But in truth, all sense of scale is lost when imagining the implications of the Nazis’ genocidal politics, while the human psyche is overwhelmed by the implication of such murderous intent to humanity itself. By showing these documentaries, we hope to shine a light on history’s darkest days and ensure that the stories of those whose lives were lost in the Holocaust are never forgotten. The genocide now known as the Holocaust was the state-sponsored mass murder of six million Jewish men, women and children.

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The group of refugees arrived from Prague airport on Stirling bombers, touching down at the aerodrome at Crosby on Eden in Cumberland, where they began their long recuperation. That there's a tendency within Holocaust narratives to remove agency from Jewish people and Jewish individuals and communities, and to somehow make them completely sublimated within a kind of a perpetrator defined narrative, and to say: these people don't have their own chronology, their only chronology in this narrative is the chronology which the Nazis imposed upon them. I think one of the things that teachers really struggle with in difficult and complicated histories is the use of emotive language, particularly mindful of the fact that they're working with young people, they're working with people who, you know, may be experiencing a lot of things going on.The events that followed would lead to the Nazis’ ultimate plan for the extermination of Europe’s Jews.

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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. On 9-10 November 1938, unprecedented riots took place across Germany and Austria targeting Jewish people.The campnetwork grew rapidly as the war developed and the Nazis' need for additional labour to support the crumbling war effort became increasingly acute. So you know, one of the things which we've tried really hard for example to move beyond in the galleries is the idea that the Holocaust is somehow just about industrialized genocide.