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SOURCE: New York Times
1/3/2021
The Holocaust Stole My Youth. COVID-19 Is Stealing My Last Years
"I am trying not to give up. But what is getting me down is that I am losing a year. And this bothers me terribly. I’m 87 years old, and I lost almost a full year."
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SOURCE: Haaretz
12/6/2020
How Hanukkah Returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall Decades After the Holocaust
The annual Hanukkah concert at the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam resumed in 2015 after a hiatus that began with Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Many Dutch Jews hope that the event will support unity in a community that is diverse in terms of observance and smaller in number than it was in 1946.
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SOURCE: Algemeiner
12/6/2020
US Supreme Court to Hear Two Cases Related to Holocaust Restitution
Two cases test the doctrine of foreign sovereign immunity to determine whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction to return works of art to heirs of Jewish art dealers dispossessed by Nazis in 1935.
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12/6/2020
Is There Anything Left to Learn about Hitler?
by James Thornton Harris
Volker Ullrich presents a picture of a leader whose "egocentrism... inability to self-criticize…tendency to overestimate himself... contempt for others and lack of empathy" made him willing to destroy his nation along with himself, but warns that the Third Reich was "a dictatorship of consent."
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/28/2020
Israel’s Pick to Head Holocaust Memorial Stirs International Uproar
“You don’t play politics with the Shoah, and this is playing politics with the Shoah,” Professor [Deborah] Lipstadt said. She is one of 750 historians, Jewish studies experts and cultural figures who signed a petition protesting the appointment of Effie Eitam to head Israel's national Holocaust memorial.
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SOURCE: Forward
11/19/2020
Effi Eitam Leading Yad Vashem Disgraces the Memory of the 6 Million
by Derek Penslar and Susannah Heschel
"The politicization and radicalization of the institution will rob it of its legitimacy. Yad Vashem cannot fulfill its responsibilities with Effi Eitam at its helm."
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SOURCE: Voice of America
11/17/2020
German Historians on Frontlines of Politics
German historians have faced lawsuits for writing about World War II-era crimes by the Wehrmacht, part of a growing culture war in which right-wing Germans seek to deny or diminish the Holocaust and Nazi war crimes.
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SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
11/15/2020
Dozens Of Academics Oppose New Controversial Yad Vashem Chair
Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt is among the academics criticizing the appointment of a right-wing politician to head the Israeli Holocaust memorial and educational center, arguing that his remarks toward Palestinians and Arab Israelis are disqualifying.
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SOURCE: Haaretz
11/8/2020
Revered Polish Jew, Holocaust Survivor Joins Protests Over Top Appointment at Yad Vashem
A prominent Polish Holocaust survivor has objected to the appointment of Effi Eitam, an Israeli politician and former military commander, to chair the directorate of the Holocaust memorial because of inflammatory statements calling for the deportation of Palestinans from the West Bank and calling Arab Israelis a "fifth column."
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SOURCE: ABC News
11/8/2020
Dutch Protestant Church Admits Failing Jews in World War II
René de Reuver, speaking on behalf of the General Synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, said the church’s role began long before Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/2/2020
Searching for Refuge After the Second World War
New books by David Nasaw and Paul Betts examine the uncertain fate of Jewish Holocaust survivors in postwar Europe, the problem of massive human displacement, and the tension between interpreting Europe's refugee problem in universal terms or focusing on the specific consequences of anti-Jewish policies and prejudice.
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SOURCE: KJZZ
10/26/2020
Arizona Education Board Votes To Require Students Learn About The Holocaust, Other Genocides
Esther Basch, a Holocaust survivor, and her daughter Rachel Basch Turet told the board that many of the people they speak with know about World War II, but have no idea of "the extent of horrors that happened to the Jews in Europe.”
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SOURCE: Forward
10/19/2020
Sacha Baron Cohen Interviewed a Holocaust Survivor for the New ‘Borat;’ Now Her Daughter’s Suing
The producers of the "Borat" sequel insist the interview was used to mock Holocaust deniers; surviving relatives argue the use of her story for satirical purposes was deceptive and inappropriate.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/8/2020
Holocaust Survivor's Daughter in Legal Battle With Historian over Claim of Lesbian Liaison with Nazi Guard
Hájková, who is researching the queer history of the Holocaust, said testimonies by survivors of the camps and legal documents from the guard’s trial led her to conclude that the two women might have had a lesbian relationship, either coercive or consensual. However, she acknowledged that there was no definite proof of this.
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10/18/2020
Fraught Family Reunification After the Holocaust
by Rebecca Clifford
"A tenth of Europe's pre-war population of Jewish children survived the Holocaust. Many sought and achieved reunification with their families, but reunification did not usually end the trauma endured by this "fragment of an entire generation."
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SOURCE: Vox
10/5/2020
The German Model for America
West German society intially sought to repress evidence of the Holocaust and Nazi crimes, preserving a myth that German civilians were also victims. The work of owning up to those crimes took decades and encountered bitter resistance.
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SOURCE: Slate
10/1/2020
“Shocking Levels of Ignorance”? A Closer Look at the Survey of Millennials' Holocaust Awareness
A recent survey claimed to show widespread ignorance about the Holocaust among young American adults, but its methods may not support its most sensational conclusions. Regardless, other surveys show that Americans value learning about the history of the Holocaust. Educators should capitalize by encouraging students to go beyond memorizing facts to understanding the processes of ethnic vilification, political violence and genocide.
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SOURCE: Patheos
9/22/2020
RBG, Historian: Why Justice Requires Memory
by Chris Gehrz
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's sense of justice was informed by a clear view of the path of American history and the knowledge that change toward equality was neither automatic nor unidirectional.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/19/2020
How Jewish History and the Holocaust Fueled Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Quest for Justice
by Gillian Brockell
The passing of the Supreme Court Justice is occasion to review her 2004 address to the U.S. Holocaust Museum.
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9/20/2020
Unlike the Germans We Have Failed to Recognize and Atone for Our Holocausts
by Walter G. Moss
Reconciling America's racial divisions requires honest reckoning with the past, and teaching history as a search for the truth, not an effort to inclulcate patriotism, placate parents, or pander to censorious textbook commissions.
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