Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: 'No memorial can come anywhere near what happened'

The cellist believes that plans for a UK Holocaust memorial are ‘counter-productive’. What matters most, she argues, is education

Have you, I ask the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, ever seen a memorial to the Holocaust – or to any atrocity – that was effective?

“It’s difficult to say how effective it is on the person who looks at it,” she says. “I mean I was in it, after all, I’m a survivor of it. Nothing really can come anywhere near what actually happened, you know.”

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source https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/27/holocaust-survivor-anita-lasker-wallfisch-uk-holocaust-memorial-learning-centre

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