'We live in a world of genocide: 120 million forcibly displaced, triple the number after WWII'

Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Dr. Raz Segal, Program Director and Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Dr. Segal offers a critical reflection on how we remember the Holocaust today and what our memory says about our ability to recognize and respond to mass violence and genocide in the present. Segal connects modern debates about AI‑generated Holocaust imagery with deeper concerns about how Holocaust memory has been institutionalised, and how it often fails to protect the victims of ongoing violence around the world. He challenges conventional thinking about “lessons” from the Holocaust and calls attention to the tensions between state‑centred memory politics and the lived experiences of people facing genocide today.