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What if a girl in the holocaust had Instagram?
FLFausto Liriano · May 2, 2019, 5:35 PM · Last modified: Sep 28, 2026, 11:38 AM
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This Holocaust Remembrance Day, an online project known as Eva’s Stories is uploading snippets of video every 30 minutes to the @eva.stories Instagram page. Based on the diary of Eva Heiman, the videos recreate the last months in the life of the 13-year-old Hungarian girl who was killed in Auschwitz in June 1944. Begun on her thirteenth birthday on February 13, 1944, the diary entries continue until three days before she was deported. (As I write this, videos for entries up to March 14 are visible.) The project’s creators clearly hope that Eva Heiman’s life and words will resonate with girls of today as Anne Frank’s did with girls of earlier generations.
You can read the whole story here: Instagramming the Holocaust...
Great stuff!
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My immediate response to the question in the title of this post was a cynical one-just like that at the end of the short article. Our sensibilities have become dulled to horrifying events like the gassing of Syrians or the drownings of immigrant babies in the Mediterranean. And the digital age has made this all more present to us.
But there is a push-back as well to this coarsening of our civil life, and maybe we will see another era of hope emerge (albeit ambiguously) like those after WWII, or after the fall of the former Soviet Union. But these historical moments are always fraught, like the 1960's in the USA, when civil rights and anti-war sentiments were mixed with violence and hate.
It does make one think.