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. 

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• 5/25/19
  

  How the Debate Over the Use of the Term ‘Concentration Camp’ was Amicably Resolved in 1998

  by Ralph Seliger

  How the Japanese-American organizers of a museum exhibit at Ellis Island entitled “America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience” came to an amicable agreement with the  American Jewish Committee (AJC).

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• 6/23/19
  

  From "Ghettos" to "Concentration Camps," the Battle over Words

  by Daniel B. Schwartz

  We can and should learn from the Holocaust to fight against racism and dehumanization, mindful of what they can lead to, but we should avoid comparisons that collapse the distance between the Holocaust and current events and result in the trivialization of the former.

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• SOURCE: Midas
  Accessed 6/20/19
  

  Mary Fulbrook Wins Wolfson History Prize 2019 for Revelatory Holocaust Study Reckonings

  Reckonings is an affecting study of the legacy of the Holocaust, exploring the extent to which Nazi persecutors were brought to account, and how myths of justice being done developed in the years following the Second World War.

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• SOURCE: BESA Center
  6/10/2019
  

  New exhibit at museum in Nuremberg gives insight to how Germans remember the Holocaust

  The display at the Documentation Center of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, a museum in Nuremberg, give an indication of the ways in which the German people choose to remember the Holocaust and the era of Nazi rule.

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• 6/9/19
  

  What We Can't Forget As We Remember Anne Frank

  by Rafael Medoff

  Today would have been her 90th Birthday. Here's how FDR could have done more to save Holocaust victims like her.