Holocaust

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• SOURCE: KJZZ
  10/26/2020
  

  Arizona Education Board Votes To Require Students Learn About The Holocaust, Other Genocides

  Esther Basch, a Holocaust survivor, and her daughter Rachel Basch Turet told the board that many of the people they speak with know about World War II, but have no idea of "the extent of horrors that happened to the Jews in Europe.”

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• SOURCE: Forward
  10/19/2020
  

  Sacha Baron Cohen Interviewed a Holocaust Survivor for the New ‘Borat;’ Now Her Daughter’s Suing

  The producers of the "Borat" sequel insist the interview was used to mock Holocaust deniers; surviving relatives argue the use of her story for satirical purposes was deceptive and inappropriate.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/8/2020
  

  Holocaust Survivor's Daughter in Legal Battle With Historian over Claim of Lesbian Liaison with Nazi Guard

  Hájková, who is researching the queer history of the Holocaust, said testimonies by survivors of the camps and legal documents from the guard’s trial led her to conclude that the two women might have had a lesbian relationship, either coercive or consensual. However, she acknowledged that there was no definite proof of this.

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• 10/18/2020
  

  Fraught Family Reunification After the Holocaust

  by Rebecca Clifford

  "A tenth of Europe's pre-war population of Jewish children survived the Holocaust. Many sought and achieved reunification with their families, but reunification did not usually end the trauma endured by this "fragment of an entire generation."

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10/5/2020
  

  The German Model for America

  West German society intially sought to repress evidence of the Holocaust and Nazi crimes, preserving a myth that German civilians were also victims. The work of owning up to those crimes took decades and encountered bitter resistance. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10/1/2020
  

  “Shocking Levels of Ignorance”? A Closer Look at the Survey of Millennials' Holocaust Awareness

  A recent survey claimed to show widespread ignorance about the Holocaust among young American adults, but its methods may not support its most sensational conclusions. Regardless, other surveys show that Americans value learning about the history of the Holocaust. Educators should capitalize by encouraging students to go beyond memorizing facts to understanding the processes of ethnic vilification, political violence and genocide.

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  9/22/2020
  

  RBG, Historian: Why Justice Requires Memory

  by Chris Gehrz

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg's sense of justice was informed by a clear view of the path of American history and the knowledge that change toward equality was neither automatic nor unidirectional.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/19/2020
  

  How Jewish History and the Holocaust Fueled Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Quest for Justice

  by Gillian Brockell

  The passing of the Supreme Court Justice is occasion to review her 2004 address to the U.S. Holocaust Museum. 

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Unlike the Germans We Have Failed to Recognize and Atone for Our Holocausts

  by Walter G. Moss

  Reconciling America's racial divisions requires honest reckoning with the past, and teaching history as a search for the truth, not an effort to inclulcate patriotism, placate parents, or pander to censorious textbook commissions.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/16/2020
  

  Why Do Women Change Their Stories Of Sexual Assault? Holocaust Testimonies May Provide Clues

  by Allison Sarah Reeves Somogyi

  Despite the horrific frequency of sexual abuse of women during the Holocaust and during World War II, stigmas attached to victims encouraged survivors to self-censor in their testimonies. The historical record may help to understand the behavior of victims today.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  9/16/2020
  

  Study: More Than One in 10 Americans Under 40 Thinks Jews Caused the Holocaust

  A survey by the Claims Conference, an organization that coordinates restitution for Holocaust victims, showed most younger Americans are aware of the Holocaust, but there are substantial pockets of ignorance, denial, and antisemitic explanations. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  How an American TV Mini-Series Helped the Germans Acknowledge the Holocaust

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  An American television minseries overcame initial skepticism by German authorities to rouse public conscience about the Holocaust and the complicity of ordinary Germans with persecution and genocide. Americans hesitant toward "political" popular culture should consider its contributions to truth and reconciliation.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/4/2020
  

  A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau

  For two years, a prisoner in the German concentration camp kept a journal that would later be used to convict those who had persecuted him and killed his fellow prisoners.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/27/2020
  

  The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives

  by David I. Kerzer

  Newly available Vatican documents, reported here for the first time, offer fresh insights into larger questions of how the Vatican thought about and reacted to the mass murder of Europe’s Jews, and into the Vatican’s mindset immediately after the war about the Holocaust, the Jewish people, and the Roman Catholic Church’s role and prerogatives as an institution.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/28/2020
  

  Unsealed Archives Give Fresh Clues to Pope Pius XII’s Response to the Holocaust

  Reports by historian David Kertzer that documents in the Vatican archives reflect on the antisemitism of Pope Pius XII and his advisors have sparked countercharges by church historians that reports based on newly available sources will give priority to sensational findings. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/29/2020
  

  Records From Once-Secret Archive Offer New Clues Into Vatican Response To Holocaust

  Historian David Kertzer has published work based on newly available documents from the Vatican's archives, which suggests Pope Pius XII was motivated by political concerns to accept persecution of Europe's Jews and obstructed the reuniting of Jewish orphans with their families after the war.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/26/2020
  

  Ancestry Promises Holocaust Records Will Be Free

  The U.S.C. Shoah Foundation has partnered with the genealogy giant, and an initial rollout faced a glitch. But some survivor families don’t want their histories public.

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  

  US Holocaust Survivor Who Spent Decades Fighting For Family’s Looted Art Dies

  Family of biochemist and tabletop designer Martha Nierenberg, 96, says they’ll continue legal battle for art collection, stolen by the Nazis and still held by Hungary.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/23/2020
  

  Nazi Concentration Camp Guard Convicted over 5,232 Murders

  A 93-year-old former SS guard has been found guilty of accessory to the murder of 5,232 people at a Nazi concentration camp in the final days of the second world war.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7/19/2020
  

  The Holocaust Survivor Hoping To Change American Police Culture

  Psychologist Ervin Staub has pioneered active bystander training to limit violence between police and the public.