America’s Holocaust museums should mobilize for racial truth and reconciliation
When I was 19 years old, the small Holocaust museum in my hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana was firebombed. The arsonist spray-painted on the brick exterior the words “Remember Timmy McVeigh” — an...
View ArticleWaking up to the parallels between the American Indian Boarding School system...
As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I grew up hearing about the unfathomable conditions the Jews endured while in concentration camps or in hiding. I learned about the numbers tattooed on my Papa’s...
View ArticleJapanese municipality holds benefit to commemorate savior of Jews
(JTA) — A municipality in Japan celebrated the 80th anniversary of the rescue of Jews by a local diplomat with a bake sale. The benefit, which began this week in Japan’s Gifu district, will continue...
View ArticleHundreds associated with anti-Semitic movement attempt to break into German...
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/hundreds-associated-with-anti-semitic-movement-attempt-to-break-into-german-parliament-building(JTA) — Several hundred protesters, some associated with an anti-Semitic...
View ArticlePosters glorifying Nazism hung at Arizona State U
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/posters-glorifying-nazism-hung-at-arizona-state-u(JTA) — Posters glorifying Nazism were found on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University for the second time in less...
View ArticleLithuanian police holding activist who protested glorification of alleged...
(JTA) — Lithuanian state police have arrested a university lecturer from Spain for criticizing the glorification of alleged Holocaust perpetrators, a fellow activist said. Miquel Puertas, who several...
View ArticleHolocaust Austria offers citizenship to the descendants of Jews who fled the...
Tens of thousands of British citizens are among the many descendants of Jewish refugees who can apply for Austrian citizenship from Tuesday under a new law that campaigners say finally delivers a...
View ArticleThe Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives
Documents reveal the private discussions behind both Pope Pius XII’s silence about the Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and the Vatican’s postwar support for the kidnapping of two Jewish boys...
View ArticleA Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau
The final article from “Beyond the World War II We Know,” a series by The Times that documents lesser-known stories from the war, remembers Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz, a prisoner at Dachau who secretly...
View ArticleBEYOND THE WORLD WAR II WE KNOW For Some Holocaust Survivors, Even Liberation...
“If their eyes were mirrors, it seems I’m not far from dead.” After being freed by Allied troops, some former prisoners continued to be mistreated. On April 10, 1945, the 84th Infantry Division...
View ArticleFilm about Nicholas Winton, rescuer of children from the Nazis, stars Anthony...
(JTA) — A feature film about the life of Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis, is in production with Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins in the lead role. “One Life” has Hopkins playing an...
View ArticleThe Secret History of America’s Only WWII Refugee Camp
At the height of the war, 982 refugees fleeing the Nazis were invited by President Roosevelt to a converted military base in upstate New York. Elfi Strauber was 11 years old when she boarded the U.S.S....
View ArticleSurvey: 63% of millennials, Gen Z unaware of key Holocaust facts
(Gray News) – The first-ever 50 state survey on Holocaust knowledge among Americans within the millennial and Generation Z age groups revealed more than half of those who took part were unaware of key...
View Article3 Holocaust monuments vandalized with swastikas in Ukraine and Russia
(JTA) — In three separate incidents this week, swastikas were painted on two monuments for Holocaust victims in Ukraine, and another one in Russia. At the former concentration camp Bogdanovka, in...
View ArticleNearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift...
(JTA) — For most of his life, all the information Igor Kulakov had about his paternal great-grandparents was their picture, their names and the fact that they had been murdered during the Holocaust....
View ArticleFriend of Anne Frank lays first stone of Amsterdam’s newest Holocaust monument
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — For a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor and friend of the renowned teenage diarist Anne Frank, laying the first brick for a new monument to victims of the genocide was a “special...
View ArticleNeo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement targets Jews on Yom Kippur
“This year, the modern-day successors of the Nazis, known as the Nordic Resistance Movement, have mounted a vile and vicious campaign of hate against Jews in Northern Europe.” The neo-Nazi Nordic...
View ArticleBabi Yar at 79 … and its future
(September 29, 2020 / JNS) Over a two-day period, beginning on Sept. 29, 1941, almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv was wiped out at a ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Babi Yar. The...
View ArticleNew center sheds light on previously unknown details of Holocaust’s Babyn Yar...
Raisa Maistrenko will never forget Sept. 29, 1941 — the day Nazi troops rounded up the Jewish residents of Kyiv, Ukraine, and marched them to the Babyn Yar ravine on the city’s outskirts. “Leaflets...
View ArticleRoman Polanski’s Holocaust saviors to be named Righteous Among the Nations
(JTA) — Israel is set to honor the couple who rescued Jewish film director Roman Polanski from the Holocaust. A grandson of Stefania and Jan Buchała will accept the medal naming them posthumously as...
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