Social media and the transmission of Holocaust memory
By France24
28 January 2020 |
1:46 pm
As the Holocaust is remembered 75 years after the horrors of Nazi death camps, how can the intergenerational transmission of memory be secured? Could social media play a role? We take a look at some examples.
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