Learning Module: How do films shape our memory of the Holocaust?
A new learning module on Medienradar accompanies the documentary Holofiction by Michal Kosakowski. The film booklet provides teachers with background information and practical tasks for classroom use.
Download Film Booklet (in German/PDF)
The documentary explores representations of the Holocaust throughout film history. For this purpose, Kosakowski analyzed images and scenes from more than 3,000 films about the mass murder of Jews and other victims of the Nazi regime, reassembling them into a new cinematic form.
The result is a film essay that reveals which images and motifs are repeatedly used in Holocaust films—and how visual memory is created and passed on through cinema.
Suitable for classroom use from grade 9 onwards.
Credits & Publication Details
Publisher: Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen e. V., Berlin (Medienradar)
Author: Eva Hasel
Editorial: Christian Kitter, Dirk Uhlig
Editing: Lotta Bartoschewski
Layout & Design: Dirk Uhlig
The booklet is part of the Medienradar dossier “NS Crimes and the Holocaust in Media Discourse – Between Education, Emotionalization and Responsibility” and is available online.
