USC’s new Anne Frank Center ‘unlike anything the university has ever done before
Columbia, South Carolina, is now only one of four places in the world, and the only one on this continent, where people can physically walk through the story of Holocaust victim Anne Frank. The...
View ArticleBelgian town square to remove references honoring Nazis
(JTA) — A Belgian town is removing from a local square most of its references to a group of Latvian soldiers who were part of Nazi Germany’s SS forces, following allegations that the square honored...
View ArticleLast known surviving fighter of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising dies at age 97
Leon Kopelman, possibly the last surviving man to have fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, died on Friday at age 97. Kopelman was born in Poland in 1924 to a well-to-do family. When the Nazis took...
View ArticlePoland officially approves law that limits Holocaust restitution claims,...
(JTA) — Poland’s president signed into law a bill that will restrict Holocaust restitution claims by Jews and others who had property stolen by the Nazis or Soviet-backed occupation forces during the...
View ArticlePolish court rules in favor of Holocaust historians
An appeals court ruled on Monday that two historians accused of tarnishing the memory of a Polish villager in a book about the Holocaust need not apologize, overturning a lower court ruling that raised...
View ArticlePoland is ‘reviewing’ changes to Israel’s annual school trips to former...
(JTA) — Amid a growing diplomatic crisis between Israel and Poland, a senior Polish diplomat said his government is “reviewing” changes to the annual educational school trips from Israel to former Nazi...
View ArticleWhy are we still so obsessed with Hitler? An unconventional new documentary...
(JTA) — “Is it possible to make a film like this without contributing to the Nazi Cinematic Universe?” This line of narration comes early in “The Meaning of Hitler,” a fiery new documentary about the...
View ArticleLithuania abandons plan to build conference center atop former Jewish cemetery
(JTA) — Lithuania’s government has shelved controversial plans to build a flashy conference center on what used to be a Jewish cemetery in the capital city of Vilnius because of how the COVID-19...
View ArticleA Nazi mass murderer in our midst?
A few years ago Wayne Stringer stopped to help an old man who had collapsed outside the Oamaru post office. The man was a Lithuanian, “from Kaunas”. “Whereabouts in Kaunas?” said Stringer, a former...
View ArticleSymbolic grave for Jews in Poland defaced with slogans praising Hitler
(JTA) — Praises for Adolf Hitler were etched on a grave-shaped monument in Poland for Holocaust victims whose bodies were burnt. Meanwhile, in Spain, police arrested a man whom they say was filmed...
View ArticleThe Jewish doctor who escaped the Nazis, became a medical pioneer and founded...
The 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games open on Tuesday. Much like the Olympic Games in the Japanese capital, there are plenty of Jewish athletes to support, like emerging track and field star Ezra Frech and...
View ArticleUnsung Dutchman who saved as many as 10,000 Jews during the Holocaust is...
When ordinary people who have no intentions of making history step up to do the right thing, it reminds us that we all have the ability to be heroes. Jan Zwartendijk, a company man who risked the life...
View ArticleU.S. Holocaust Museums Are Updating Content and Context
Many organizations are now trying to reach wider and younger audiences, and to tackle topics beyond the Holocaust. With an urgency to preserve memory and modernize as the remaining Holocaust survivors...
View ArticleLatvia grants Holocaust restitution — while insisting it’s not at fault
(JTA) — Latvia’s parliament voted to pay $46 million to the country’s Jewish community for property that was stolen from it during the Holocaust from individuals with no surviving legal heirs. The...
View ArticleMemorial site launched at Babi Yar killing ground
Testimony of Nazi murderers revealed • Presidents Herzog, Zelensky, Steinmeier launch commemoration site • Sharansky: A double crime was committed, first by Nazis, then Soviets KYIV – The presidents of...
View ArticleI spoke to a Holocaust survivor’s 3D hologram. Then I phoned the survivor.
I sat down across from Renee Firestone and asked her about her life during the Holocaust. The conversation flowed: what her life was like before the war, and how she endured Auschwitz. The small,...
View ArticleTexas official to teachers: State law requires teaching ‘opposing’ views on...
(JTA) — Teachers in a Texas school district were told last week that a new state law requiring them to present multiple perspectives about “widely debated and currently controversial” issues meant they...
View ArticleSwedish education agency recommends exercise that has students argue the...
(JTA) — Sweden’s National Agency for Education recommended that teachers should make students try to prove that the Holocaust never happened, as part of a push to help them understand conspiracy...
View ArticleHow science is helping unearth an 80-year-old Holocaust mystery
Out of the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, remnants of resistance emerge, thanks to advanced geoscientific tools and a team determined to keep the horrors of history from fading. In a grassy patch of...
View ArticleChilean newspaper draws outrage with tribute to Nazi leader Hermann Göring
(JTA) — One of the largest newspapers in Chile published a tribute feature to Nazi Hermann Göring on Sunday, sparking an outcry from politicians and the Chilean Jewish community. The article, which was...
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