Los Angeles Times

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In the ledger of evils perpetrated by humans, Operation Reinhard holds a special place. Over the course of 21 months starting in March 1942, Nazi forces and their collaborators rounded up 1.7 million Jews from 393 Polish towns and ghettos and dispatc

NPR

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Survivors, who were deported via French trains to German death camps, are getting around $400,000 in compensation.

Chicago Tribune

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"My mother went in the gas chamber first," the Holocaust survivor recalled. "They took my sister and me to the bathhouse, shaved our heads and gave us striped clothes and wooden shoes. We started asking for our parents and crying, 'Where is Mom? Wher

TechLife News

3 min. di lettura

In 1964, the first public memorial to the Holocaust in the United States was unveiled in a solemn ceremony in Philadelphia. The bronze-on-black granite sculpture called “Six Million Jewish Martyrs” was the work of artist Nathan Rapoport, who fled his

History Revealed

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WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? The Holocaust was the systematic killing of European Jews who lived in areas that were controlled by Nazi Germany in World War II, as well as the persecution and murder of other groups of people. Millions of Jews lost their l

Global Voices

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The online archive Znaci.net digitized several photos of Auschwitz from different museums in the former Yugoslavia. They tell the story, among other things, of the Mandić family of prisoners from Croatia.

NPR

3 min. di lettura

Survivors and victims' descendants traveled from around the world to the Nazi death camp, at a time when Polish politicians are pushing controversial Holocaust legislation.

People

2 min. di lettura

For Princess Kate, an art history major in college, the art was in the details. As she set about taking portraits of two Holocaust survivors and their grandchildren in early January, “my elder granddaughter’s hair was a little in the way, so she made

NPR

3 min. di lettura

The Nazis established some of the most notorious extermination camps of the Holocaust on Polish soil — including Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - Joseph Alexander lifted his left forearm to show the number. Nazi guards had tattooed it on him just after he and scores of other Jewish prisoners arrived by cattle car to Auschwitz concentration camp along with the bodies of those who

Who Do You Think You Are?

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More than 1,000 eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust will be made available in English for the first time on Testifying to the Truth (testifyingtothetruth.co.uk), a new website launched by the London-based Wiener Holocaust Library. Dr Eva Reichmann,

The Guardian

2 min. di lettura

45% gave the correct answer, Pew Research Center survey finds Some people believe ignorance linked to rise in antisemitism

All About History

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Reckonings: Legacies Of Nazi Persecution And The Quest For Justice looks to broaden the way in which the Holocaust is often remembered, expanding it not just from Auschwitz to the wider mechanisms of persecution in Nazi Germany, but also the longer t

Apple Magazine

3 min. di lettura

In 1964, the first public memorial to the Holocaust in the United States was unveiled in a solemn ceremony in Philadelphia. The bronze-on-black granite sculpture called “Six Million Jewish Martyrs” was the work of artist Nathan Rapoport, who fled his

The Atlantic

3 min. di lettura

Trump’s family-separation policy is horrible, but equating it with genocide is both historically and strategically misguided.

NPR

3 min. di lettura

The United States stripped Jakiw Palij of his citizenship in 2003, but it was difficult finding a country to take him. He was never charged for his involvement in the Holocaust.

World War II

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CONSTRUCTION WORKERS CLEARING GROUND in February for a luxury apartment building in Brest, Belarus, uncovered a mass grave in what was once a Jewish ghetto. Buried in a 130-foot-long pit were the remains of 1,214 men, women, and children. Bones were

Literary Hub

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Translated by Tim Wilkinson January 1, 2001 New year: the old one was difficult, and fairly unproductive, interspersed with ugly maladies, one of which (Parkinson’s disease) will stay with me to the end of my days, the “result” of which is this wonde

NPR

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With recent incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism in France, a group of women from different religious and ethnic backgrounds sought greater understanding by learning about the horrors of the Holocaust.

Los Angeles Times

4 min. di lettura

LOS ANGELES - When Kaitlyn saw the Snapchat photos of fellow Orange County teenagers posing around a swastika made of red Solo cups, she immediately posted a screenshot to social media, expecting outrage. Instead, she got a mixed response. Some peopl

NPR

1 min. di lettura

The measure would make it illegal to accuse Poland of complicity in crimes committed by Nazi Germany. First, the controversial legislation will go to constitutional tribunal for review.

Los Angeles Times

6 min. di lettura

The leaders of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington presumably thought they were standing up for truth and fairness when they issued a statement condemning attempts to draw analogies between the Holocaust and contemporary American politics - notab

The Atlantic

6 min. di lettura

As those who lived through it are dying off, and some people claim it never happened, what will happen to sites of remembrance?

The Atlantic

4 min. di lettura

The president’s address downplayed the Shoah’s universal lessons, turning the occasion into an exercise in ethnic politics.

Hi Fi News

1 min. di lettura

www.nativedsd.com; COBRA0065 This set takes its title from Elie Wiesel’s narrative of his experiences during the Holocaust (2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz), and the majority of the works here are by composers who died

NPR

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Despite her age, the case is being handled by a juvenile court, because she was under 21 when she worked at the camp.

NPR

2 min. di lettura

Under the law, anyone who accuses the country of complicity in Nazi crimes during World War II could face three years' imprisonment. But lawmakers voted to remove that penalty on Wednesday.

Literary Hub

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How do you prepare yourself for war?, a friend asked me. It was spring and we were in Dakar, walking up the Atlantic coast; below, the outgoing tide French-kissed basalt rocks into a blues vastness. I was about to journey inland, to Mali, to visit lo

BBC History Magazine

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Barrister and TV presenter ROBERT RINDER tells us about his two-part documentary dealing with the legacy of the Holocaust and its impact on his family – and why it’s vital to talk about the trauma How did My Family, the Holocaust and Me come about? I

The Atlantic

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The Winter Olympics: The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, kicked off today. Here’s a list of the most promising athletes to watch for as the Games get underway, spanning four continents. The Games carry the heavy burden of the world’