Lily Hart

UBC Student Podcast: VHEC Collections

For their class on public history at the University of British Columbia, graduate students in HIST 595B, taught by Dr. Richard Menkis, created podcast episodes engaging with library materials, artefacts and archives in the VHEC collection. Podcast episodes were created with the assistance of Georgia Twiss, a co-host of The Broadscast.

Maya Porebska-Smith looks at correspondence in the VHEC archives in her podcast, Tracing Existence: Bearing Witness, Love and Loss in Holocaust Letters. She considers what Holocaust correspondence is and how it can be used to understand the Holocaust from a different perspective.

Play episode on correspondence: https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e1hqa8g

 

Lily Hart examines Holocaust photography and different ways photographs of the Holocaust are taken, collected, preserved, used and donated in her podcast, Holocaust Photography: From Creation to Donation.

Lily Hart

Lily Hart

Play episode on photographs: https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e1hq9ol

 

 

 

 

 

 

Propaganda as used during the Holocaust is explored by Carmen Watson in her podcast, Understanding the Effects of Propaganda: A Personal, Public and Systemic Analysis.

Carmen Watson

Carmen Watson

Play episode on propaganda: https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e1hq9ji

 

 

 

 

 

 

Podcasts are available on Anchor, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Public history and the VHEC

For their class on public history at the University of British Columbia, graduate students in HIST 595B, taught by Dr. Richard Menkis, created public exhibits engaging with library materials, artefacts and archives in the VHEC collection. Their presentations explored three main themes: Diaries & correspondence; Holocaust photography and Propaganda.

Thank you to Naomi Louie, Fiona Li, Adina Williams and Shehroze Ahmed Shaikh for their wonderful work!

 

Naomi Louie

Naomi Louie

Naomi Louie looks at correspondence in the VHEC archives in Of Love, Letters and Preservation: Correspondence during the Holocaust:

 

Fiona Li looks at published and unpublished Holocaust diaries in her exhibit, Anne Frank and Others:

Adina Williams explores the Dimant family photographs in her exhibit, Stories in Holocaust Photography: Tracing the Journeys of the Dimant Family:

Shehroze Shaikh

Shehroze Shaikh

Nazi and antisemitic propaganda from the VHEC’s collection, including publications, consumables (e.g. cigarette packaging) and everyday objects (including childhood toys and postcards) is examined by Shehroze Ahmed Shaikh in Pressures from Above: Antisemitism in Nazi Propaganda: