What if you could Instagram the Holocaust? A question sparks controversy
Israeli high-tech entrepreneur Mati Kochavi has set up an Instagram account for the real life figure of Eva Heymann, a 13-year-old Hungarian girl. The account interprets the diary she started in 1944, using selfies, pictures and videos, from her that chronicle the more mundane events of her life and her family’s persecution by the Nazis.
This has apparently (and expectedly) stirred up controversy, but perhaps this requires more thought as to why, and whether this is the problem the naysayers think it is. We live in a world where atrocity and persecution is shared over social media— this helps foster outrage and can even be a tool for organising. So why is it a problem when it is used as a tool for memory?
I don’t know how I feel about the reenactments of atrocities used here, but again, is this me assuming that documentary, like older media platforms, are more fittingly sober?
News source: https://abcnews.go.com/International/instagrammed-version-holocaust-stirs-controversy/story?id=62725980