HOLOCAUST EDUCATION

FOREWORD

LHRF ORIGINS
SOME HISTORY

FROM ROME TO LVIV

 The idea of a Holocaust web project began in Rome, Italy, during the summer of 2011. Two friends from England discussed the possibility of developing Holocaust education trips that visited Treblinka, Sobibór and Bełżec. Back then I had never been to Ukraine and had transited Poland only once (via Warsaw).

 It was in Rome where I learned about "Stolpersteine", brass cobblestones that commemorate the places where normal people lived freely before they were deported to be killed. There are over 300 "stumbling stones" in Rome and almost 80,000 more elsewhere in Europe as of December, 2021.

 When I was in my early twenties, I read "If this is a Man" by Primo Levi and bought a VHS video about Majdanek. I watched Shoah by Claude Lanzmann many times, trying to understand why the Holocaust happened, who was responsible, were the perpetrators brought to justice, and where did all of this happen? Surely not just in the few death camps we knew about from books, films and documentaries. Surely more places. My move to Lviv on Christmas Day, 2013 answered some of those questions and here we are.

 Core content comprises four parts as presented below. We document and discuss two mass execution sites here in Lviv (Janowska camp environs and Lysynychi forest), the Lviv ghetto, and the Lviv pogroms of July, 1941. Two further parts ("Lviv Perception" and "Lviv Culpability") will confront Lviv city and citizens about the absence of Holocaust memory and appropriate memorialization - these pages are currently work in progress.

 Additional pages explain our objectives, there is a news and updates feed, and our manifesto is clear.

Daniel Hallam LHRF Founder, Editor
December 29th, 2021