Confronting our Past through a Distant Mirror:
Reflections on the Holocaust as a tool for teaching about Memory and Justice in South Africa
“While we learned much about the Holocaust on the tour, a lesson we had not anticipated
was that our individual relationship to this history was much more complicated than we
could have ever imagined”
“As part of the curatorial team, I had to think about why we visit exhibitions about Genocide and the Holocaust. What is it that we are hoping to learn about the past? And in this process of looking and learning, what might we learn about ourselves?”
Ronel Koekemoer “As part of the curatorial team, I had to think about why we visit exhibitions about Genocide and the Holocaust. What is it that we are hoping to learn about the past? And in this process of looking and learning, what might we learn about ourselves?”
“While we learned much about the Holocaust on the tour, a lesson we had not anticipated
was that our individual relationship to this history was much more complicated than we
could have ever imagined”
“As part of the curatorial team, I had to think about why we visit exhibitions about Genocide and the Holocaust. What is it that we are hoping to learn about the past? And in this process of looking and learning, what might we learn about ourselves?”
Ronel Koekemoer “As part of the curatorial team, I had to think about why we visit exhibitions about Genocide and the Holocaust. What is it that we are hoping to learn about the past? And in this process of looking and learning, what might we learn about ourselves?”
