Holocaust Remembrance Day

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• 4/11/2021
  

  Holocaust Remembrance 80 Years After the Beginning of Hitler's Campaign of Genocide

  by Rick Halperin

  We must see our lives as inextricably linked to both the past and future, so that all peoples, individually or collectively, do not have to know of a world with genocide.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/8/2012
  

  A Poem That Shows How to Remember the Holocaust

  by James Loeffler and Leora Bilsky

  "Lemkin’s anguished text also explains why the world had already begun to forget the Holocaust. Genocide represents more than a large-scale physical assault on human bodies, he suggests; it is also an attack on the very existence of minority cultures. In a genocide, books are burned and memories are extinguished."

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/21/2020
  

  Coronavirus Lockdown Deepens Holocaust Survivors' Loneliness

  How one Holocaust survivor is honoring Holocaust Remembrance Day under quarantine.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  1-28-18
  

  Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise, Germany's Leader Warns on Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Speaking on the official government podcast, Angela Merkel stressed the importance of highlighting intolerance because of a recent rise in anti-Jewish and other hate crimes.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2-2-17
  

  White House nixed Holocaust statement naming Jews

  The State Department wrote a message that recognized Jewish victims, but the White House used its own that didn’t.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1-28-17
  

  White House: No mention of Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day because others were killed too

  The presidential reference to the "innocent people" victimized by the Nazis without a mention of Jews or anti-Semitism by the White House on International Holocaust Remembrance Day was a stark contrast to statements by former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  1-27-17
  

  Jewish Leaders Warn Against ‘Post-Truth’ Populism on Holocaust Memorial Day

  Jewish leaders have warned against anti-Semitism regaining a foothold with the rise of populist politicians.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  1-27-17
  

  Powerful photos of Holocaust refugees mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Russell Neiss, a St. Louis man, chose to commemorate the day by creating the @Stl_Manifest Twitter account.