Holocaust Remembrance Day: A town once inhabited by Nazis reconciles with the past
As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on Jan. 27, a town in southwestern Germany unflinchingly confronts its past and ...
How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to ...
We must remember the Holocaust beyond Auschwitz
Remembering the atrocities at Auschwitz is vital, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that Auschwitz is only one part of the ...
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Ahead of Holocaust memorials, Jewish leaders honor the last generation of survivors
Oct. 7 is also a central theme at reception in Poland's Krakow marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz ...
Holocaust survivors fear Europe is forgetting the lessons of Auschwitz
Eighty years after the liberation of the concentration camp, some politicians in a divided continent have been quick to ...
‘Hate is so useless’: Filmgoers rave about documentary featuring Spokane holocaust survivor, Carla Peperzak
“Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,” a documentary co-hosted by the festival and the Spokane NAACP, tells of the first ...
The Holocaust: how ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses
Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then ...
Pope Francis urges eradication of antisemitism, says horror of the Holocaust must never be forgotten
On the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis also noted that many Christians were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
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Going Places: Landmark Anne Frank The Exhibition in NYC Personalizes Holocaust As Never Before
This is the remarkable Anne Frank The Exhibition, opening at the Center for Jewish History in New York City on January 27, ...
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'Destruction Yiddish:' How the Holocaust changed language
The Holocaust caused expedited change in language due to previously unknown trauma, physicality and extremely close contact.
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Group shares stories from Holocaust survivors, victims 80 years later
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, dozens of people gathered at the Polish Center of Wisconsin in Franklin to learn about the architect of the UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention.
The many lives of Jack Carter: Uncovering the forgotten past of a Holocaust survivor
In the final years of her husband's life, BJ Carter finally learned details of her husband's life he'd never remembered.