Newcastle Libraries – Talk- 2025
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Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Newcastle City Library
Address:
Bewick Hall, Newcastle City Library
33 New Bridge Street West
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne & Wear
NE1 8AX
United Kingdom
When the Holocaust became the Holocaust: changing imaginations of genocide in the West
Bewick Hall, City Library
Thursday 30 January, 5.15pm
FREE, but booking essential at Newcastle Libraries Eventbrite
Professor Ian Biddle tells the story of how we came to understand the term “Holocaust” and where it comes from. Who first coined the term? When did it become a proper noun? How did we first come to make sense of the systematic slaughter of 11 million people in Europe? How has our understanding changed since its first use? The lecture will introduce some key moments in the history of our understanding of the term, including cinematic, literary and other representations that help us understand the enormity of this thing we call the Holocaust.
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