what the program of mass violence in November 1938 was about; it was about violence and threat and intimidation to people.

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That safe space for teachers to bring their students, wherein they can ask questions, they can have those genuine encounters with objects in the past. That doesn't help any of any of us to understand the specificities of who the Nazis were persecuting, and why they were doing it. The genocide now known as the Holocaust was the state-sponsored mass murder of six million Jewish men, women and children.As the Allies advance, soldiers uncover mass graves and liberate German concentration camps, revealing the sheer scale and horror of the Holocaust. To hide all traces of what had happened at Treblinka, the Nazis demolished the camp and turned it into a farm.

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At first, they used antisemitic legislation and restrictions alongside vicious propaganda to create a culture of segregation and hostility.

But in other communities it might be that the student needs a very different, or it might be that the purpose of the pedagogy is different again. But I do think it's an interesting thing for educators to have a think about: if you're defining the Holocaust as a genocide, how might you then talk about that with your students, perhaps in other contexts where genocides have taken place? It is, you know, I think, in its own way, kind of really energizing and I think, I would hope that's something which teachers can find to kind of inspire students as they engage with, not just this subject but for all of history really. Leibish and his brother Joseph were likely selected, the rest of his family continued on to Auschwitz where they were murdered in the gas chambers on arrival. 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.

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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. Mobile execution squads known as Einsatzgruppen made up of Nazis and supported by local collaborators operated behind the advancing German line. JB] Yeah exactly, I mean because I think when you look at this, any picture, you know, the first question is always, you know, who took this and why?This network had started in the early years of the regime to target all of those the Nazis consideredenemies of the state, including communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexual men. Storyville: Three Minutes: A Lengthening is a 1 x 70 film for BBC Four and iPlayer made by Family Affair Films. JC] I think though, as I mentioned, the issue of images for educators is a two-pronged one, wherein we've spoken about the pre-war Jewish life and the fact that images can really help us in, in snapshots invoke some of that really important rich culture.