German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock places flowers at The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, known as Holocaust Memorial to commemorate on the 85th anniversary of the November 1938 progrom

'The Politics of Memory' in Europe

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 22, 2023

Masha Gessen, The New Yorker staff writer and the author of many books including Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead Books, 2020) reports after a trip to Germany on how the memory of the Holocaust complicates calls for a cease fire, support for Palestinians, and Zionism and antisemitism. 

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