A large public relations campaign titled "No Story, History" was recently launched in Poland to remind people of the Holocaust and the established historical facts ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, January 27.
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The campaign, which was backed by Israeli NGO "Chasdei Naomi," is centered around a "fake news" segment in which a virtual representation of Eva Braun, the wife of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, interviews the real-life prime minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, about Poland's role in the Holocaust and modern-day antisemitism.
Video: nostoryhistory.com
The campaign is being conducted amid the Polish government's efforts in recent years to deny the country's role in the annihilation of Europe's Jews. The image of the very same "Eva Braun" has also been plastered on billboards across the country.
Chasdei Naomi said its "fake vs. fake" campaign was produced under a veil of considerable secrecy together with Polish advertisement agencies. The video, which employs "deep-fake" technology, is meant as a message about reality fabrication. The video ends with a link to www.nostoryhistory.com, a website that presents the truth about the Holocaust through survivors' testimonies.
Chasdei Naomi is the largest welfare NGO in Israel and has operated 40 branches throughout the country for the past 35 years. "No Story, History" is its first international campaign dealing with Holocaust survivors, thousands of whom live in meager conditions and are supported by Chasdei Naomi through food deliveries, medication funding, home upkeep, and more.
"We live in a time where some people try presenting fake as reality," Chasdei Naomi said. "Teenagers are taking filtered photographs on social media and consistently confuse reality with fantasy, which creates a dangerous norm. There has to be a way to make information about the Holocaust accessible to the next generations and to ensure that at the same time we are preserving history as it happened, and don't change it via the traditional and digital media. When it comes to governments, the responsibility is even greater."
Rabbi Yosef Cohen, the founder and chairman of Chasdei Naomi, said: "In Israel, many Holocaust survivors live in need – and among the reasons for this are the difficult scars that never allowed them to live in peace. Similar to Germany, Poland, too, is responsible for their situation. When countries are responsible for crimes against humanity and they try making laws that prohibit discourse about that responsibility and blur their role in the Holocaust, it is just as heinous a crime as complete denial of the Holocaust."
Addressing the Polish prime minister, Cohen said, "I call on you, Mateusz Morawiecki, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day – apologize. Apologize and admit to the Jewish people Poland's role in the Holocaust."
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