What Holocaust memorials are for

Editor's note

The Yolocaust project, which juxtaposed photographs of people enjoying themselves at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial against mountains of dead bodies in concentration camps went viral just as Germany prepared to mark International Holocaust Memorial day.

Irit Dekel had studied the way visitors behave at the Berlin memorial, and argues that there's a lot more to the site than selfie-taking and public shaming.

Megan Clement

Deputy Global Editor

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Let action in Holocaust memorials open a discussion, instead of shaming: on the 'Yolocaust' selfies project

Irit Dekel, University of Virginia

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Editor's note

Top story

Let action in Holocaust memorials open a discussion, instead of shaming: on the 'Yolocaust' selfies project

Politics + Society

Pity China's 'bare branches': unmarried men stuck between tradition and capitalism

Facing unemployment, austerity and scandal, Brazil struggles to keep it together

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To tackle the post-truth world, science must reform itself

Environment + Energy

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