Holocaust

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/24/2022
  

  An Email From a Stranger Sent Me on a Quest for Family and Self

  For a Canadian-raised child of Hungarian Jewish refugees, an email sparked a research project that unlocked mysteries about his family. 

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• 9/25/2022
  

  Anne Frank's Next Diary Entries

  by Bernice Lerner

  When I was a teenager, I imagined that Anne Frank was at my mother’s 15th birthday party. After all, they were the same age and they were both in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. How did I arrive at such a phantastic conflation?

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• 9/18/2022
  

  Another Documentarian's Perspective on "The U.S. and the Holocaust"

  by Martin Ostrow

  Like many other Americans, I will be watching closely to see if The U.S. and the Holocaust honestly portrays the responsibility of American leaders, or fails to confront the difficult truths that need to be faced.

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• 8/28/2022
  

  How I Helped a Private Man Share His Story of Escaping the Nazis

  by David Tabatsky

  For me, the son of a cantor and WWII veteran, who grew up seeing numbers tattooed on numerous arms, sharing Salomon Kool's story has reminded me of a collective mission to always remember.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  8/16/2022
  

  Texas District Removes Graphic Version of Diary of Anne Frank

  “It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”

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• SOURCE: Tablet
  6/28/2022
  

  A Legend of Innocence

  by Daniel Solomon

  Both the French left and right are impeding the teaching of how 75,000 French Jews were turned over to the Nazis. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/31/2022
  

  The Back Channel Between Pius XII and Hitler

  by David I. Kertzer

  The Vatican has only just now released documents about secret and sensitive negotiations between the Nazi leader and the Holy See, in which the Vatican agreed to temper criticisms of Nazism's pagan elements in exchange for ceasing investigation of sex crimes by priests.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  5/24/2022
  

  How the US Government Used Comics to Inform Americans About the Holocaust

  An irony of the "Maus" controversy is that the government used the medium of comics to inform the public about the discovery of the Nazi death camps. 

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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.