The Holocaust and Other Genocides
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: January 13, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
Martin Šmok of the USC Shoah Foundation and Petr Pánek, director of publishers Pant, will present the Czech translation of the book The Holocaust and Other Genocides and speak about the importance of education and about the mechanisms of genocide.
Contributing to the understanding of the subject will be more than 20 excerpts from the filmed testimonies of those who lived through such events: survivors of the genocide of the Armenians during WWI, the famine in Ukraine, the Holocaust, meaning the genocide of Jews and people labelled Jews during WWII, and the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The material offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the manufacture of an enemy, propaganda and other phases common to all genocides, with the last being the denial that genocide has taken place.