Holocaust

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  11/9/2021
  

  MA Jewish Leaders: COVID Mandates Nothing Like Holocaust

  "When COVID deniers and people who refute data-driven public health policy wrongly invoke the Holocaust, they pervert history, trivialize the memories of victims and survivors, and desensitize people to the monstrous atrocities that occurred."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/6/2021
  

  Germany to Dedicate Additional $767M for Holocaust Survivors

  Russian Jews who were subjected to the brutal siege of Leningrad, and subjected to Nazi propaganda that encouraged other Russians to blame them for the city's suffering, are among those offered new pensions. 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  10/10/2021
  

  Latvia Grants Holocaust Restitution, Denies Responsibility

  Many Latvians today insist that their nation was a victim of Nazi aggression, rather than complicitous in antisemitic atrocities. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  10/7/2021
  

  Anne Frank's Complete Manuscripts Available Online for First Time

  "In addition to providing historical context, the digitized edition delves into the material details of the manuscripts, from the writing materials Frank used to the annotations and photographs she added to her diary."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/5/2021
  

  A Tech-Savvy Holocaust Memorial in Ukraine Draws Critics and Crowds

  “I grew up with war stories from my grandparents’ generation,” said Andrej Umansky, a German historian with Ukrainian ancestry working for the private initiative, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. “But students today don’t have the same connection.... To talk about the Holocaust is the same as talking about ancient Rome.”

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• SOURCE: Forward
  9/13/2021
  

  A Fringe Group Attacked Anne Frank; A Writer Reflects on How Her Story Became Central to School Lessons

  "Something has gone wrong if the diary is taught widely while our current struggles with racism are verboten in schools. I took a deep dive into how her story has been studied, taught, rewritten — and exploited."

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• 8/15/2021
  

  Educating Teen Holocaust Survivors Holds Lessons for Teaching after Trauma

  by Bernice Lerner

  The author's mother survived Bergen-Belsen and was relocated to an experimental school in rural Sweden. Can her experiences and those of other young women students (and their teachers) shed light on the challenges of educating traumatized children?  

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• 8/15/2021
  

  Prologue to Annihilation: An Interview with Stephen Norwood

  by Eunice G. Pollack

  Stephen Norwood's new book focuses on the response of British and American Jews to rising antisemitism in the early 1930s, a period less frequently studied by Holocaust historians than the years after Kristalnacht.

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• 8/1/2021
  

  "Without Pressure from Germany": Hungary's Revisionist History of the Deportation of 18,000 Jews

  by Karl Pfeifer

  The Hungarian government has sought to deny and obscure its responsibility for the deportation of Jews beginning in 1941. 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Currents
  7/28/2021
  

  Selling the Holocaust?

  Writer Menachem Kaiser discusses the genre of Holocaust writing and the engagment of the generation of grandchildren of survivors with Jewish Currents editors Arielle Angel and Maia Ipp. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  7/27/2021
  

  Should Rep. Lauren Boebert Visit Auschwitz after her Comparison of COVID Mandates to the Holocaust?

  "The Holocaust used to be out of bounds in political discourse because its enormity shocked the world—at least the free world. The original enforcer of this norm was conscience."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/18/2021
  

  Children of the Holocaust Who Are Anonymous No More

  Researchers using digital enhancement have been able to identify some passengers filmed on a train transporting them to concentration camps; some of those identified are survivors. 

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• 5/9/2021
  

  Reflections on Russia's "Victory Day"

  by Nadya Williams

  Russia's observance of Victory Day prompts reflection on the ways Holocaust survivors and their descendants lived lives shaped by this trauma. 

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• SOURCE: Jerusalem Post
  5/2/2021
  

  World War II Mass Grave of Holocaust Victims Uncovered in Belarus

  "The head of the State Forensic Examination Committee of Belarus, Alexei Volkov, said the investigation team will work to identify the bodies at the site."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/26/2021
  

  My Grandparents’ Immigration Lies Shaped My Father’s View of Justice

  by Daniela Gerson

  "My father knew all too well what happens when legal pathways do not exist for people to enter this country: They find alternative ways in, just as his own family had."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  

  COVID Protesters Must Stop Exploiting Symbols of the Holocaust

  by David M. Perry

  "We all need to keep asserting basic truths: vaccinations are safe, public health measures are often complicated and require tradeoffs that we need to be transparent about, and these people cosplaying Holocaust victims are dangerously trivializing the history of the Holocaust."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/18/2021
  

  My Grandfather Fled the Nazis. I Moved to His Old Neighborhood

  by Laura Moser

  The writer reflects on the meaning of her journey as an American Jew to first claim German citizenship and then move to the town her grandfather had fled. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  4/15/2021
  

  Scholars Fear Impact of Poland's Law on the Holocaust

  Poland's right-wing government has sought to promote a narrative of national victimhood by the forces of Nazism and Communism. Historians who study the participation or complicity of Poles in the Holocaust face a threat of legal action that historian Audrey Kichelewski says is chilling. 

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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."