Whatever your conclusion, you can’t say anything about the uniqueness or the unprecedentedness, or the significance of the Holocaust without knowing something about other genocides. ‘I think the answer is, it’s not only possible it’s actually impossible not to. Film transcript:Ī question that a lot of people ask is: Is it possible to compare the Holocaust to other genocides? Dan is also a member of our Experts’ Reference Group, which advise us on historical and contemporary questions related to the Holocaust, the genocides that followed, the nature of genocide, historical memory and commemoration.
He is the author/editor of several works on Holocaust historiography, including Concentration Camps: A Short History (2017), Histories of the Holocaust (2010), The Historiography of the Holocaust (2004).
Professor Dan Stone specialises in 20th-century European history, genocide, and fascism. Professor Stone is a British historian, Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Director of its Holocaust Research Institute. In this video our Senior Communications Officer, Farayi Mungazi, speaks to Professor Dan Stone about how and when it is appropriate to draw comparisons between the Holocaust and other genocides.
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