NYTimes - A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation

How do you keep a story "alive" when those who experienced it have passed? 

In a decision that has received quite a bit of praise, but also quite a lot of criticism, an Israeli tech executive and his daughter have created an Instagram account entitled "Eva Stories" to coincide with the start of Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

"In 70 short episodes, a British actress playing Eva takes followers along on her Holocaust journey: a happy bourgeois prewar existence interrupted by the Nazi invasion of her hometown in what was then Hungary; her family’s forced move into the cramped chaos of the ghetto; and the packed train that ultimately transports her to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp from which she never returns." (Kershner) 


A relevant and refreshing attempt to educate today's youth on the trauma and tragedy, or a "trivializing and cheapening the Holocaust"?



Resources:

Associated Press. "Holocaust victim's story brought to life on Instagram in bid to engage young people." CBC News. Apr 30, 2019.

Eva Stories.  Instagram.

Eva.Stories:  Full Movie. YouTube. May 2, 2019.

Kershner, Isabel. "A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation." New York Times. April 30, 2019.

Reuters. "'Eva's Stories:' The Holocaust seen through Instagram."  Public Radio International (PRI). April 30, 2019.

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