Holocaust

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• SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/opinion/disability-nazi-eugenics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
  1/8/20
  

  Before the ‘Final Solution’ There Was a ‘Test Killing’

  by Kenny Fries

  Too few know the history of the Nazi methodical mass murder of disabled people. That is why I write.

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• 12/29/19
  

  Why Holocaust Education Is So Important Today

  by Claudia Moscovici

  The Never Again Education Act is an effort by a bipartisan group of US legislators in both the House and the Senate to promote Holocaust education.

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• 12/18/19
  

  Why FDR Turned Away Jewish Students

  by Rafael Medoff

  American immigration policy was governed by a strict quota system, based on national origins. But the law contained three major exceptions: clergy, professors, and students could be admitted outside the quota restrictions.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/3/19
  

  ‘Well Worth Saving’

  by Scott Jaschik

  Laurel Leff discusses her book on the failure of American universities to rescue scholars seeking to flee Nazi Germany.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 13, 2019
  

  Nazi war crimes evidence comes to the Holocaust museum in Washington

  by Michael E. Ruane

  Newly digitized copies of audio, film and pictures from the Nuremberg trials detail the breadth and depravity of the Holocaust.

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/12/19
  

  The Persecution of the Roma Is Often Left Out of the Holocaust Story. Victims’ Families Are Fighting to Change That

  Today, many Roma communities are still marginalized, but the Holocaust represents an ugly peak in that history of persecution.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  11/11/19
  

  Poland asks Netflix to make changes to documentary about Nazi death camp guard

  Many Poles still refuse to accept research showing that thousands of Poles participated in the Holocaust in addition to the thousands who risked their lives to help the Jews.

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  11/8/19
  

  The little Lutheran lady who battled the Nazis on Kristallnacht

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  That autumn of 1938, the prelude to the Holocaust began. Beginning in the evening of Nov. 9, local bands of Nazi Storm Troopers throughout Germany led a willing populace against their Jewish neighbors.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/8/19
  

  The Forgotten Mass Destruction of Jewish Homes During 'Kristallnacht'

  Attacks on Jewish homes have often been a neglected aspect of "the Night of Broken Glass", until now.

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• 11/10/19
  

  The History Behind a Recently Defaced French Holocaust Memorial

  by Norman JW Goda

  The memorial plaque at 12 rue Sainte-Catherine in the central part of town contained the names of the 86 Jews arrested at that address on 9 February 1943. It was the largest single roundup of Jews in the city. On the plaque, black paint was used to cross out their names. 

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  11/4/19
  

  Rafael Medoff's New Book Suggests new evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans

  In his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Rafael Medoff finds links between the US president’s anti-Japanese stances and his policies against Jews fleeing Hitler.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/5/19
  

  Teenage Rescuer, Now 92, Meets Family She Saved From Nazis

  Melpomeni Dina was reunited with the two surviving members and 40 descendants of the Jewish family she and her sisters helped escape occupied Greece during World War II.

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• 11/3/19
  

  A Holocaust Survivor Tells His Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

  by Max Eisen

  "Once I put on these striped prisoner’s clothes, I felt like I was no longer a human being, only a number."

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• 10/20/19
  

  To Stop The Rise of Nationalism, We Must Remember High-Tech’s Role in Supporting Past and Present Nationalistic Agendas

  by Clyde W. Ford

  Since the dawn of the digital age, nationalism has relied on digital technology.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  9/27/19
  

  The Poignant Wartime Diary of a Jewish Teenager Living in Poland Has Been Published in English

  Renia Spiegel was killed by the Nazis when she was 18 years old.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/24/19
  

  A Slain Jewish Girl’s Diary of Life Under the Soviets and the Nazis

  At a moment when basic agreement over simple truths has become a political battleground and history a weapon, the publication of the book, “Renia’s Diary,” offers a reminder of the power of bearing witness.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  September 21, 2019
  

  An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis

  The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/21/19
  

  An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis

  The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.

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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.