Trauma in Digital Spaces: The Future of Holocaust Remembrance

Date: September 21st, 2022
Duration: 58m:52s

What are the complexities of remembering the Holocaust through contemporary technologies? How can digital spaces facilitate compassionate responses to trauma and loss? Dr. Rachel Baum, Deputy Director of the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, looks at the themes of the year – trauma, remembrance, and compassion – through contemporary technologies (including holograms of Holocaust survivors and virtual reality experiences of memorial sites).

This program is part of the 2022-23 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium, “Trauma, Remembrance and Compassion” and is aligned with the KHC’s original exhibition, “The Concentration Camps: Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration and Genocide” (https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/camps/). The event was organized by the KHC at Queensborough Community College and was co-sponsored by the Sam & Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center; the Ray Wolpow Institute at Western Washington University; the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu

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