Arts around the Holocaust marked with book launch in Brighton

Arts around the Holocaust were marked with the launch of a new book at Brighton’s Latest Music Bar.

Holocaust in History and Memory is an annual journal which focuses on different aspects of the Nazi persecution of the Jews and other minorities during the 1930s and 1940s.

Contributors of the new tome include Latest TV’s very own Bill Smith, who founded the Life and Death Orchestra 20 years ago which saw holocaust survivors’ poetry set to music.

Bill said: “There’s a lot of people who said [arts] do not have a place [when remembering the Holocaust]. But if you say that you would never have had any protest music at all.

“If you’re going to tell the story of history just writing it down sometimes is not enough. You need to record it so people hear it. Folk ballads for hundreds and hundreds of years were the way ordinary people, yokels like me, told stories.”

Professor Rainer Schulze, editor of Holocaust In History and Memory, said: “We need to get away from what many Holocaust memorial events do and treat it as an historical topic which happened between 1933 and 1945.”