Holocaust history

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• 7/24/2022
  

  At 75th Anniversary, What Can Anne Frank's Diary Teach Today's Teens?

  by Naomi Yavneh Klos

  A project that trains middle school student docents to lead peer discussions of Anne Frank's diary unlocks the power of empathy and experience to impart lessons about the Holocaust and about the broader concerns of human dignity and security for adolescents strained by the pandemic, violence, and identity-based demonization. 

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• 7/22/2022
  

  The Republicans' Holocaust Problem

  by Steve Hochstadt

  "New Republican laws and their emboldened approach to white supremacy will inevitably lead to an attack on any Holocaust teaching which goes beyond the discussion of prejudice to analyze the power of embedded racism and Christian white supremacy."

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  3/10/2022
  

  When Did They Decide? The Wannsee Conference in the Context of Nazi Antisemitism

  by Christopher R. Browning

  What does a new book add to our understanding of the Nazi decision to pursue genocide against Europe's Jews? 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Journal
  2/27/2022
  

  Statement by Scholars of World War II, Genocide and Nazism on Invasion of Ukraine

  "We strongly reject the Russian government’s cynical abuse of the term genocide, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, and the equation of the Ukrainian state with the Nazi regime to justify its unprovoked aggression."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  

  Child Holocaust Survivor: Whoopi Goldberg's Remarks "Careless" and "Saddening"

  Survivor and Holocaust educator Joan Salter says that the TV host's remarks grossly miss the nature of antisemitic ideology, oppression and genocide under Nazism. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/2/2022
  

  Whoopi Goldberg's Confusion about Racism and the Holocaust Matters Because it's Common

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The TV host's remarks about the Holocaust illustrate the pervasive hold of the idea that race is a biological fact instead of a set of social categories that have changed across time and place. Historians should take this moment to educate rather than condemn. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  1/27/2022
  

  Tennessee School Board Bans Holocaust Graphic Memoir "Maus"

  Author Art Spiegelman called the decision "Orwellian" and suggested young people would be deprived of knowledge. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/16/2021
  

  Appeals Court Sides with Polish Holocaust Historians

  The decision is seen as a victory for historians and academic freedom in a Polish political climate where denying Polish complicity in the Holocaust is part of right-wing politics. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/21/2021
  

  Jonathan Steinberg: Wrote Influential English Study of Bismarck's Germany

  Jonathan Steinberg's scholarly work ranged from evaluating participation in the Holocaust to a biographical study of the influential German chancellor, and his teaching work resulted in him supervising the Prince of Wales in his undergraduate history studies. 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  2/9/2021
  

  Holocaust Scholars Ordered to Apologize in Polish Libel Case

  "The Polish League Against Defamation is ideologically aligned with the country’s ruling party, and the scholars see that as an indication the case is part of a government-backed effort to promote its historical narrative."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/5/2021
  

  Woman, 95, Indicted on 10,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder in Nazi Camp

  "Public prosecutors in Germany have indicted a 95-year-old woman for her role supporting the Nazi killing machinery as a secretary in a concentration camp, charging her with 10,000 counts of being an accessory to murder, and complicity in attempted murders."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/20/2020
  

  Pandemic Forces Holocaust Survivor Interviews Onto Zoom

  COVID forced a fast shift to video chat to record interviews with Holocaust survivors for the US Holocaust Museum's oral history project. 

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  12/19/2020
  

  Historian: Polish Society Shunned Jewish Survivors Returning From Nazi Camps

  Historian Lukasz Krzyzanowski argues that most Poles today are “unwilling to accept the bitter fact that they live in a post-genocidal land.”

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• SOURCE: Forward
  12/15/2020
  

  After an Online ‘Onslaught’ over Exhibit on Racial Justice, a Florida Holocaust Museum Vows Not to Back Down

  A Florida Holocaust museum's decision to feature an exhibition of photographs taken during recent protests over police killings of Black Americans raised questions about the museum's mission and whether the Holocaust can be remembered and its victims honored by comparing the genocide of European Jews to other instances of systemic racism. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/2/2020
  

  David Hackett, Historian and Holocaust Expert, Dies at 80

  Professor Hackett was noted for translating "The Buchenwald Report," made by German-speaking US military officers who described in detail their findings at the liberated concentration camp, preserving a key document for the fight against Holocaust denialism. He died of complications of the coronavirus. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/27/20
  

  "You shall never be a bystander." How We Learn About the Holocaust When the Last Survivors Are Gone

  by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

  Without living memories, pop culture will inevitably become the main source of knowledge for many of us.