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Free Thinking: Remembering Auschwitz

Remembering Auschwitz

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Rana Mitter marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation and talks to author Anne Michaels

Rana Mitter looks at how fiction and history on TV and in books have represented the Holocaust, and he interviews Canadian poet and writer Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces.

Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces, talks to Rana Mitter about her 1996 novel. Jewish Chronicle Literary Editor and author Gerald Jacobs, and historian and documentary maker Laurence Rees, join Rana for a discussion on the way fiction and history on TV and in books have represented the Holocaust.  Dr Roland Clark from the University of Liverpool shares his research in the fascist past of Romania, and Rana speaks to Professor Anna Prazmowska of the London School of Economics about recent Polish history. Stephen Smith discusses the use of videos to educate children in the work he does as the Director of the USC Shoah Foundation.

Roland Clark is the author of Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania. 
Laurence Rees is the author of books including: Auschwitz, Their Darkest Hour; the Holocaust A New History; and The War Of The Century. His television documentaries include: Touched By Auschwitz;  Auschwitz, the Nazis and 'The Final Solution'; War of the Century;  World War II Behind Closed Doors; and The Nazis - A Warning From History. 
Gerald Jacobs is author of Sacred Games.

You might also be interested in a curated selection of Words and Music broadcast on BBC Radio 3 called Commemorating the Liberation of Auschwitz - available on BBC Sounds and the Radio 3 website. It includes an extract from Fugitive Pieces. 

Fugitive Pieces is one of the books on a list of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, drawn up by a panel for the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/494P41NCbVYHlY319VwGbxp/explore-the-list-of-100-novels-that-shaped-our-world 

You can find Free Thinking discussions about some of the authors and books and interviews with some more of the writers in a playlist on the Free Thinking website. 

Presenter: Rana Mitter

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