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#NVHOW20 Introducing Alice Tofts @AliceTofts2 @I_W_M @CDPConnect ‘An affective and reflective approach to studying Holocaust memory and photographs’ - the challenges implicit in managing emotional reactions to harrowing subjects #holocaustmemory #heuristicresearch #PhDlife
1 #NVHOW20 Few would deny that war and conflict is inherently upsetting and traumatic to experience and witness. But we rarely question what it means to study it? How do traumatic pasts impact those who investigate them and what does this mean for historical enquiry?
2 #NVHOW20 My research investigates the meaning and memories evoked and imbued by personal photographs of Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees whose stories have been collected and told by the Imperial war Museum (IWM).
