Holocaust

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• SOURCE: Forward
  5/16/2022
  

  Zemmour Acquitted of Holocaust Denial after Crediting Nazi Collaborator with Saving Jews

  While there is substantial disagreement on whether Vichy leader Philippe Pétain's decision to turn over foreign-born Jews to the Nazis was motivated by a desire to save French Jews, a court ruled that the right-wing provocateur did not engage in Holocaust denial by endorsing that view. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  4/1/2022
  

  The Texas School District Considering Banning "Maus" Needs to Reconsider

  "Before reading Maus, if I had a sense of what Nazis were, it was as abstract villains, the bad guys Indiana Jones fought."

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/29/2022
  

  Can the Past be Repaired?

  by Sophie Gonick

  Menachem Kaiser's memoir of attempts to reclaim a Polish building lost by his Jewish grandfather during World War II raises questions about the right to property as parts of historical memory, and the problematic aspects of seeking reparation through restoration of ownership.

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  3/25/2022
  

  One American Family's Debt to Ukrainians

  The writer Franklin Foer heard echoes of a family history in Putin's claims to "denazify" Ukraine. He went to Ukraine to investigate the story. 

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• SOURCE: CBN
  3/22/2022
  

  Dutch Publisher Recalls Anne Frank Book after Report Challenges Findings

  A panel of historians and other experts in the Netherlands concluded that the investigators had relied on poor readings of sources and fabrication to name a fellow Amsterdam Jew as the person who betrayed the Franks' hiding place to the Nazis.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  3/22/2022
  

  What Zelensky Gets Wrong about the Holocaust in Ukraine

  by Jeffrey Veidlinger

  The Ukrainian president has overreached in comparing the invasion of his country to the Holocaust in an appeal to Israeli leaders to take action against Russia, and invoked only the Ukrainians who resisted Nazi extermination of Jews. 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Journal
  3/21/2022
  

  Why Greg Gutfeld is Mad at Me about Ukraine and the Holocaust

  by Rafael Medoff

  The Ukraine crisis is engendering conspiratorial thinking from defenders of Russia's actions. 

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• 3/17/2022
  

  This March 17, Remember the 80th Anniversary of the Escalation of the Slaughter of Jews at Belzec

  by Rick Halperin

  March marks a grim anniversary of the escalation of the Nazi "final solution" of genocide that should be remembered amid widespread revelry in America.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Journal
  3/14/2022
  

  Holocaust Echoes in Ukraine Conspiracy Theories

  by Rafael Medoff

  Some reactions to the news coverage of horrors visited on civilians echo excuses and minimization of Nazi violence against Jews, including claims that the stories are part of a campaign of emotional manipulation. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/7/2022
  

  The History of the Holocaust Site Recently Struck by a Russian Missile

  by Jeffrey Veidlinger

  The memorialization of the Nazi killing field at Babi Yar near Kyiv has long been entangled with the competing versions of history favored by communists, Ukrainian and Russian nationalists, and the descendants of Jews, Roma, and other victims of wartime massacres. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/26/2022
  

  Putin's Claim of Denazification in Ukraine is Absurd in Light of History

  by Jeffrey Veidlinger

  "Putin’s selective telling of the past exaggerates the legacy of Nazism in Ukraine while ignoring the state’s historic struggle for pluralism and democracy. There is a good reason for this: he fears democracy more than he fears Nazism."

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/1/2022
  

  Too Much Reality: Putin's Invasion Inevitably Surfaces Europe's Dark Past

  by Jim Sleeper

  Responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine can't turn away from the possibility of mass atrocity like those visited on Eastern European Jews and resistance fighters by Nazis and Stalinists. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  2/12/2022
  

  Was Forgetting the Holocaust a Pillar of West German Rebuilding?

  Harald Jähner's book contents that the West German public's view of the nation's recent past grew darker as the years passed, but in the immediate aftermath of the war, a mood of adventurousness and liberation was widespread – at the cost of avoiding discussions of atrocity.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/1/2022
  

  The Banning of Maus: Even Dumber Than You Think

  David Corn says that for the students of McMinn County, "their intellectual development is being held hostage by board members who are stuck in another era, who find vulgarity in an old pop song, and who cannot be bothered to do their own homework."

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1/31/2022
  

  Dutch Publisher Stops Printing Book Alleging Fellow Jew Betrayed Anne Frank's Family

  Two Dutch historians of the World War II period argue the book's claims that Arnold van den Bergh turned the Franks over to the Nazis are poorly supported speculations. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1/31/2022
  

  Whoopi Goldberg's Holocaust History Latest "The View" Flap

  The host's comments that the Nazi persecution of Jews was not rooted in racism drew argument from fellow panelists and is at odds with historians' understanding of European antisemitism. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  1/27/2022
  

  Remember, too, the Victims Nazis Singled Out for their Politics

  by Adam J. Sacks

  A German organization dedicated to the remembrance of left-wing victims of the Nazis has had its charitable status revoked. While the history of Nazism's persecution and murder of Jews and other groups is rightly commemorated, Nazism's violence against the political left has been obscured. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/24/2022
  

  Yizker Bikher Books Commemorate Holocaust Deaths – but also Celebrate Jewish Communities’ Life

  by Jennifer Rich

  There is another way to honor those 6 million murdered: remembering the ways they lived, not only the ways they died.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1/24/2022
  

  A Complete List of Times RFK Jr. has Compared Vaccine Mandates to the Holocaust

  The political activist has made a habit of comparing public policies he dislikes to the Holocaust, most recently in a speech at a Washington rally where he invoked Anne Frank. 

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• 1/23/2022
  

  Antisemitism is Toxic and Persistent. It's Not Inevitable

  by Ralph Seliger

  International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) follows an armed hostage incident at a Texas synagogue. The author reflects on moments when societies have chosen to embrace or reject antisemitism at moments of crisis and concludes that while the risk to Jews today is real, it is not inevitable.