Holocaust

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  8/31/19
  

  Germany asks for forgiveness as Poland marks 80th anniversary of World War II

  Germany’s president asked for forgiveness for his country on Sunday for the suffering of the Polish people during World War Two as Poland marked 80 years since the Nazi German invasion that unleashed the deadliest conflict in human history.

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• 9/1/19
  

  Can testimony against Epstein still have an impact without him present?

  by Norman J.W. Goda

  The 1987 trial of Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie offers valuable historical context to how victim testimony without the accused present can still have a powerful impact.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/28/19
  

  A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room

  The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/25/19
  

  The Weaponization of History

  by Wilfred M. McClay

  Ignorantly invoking slavery or the Holocaust is an affront to those who seriously study the past.

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• 8/28/19
  

  The Rabbi, the Telegram, and the Holocaust

  by Rafael Medoff

  Seventy-seven years ago today, a telegram bearing a horrifying and unforgettable message reached America’s foremost Jewish leader. It revealed the first comprehensive details about the systematic mass murder that would come to be known as the Holocaust

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• SOURCE: Irish Central
  8/2/2019
  

  German historian who made up WWII Holocaust survivors found dead in Dublin

  Sophie Hingst, a German blogger and historian who had studied at Trinity College Dublin, was found dead in her Dublin apartment on July 17.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/2/2019
  

  Ancestry Digitizes Millions of Holocaust Records

  Some say it’s a play for customers; others say that’s irrelevant because anyone can search the documents at no cost.

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• 8/4/19
  

  FDR's Token Jewish Refugee Shelter

  by Rafael Medoff

  Granting temporary refuge was a way of addressing the life-and-death crisis that Europe’s Jews faced, without incurring the wrath of those who opposed permanent immigration.

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• 7/28/19
  

  Racism in America: What We Can Learn from Germany’s Struggle with Its Own Evil History

  by James Thornton Harris

  If slavery is the "interstate highway system of the American past," it has yet to appear on the cultural road map of most Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/25/19
  

  Last Polish Inmate From 1940 Transport to Auschwitz Dies

  The Germans caught Albin in 1940 as he fled occupied Poland to join Polish armed forces abroad.

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• 7/17/19
  

  The Truth About the Holocaust and Holocaust Education

  by Ira Bedzow and Stacy Gallin

  A high school principal was removed from his position after refusing to admit that the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event.” This is not only unacceptable, it is irresponsible. One does not need to be a professional historian to know that the Holocaust occurred.

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• SOURCE: Washington Examiner
  7/9/19
  

  Roosevelt versus the refugees: One FDR policy that Bernie Sanders never mentions

  by Rafael Medoff

  Sanders favors a much more liberal U.S. immigration policy. Not Roosevelt. In fact, FDR’s immigration policy was so strict that if Sanders’s father, Eli, had not arrived from Poland before Roosevelt became president, he probably would not have been admitted.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/8/19
  

  Principal Who Tried to Stay ‘Politically Neutral’ About Holocaust Is Removed

  “I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” said the principal of a high school in Boca Raton, Fla.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  7/1/19
  

  An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

  by Omer Bartov, Doris Bergen, Andrea Orzoff, Timothy Snyder, and Anika Walke, et al.

  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum released a statement on June 24 condemning the use of Holocaust analogies. 

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• SOURCE: 60 Minutes
  6/30/19
  

  Video of the Week: What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know

  More than 70 years ago, Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 commanders of the Einsatzgruppen Nazi death squads at trial number 9 at Nuremberg. Now 99 years old, he's the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive today.

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• SOURCE: Eurasia Review
  7/1/2019
  

  Measuring Biological Toll On Brain Function Of Holocaust Survivors

  Survivors showed a significantly decreased volume of grey matter in the brain compared with controls of a similar age who had not been directly exposed via personal or family history to the Holocaust.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  ‘Never again’ means nothing if Holocaust analogies are always off limits

  by Danya Ruttenberg

  Yes, every situation is different. That doesn’t mean we can’t compare them.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/22/2019
  

  Holocaust historians divided over Warsaw ghetto museum

  Director hits back at critics who say the institution, backed by Poland’s populist party, will distort wartime history

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/24/2019
  

  The Holocaust Survivor Who Deciphered Nazi Doublespeak

  The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveal an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.

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• SOURCE: Politifact
  6/20/19
  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the U.S. is running concentration camps. Historians are divided on her statement.

  The historical origins of the term and how some historians interpreted her statement.