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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."
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SOURCE: NBC News
4/4/2021
How a Chicago Teacher Sparked a 'Memory War,' Forcing Lithuania to Confront its Nazi Past
Siliva Foti's family history project became a book that challeged Lithuania's official narrative about its role in the Holocaust, and exposed her grandfather's active role in the extermination of thousands of Lithuanian Jews.
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4/4/2021
Hidden Stories of Jewish Resistance in Poland
by Judy Batalion
I was fascinated by the widespread resistance efforts of Polish Jews, but equally by their absence from current understandings of the war. Of all the legions of Holocaust tales, what had happened to this one?
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/18/2021
The Nazi-Fighting Women of the Jewish Resistance
by Judy Batalion
"I was raised in a community of Holocaust survivors and had earned a doctorate in women’s history. Why had I never heard these stories?"
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2/20/2021
US Deports 95-Year-Old Former Concentration Camp Guard To Germany
Friedrich Karl Berger, a German citizen, was sent back to Germany this month for serving as a guard of a Neuengamme concentration camp subcamp near Hamburg in 1945.
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SOURCE: My Jewish Learning
2/15/2021
Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges
The work of European Jewish academics at Historically Black Colleges in the United States is an underrecognized part of both Black and Jewish American history; many prominent African Americans were students of refugee professors.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/15/2021
They Survived the Holocaust. Now they’ve Come Together to Endure the Pandemic
A Jewish historical institute in Vienna has worked to protect the health of vulnerable Holocaust survivors, but it's found the work of preserving social contact and sharing stories just as vital.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
3/3/2021
Supreme Court Denies Holocaust Victims’ Property Claims Against Nazi Germany, Hungary
The Supreme Court ruled that despite the evidence of the theft of property from victims of the Holocaust, their descendants could not seek relief against the German government by invoking international law in a U.S. Court.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/27/2021
No More Lies. My Grandfather Was a Nazi
"Suddenly, I no longer had any idea who my grandfather was, what Lithuania was, and how my own story fit in. How could I reconcile two realities? Was Jonas Noreika a monster who slaughtered thousands of Jews or a hero who fought to save his country from the Communists?" writes Silvia Foti.
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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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