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Rather than blaming carbon, Paul Hawken argues we should recognise its role in animating life. This way, we can heal the planet

Paul Hawken’s Carbon is about a decade in the making. Perhaps the book’s long gestation is why it feels so familiar,

The Conversation

A Man of Few Words by Carlo Greppi review – Primo Levi’s saviour… and a tortured soul

An intriguing study of Lorenzo Perrone, the bricklayer who helped the famous author survive Auschwitz – then lost the will to live

The Guardian - UK

Starmer: Holocaust was ‘collective endeavour’ by ordinary people consumed by hatred

The Prime Minister spoke of his ‘harrowing’ visit to Block 27 at Auschwitz with his wife Victoria earlier this month.

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‘Hell on Earth’: Who were the victims killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz?

January 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious Nazi extermination camp in Poland.

Al Jazeera

The Guardian view on commemorating Auschwitz’s liberation: the urgency of Holocaust remembrance

Editorial: Eighty years after the Nazi death camp was freed, the testimony of survivors is as crucial as ever

The Guardian - UK

Repression, resentment and resilience: A portrait of concentration camp survivors 80 years after their liberation

Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Simone Veil — we know some concentration camp survivors today because of the testimonies they wrote, or their political or literary work.

The Conversation

Haegue Yang review – a must-see show if the slats of venetian blinds make you cry

Hayward Gallery, London This busy retrospective of the Korean artist’s collage-heavy work uses terms like ‘displacement’ and ‘interconnectivity’ but you’d be better off just taking a walk to the shops

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Historians warn of hate's mission creep

His stormtroopers will round up anyone they decide does not belong in this country, whether they’re citizens or not

Salon

Badenheim 1939; Katerina; The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld review – survivors’ tales full of beauty and pain

Memory and trauma go hand in hand in these two novels and a memoir by the late Israeli writer, who shows that hope can be worse than despair

The Guardian - UK

Best books about the Second World War to read this year

From memoirs and biographies to historical deep dives into the war’s most brutal battles, these are some of the best books about WWII

Evening Standard

Jonathan Glazer on his holocaust film The Zone of Interest: ‘This is not about the past, it’s about now’

The director’s audacious new film about Auschwitz’s commandant was 10 years in the making. He explains how it was made – and the importance of finding light in the darkness

The Guardian - UK

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein review – a family in peril

The journalist’s story of how his parents lived through the Holocaust reads like a thriller, but it’s the wider focus on how liberal values were powerless in the face of fascism that makes it a modern classic

The Guardian - UK

Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp

This is an edited extract from Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani.

The Conversation

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – the man who broke out of Auschwitz

The astonishing story of how Rudolf Vrba escaped the Nazi camp, and his mission to tell the world about it

The Guardian - UK

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