Hoping to enliven fading Holocaust memories, Israeli entrepreneurs have dramatiz...
JERUSALEM - Hoping to enliven fading Holocaust memories, Israeli entrepreneurs have dramatized the plight of a Jewish teenager murdered by the Nazis by imagining her documenting her final months over social media.
Dozens of Instagram video posts will show a cast in period costume and locations acting out passages from the diary of Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Hungarian deported to her death in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. The project was endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who saw a means of bolstering Israel’s role as both haven and historical homeland for Jews.
There has been some criticism that an Instagram version of the Holocaust was not an appropriate approach.
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