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Free Thinking: Yishai Sarid, Marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

Marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

Yishai Sarid, Marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Yishai Sarid, Marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

Anne McElvoy talks to Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid & hears about new historical research.

How many Jewish people fled Nazi Germany for India? Did anti-Semitism lead to the murder of the novelist Zola?  An exhibition on Romanian Fascism. Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid.

A tour guide at Polish holocaust sites is at the centre of a new novel by Yishai Sarid. The author talks to Anne McElvoy about his own trips to Poland as a teenager and then as a father and the questions they made him ask about how that history is taught and commemorated.  Plus three researchers share insights from their studies. Roland Clark has co-curated an exhibition at The Wiener Holocaust Library which explores the wider role of European fascist movements in genocide. Joseph Cronin has been looking at how Jewish refugees come to end up in colonial India. And, Allis Moss asks how anti-Semitism in nineteenth century France might have led to the murder of Emile Zola, and what we can learn about that murder from the art and cartoons of the time.   

The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid translated into English by Yardenne Greenspan is out now.

This Fascist Life: Radical Right Movements in Interwar Europe runs at The Wiener Holocaust Library until 15 February 2022.  You can hear more from Roland about his research in a previous episode of Free Thinking called Remembering Auschwitz https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dq00 
If you want recommendations of Romanian writing including books exploring Jewish history Anne McElvoy talked to Mircea Cărtărescu, Philippe Sands and Georgina Harding https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011rwx 
 
Producer: Ruth Watts 

Image: A display of prisoner uniforms at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
Image credit: Richard Sowersby/BBC

Holocaust Memorial Day will be marked on January 27th 2022.  You can find Free Thinking conversations from previous years in a playlist looking at War and Conflict 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kgbyb

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