The guest of this episode of Interview Hour is writer, educator, and researcher Elena Makarova.
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This conversation explores art as a form of survival and resistance, family memory of the GULAG, inner dissent, and the refusal to live by lies. Elena Makarova speaks about her unconventional childhood in a family of poets, encounters with censorship and pressure, her work with children, and pedagogy under conditions of unfreedom.
A central focus of the program is her long-term research into the legacy of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, a Bauhaus artist and educator who worked with children in the Terezín ghetto. Makarova discusses children’s drawings, archives, and diaries, and reflects on how art and attention to a child’s inner world became a means of survival in the camp.
This interview is a reflection on freedom and unfreedom, human dignity, the power of culture, and the responsibility of memory to the future.
The full transcript of the interview and a line-by-line English translation are available on Elena Makarova’s page on the website of Gregory Antimony:
https://www.gregoryantimony.
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