Dan Stone

Historian Professor Dan Stone explains how major aspects of the Holocaust have been overlooked and says it is important we understand its true history in an age of growing nationalism and xenophobia.

Stone says the idea of ‘industrial murder’ is incomplete. Many were killed where they lived in brutal ways. He looks at the depth of collaboration across Europe and argues that we should stop thinking of the Holocaust as an exclusively German project. Stone considers the nature of the trauma the Holocaust engendered and says Jewish suffering has yet to be fully reckoned with.

Stone is professor of modern history and director of the Holocaust Research Unit at Royal Holloway University of London. He is author of Goodbye to All That? The Story of Postwar Europe and The Liberation of the Camps.

This event is part of the festival’s programme of Jewish and Hebrew literature and culture.

Sponsored by Jewish Book Week and generously supported by Professor Lucian Hudson and Jewish trusts and private donors.