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Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton

The Holocaust: how ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses

This year is the 80th anniversary of the Soviet army’s liberation of Auschwitz, the huge and complex concentration and death camp in which one million Jews were murdered.

The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is For a Better Future, a message of hope that is much needed in this extremely troubling world, where the far right is gaining power inside and outside of Europe.

An issue which has troubled those, like myself, who are involved with Holocaust education and memorialisation for some time is what to do when the survivor generation passes on.

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