Emma Hussain discusses Judith Kerr’s impact on the effects of reading children’s books on child development.
Holocaust
Commemorating the Holocaust in Budapest: Remembering Jewish lives, not deaths
The streets of Budapest, like many other European cities, are punctuated by brass plaques in the pavement. These plaques are called ‘stolpersteine’. They are ‘stumbling stones’ that you can come across purely by chance and which, placed in the street outside the last known address of a victim of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution, remember […]
Obituary: Elie Wiesel
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. The above words, from Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical work Night, perfectly […]