After the publication of her story Laughing at the Holocaust in Estonia – a Tale of Travesty, Inna Rogatchi has been interviewed by the largest in the world Jewish themes internet resource, Aish.com.
The story by Yvette Alt examining the current phenomenon and tendency to mock the Holocaust refers to Inna Rogatchi’s views on the matter as follows:
“This desensitization has effects far beyond the art world: depicting the Holocaust as something ordinary or funny makes it easier to trivialize it or rationalize it away. “I can see the tendency of revision, to try to rewrite the Holocaust,” says Inna Rogatchi, a filmmaker and activist and co-founder of the Rogatchi Foundation. “It’s so black and white, people feel uncomfortable with that.” Current artistic representations of the Holocaust try to normalize the event, making it easier to deal with today. The results can make some uncomfortable.”
The full article “Mocking the Holocaust” can be read on the Aish.com website.
The Rogatchi Foundation notes that after wide and strong international protests and both public and diplomatic efforts to cancel the outrageous exhibition at the Tartu Art Museum mocking the Holocaust, the museum has been forced by Estonian authorities, primarily the Estonian Minister of Culture, to pull the two the most outrageous videos from the show and to apologise.
The Rogatchi Foundation which has been active in the international protest of the exhibition extends the hope that Estonian cultural authorities have learned at least some lesson on the perception of history and its tragedies and will treat these subjects with dignity and decency, and be careful to not insult the victims of the Holocaust and their families.