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The IHRA does not include Holocaust inversion (saying Israel is acting like Nazis) in its definition of Holocaust distortion. Why the hell not?
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Sheldon Schreter - The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel
Sheldon Schreter – The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel Many Jews and non-Jews, both friends and enemies of Israel, assume that Israel was founded as a result of the Shoah of European Jewry. While the Shoah was indisputably an important
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Obituary: Moshe Taube, renowned cantor and Schindler’s list survivor
Squirrel Hill resident was a ‘giant in the community,’ a leading cantor and prominent witness to Holocaust
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Study: More than one in 10 Americans under 40 thinks Jews caused the Holocaust
Holocaust knowledge particularly low in New York, despite state having the largest population of Jews in the US
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Report: Facebook Doesn’t ‘Recognize Holocaust Denial’ as Anti-Jewish Hate Speech
Facebook logo. Photo: www.shopcatalog.com via Flickr. JNS.org – Facebook, according to an Aug. 10 report, “actively promotes further Holocaust-denial content …
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In historic first, Israel Air Force flies above Dachau camp in Germany
A joint drill by the Israeli and German air forces on Tuesday included a historic flyover above the Dachau concentration
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Fountain dedicated to Holocaust survivors vandalized at Santa Rosa cemetery
Antisemitism, antisemitc incidents and Anti-Zionism anti-semitism anti-semitc
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Never forget? Report warns Holocaust studies neglected in Israel
A new report on Holocaust education in Israel's universities and colleges points out a lack of academics who focus on
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In Tweets, Ex-US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Questions Number of Holocaust Victims
Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Photo: Reuters / Joshua Roberts. A former US congresswoman and notorious anti-Israel activist and conspiracy …
History | History
New Book Reveals a Gripping True Story From Auschwitz | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner
The main gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. In his gripping new book, The Boy …
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Remembering the Holocaust in a post-'sacred survival' era
For several decades, the Holocaust shaped the way American Jews thought about their place in the modern world. For the
Politics | Opinion
Being Fired by Trump Does Not Make You a Holocaust Victim
Government bureaucrats aren’t endowed with a God-given right to work in the executive branch of the United States government. Most of these "victims" will find lucrative work elsewhere.
History | HISTORY
In eastern Europe, when Nazis killed Jews, a 'carnival atmosphere' prevailed
In a new, second book about ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ Father Patrick Desbois depicts in grim detail local bystanders' culpability while Nazis implemented the Final Solution
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‘I Wish I Could Say We Germans Have Understood the Holocaust,’ President Steinmeier Confesses in 75th Anniversary Commemoration Address
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (r) embraces his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin at a Holocaust commemoration event in the Bundestag in …
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Auschwitz survivors: First Jews sent to the Nazi concentration camp were teenage girls
As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Edith Friedman Grosman, who was 17 when she arrived at the Nazi concentration camp, tells her harrowing story in a new book
History | History
Twin sisters were liberated from Auschwitz, but not from Mengele
The experiments to which Yehudit and Lea Csengeri were subjected to by Dr. Josef Mengele have made them afraid of doctors to this day
History | History
Why the Bombing Auschwitz Argument Still Matters
The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.
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Honoring Holocaust victims means fighting anti-Semitism
This week, an extraordinary conference is taking place in Jerusalem: Prime Ministers and heads of state from over 30 countries
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Last Auschwitz survivors speak: 'We haven't won, but we've taught our grandkids'
Heart-wrenching testimonies from survivors living in Israel, as the Jewish state prepares to host world leaders on the 75th anniversary of the death camp's liberation
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Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account minimizes Polish complicity for the Holocaust
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Polish school show gives horrific nod to Nazi gas chambers
A school in eastern Poland recently put on a play with children in concentration camp uniforms being executed in Auschwitz
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Beyond Offensive- My Letter to the Manufacturer of “Auschwitz Ash” Offensive Crayons – Gina Raphael
December 21, 2019 Ms. Alice Cichon Offensive Crayons, LLC 1820 Avenue M Unit #370 Brooklyn, NY 11230 info@offensivecrayons.com Dear Ms. Cichon, Congratulations on starting a new Company. As someone who has been in marketing & merchandising for over 30 ye
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Poland Asks Netflix to Make Changes to Documentary About Nazi Death Camp Guard
Convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk leaves a courtroom in Munich after the verdict in his case, May 12, …
Politics | Opinion
Why Be Nice About the Horrors of the Holocaust? (Judean Rose)
Should we have been more understanding of a teacher who threatened her students with the gas chamber?
Miscellaneous | Judaism
A Psychotherapist’s Shema in Auschwitz - Vaetchanan
What is it about the Shema Yisroel prayer that has inspired so many through the most trying of times and has provided such meaning and purpose to help us survive even the most despairing circumstances?
History | History
Holocaust survivor owes her life to a Nazi officer’s Great Dane
Nina Dinar, 93, has loved dogs since childhood and that saved her in a Nazi labor camp in Poland
Politics | Politics
Milano Comes Under Fire After Comparing Pence to Himmler
Actress Alyssa Milano came under fire on Sunday after comparing Vice President Mike Pence to the architect of the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, with side-by-side pictures on Twitter.
Politics | POLITICS
Holocaust survivor: AOC 'should be removed from Congress'
93-year-old Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg has no time for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statements last week, when she called the southern border’s migrant detention centers “concentration camps.”
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The Long Legacy of the Shoah in Scandinavia – Tablet Magazine
Within the Northern European countries that make up Scandinavia there has been a revival of active scholarship and popular interest into the treatment of Jews during World War II. The subject is very much alive in these countries and much more so than in
Politics | Politics
MENKEN: AOC Is Dividing Americans And Inciting Anti-Semitism
After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used “concentration camps” and “Never Again” together — a unique reference to the Nazi death camps — and then retweeted leftist Jews hoping to justify the linkage while she simultaneously denied that she ever connected them in the first instance, I honestly thought it couldn’t get worse.
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The DC Holocaust Museum Has Now Weighed in on Ocasio-Cortez's Comments
We were all waiting for this one. While it was encouraging to see both Republican and Democratic lawmakers resoundingly reject Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) comparison between immigration detention centers and Holocaust concentration camps, now that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has weighed in, we may finally be able to put an end to this mess.
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WATCH: Holocaust Survivors To AOC: ‘You Are Insulting Every Victim Of The Holocaust’
Two Holocaust survivors slammed socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in a video filmed by Turning Point USA over Ocasio-Cortez's recent remarks about the Holocaust, saying that she was "insulting every victim of the Holocaust."
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Concentration Camps? Stop Hijacking Jewish History | The Jerusalem post
US media has now joined the debate about concentration camps.
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Yad Vashem to AOC: Learn about concentration camps | The Jerusalem post
“I will never apologize for calling these camps what they are,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Wednesday. “If that makes you uncomfortable, fight the camps - not the nomenclature.”
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Americans Against Antisemitism produces handy comparison chart for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The lengths people will go to to protect our freshman class from their own words are astounding.
Politics | The "Squad"
Rashida Tlaib slammed by House GOP over statement that Holocaust gives her 'kind of a calming feeling'
House Republican leaders called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to "take action" against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her "kind of a calming feeling."
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Palestinian Television Claims Images of Holocaust Victims Show Arabs Killed by Jews
A composite image of victims at the Nazi concentration camp of Nordhausen (right) and the same image broadcast by Palestinian …
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On Yom Hashoah - look for YOUR name in the Yad Vashem database, and light a candle for you
To make the Shoah a little more real for you, look up your (Hebrew) name in the Yad Vashem database of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
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92-Year-Old Ex-Nazi Guard Charged With 5,230 Counts Of Accessory To Murder
German prosecutors say they have charged a former Nazi concentration camp guard with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder. The 92-year-old suspect, whose name wasn’t released, is accused of assistin…
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Passover Seder to be held in Warsaw Ghetto for first time in 76 years | The Jerusalem post
Before the Holocaust, approximately one-third of Warsaw was Jewish.
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Study Shows a Third of Americans Think Holocaust Murders Exaggerated
The “Hall of Names” commemorating victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Photo: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons. …
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Allies knew of Holocaust in 1942, 2 years before previously assumed, UN documents prove | The Times of Israel
UK, US, Russia were aware of millions killed by Nazis, new book says, shedding damning light on refusal to take in refugees or try to halt slaughter
History | History
‘The Invisibles’ Tells the Amazing Tale of Four Holocaust Survivors
A scene from “The Invisibles.” Photo: Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment. When death knocked at her door, Hanni Weissenberg refused to …
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Outrage ensues over sausage-museum, hotel and theater plans at site of Buchenwald
Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation said this plan shows a “lack of sensitivity” and a “lack of historical awareness.”
Music | Music
Facebook teams up with Yad Vashem to commemorate Shoah victims online
New project lets online users be randomly matched to one of the 4,800,000 names recorded in Yad Vashem’s central database of Shoah victims.
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The possibility of a new Holocaust with the reincarnation of antisemitism
The era of “never again” is ending in Western Europe, fading in North America and never penetrated the Middle East.
History | History
When Jews caught “Syndrome K,” the Nazis wanted NOTHING to do with them
Jewish lives were saved in World War II due to a brilliant plan by Professor Giovanni Borremeo. "The lessons of my experience were that we have to act not for the sake of self-interest, but for principles." - Dr. Adriano Ossicini, inventor of Sy
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Steven Spielberg urges mandatory Holocaust education
Director, actors, recall filming ‘Schindler’s List’ at special 25th anniversary screening
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One-Third of Americans Don't Believe 6 Million Jews Were Murdered During the Holocaust
Seventy percent of Americans believe people care less about the Holocaust than they used to.
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Polish government cancels scheduled Bennett visit over Holocaust remarks - International news - Jerusalem Post
“The blood of Polish Jews cries from the ground, and no law will silence it. The Government of Poland cancelled my visit, because I mentioned the crimes of its people. I am honored.”
History | HISTORY
Why this Holocaust survivor still wears his concentration camp uniform | New York Post
Ed Mosberg’s hands stay steady as he slips into the striped cotton jacket and matching cap — an outfit identical to one he was issued 75 years ago, as a...
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102-year-old Holocaust survivor reunites with newly discovered nephew | The Times of Israel
Eliahu Pietruszka believed his brother, who escaped Warsaw ghetto, had died in a Russian labor camp, but, generations later, a Yad Vashem genealogy project led to incredible news
History | History
Auschwitz-Birkenau: 4 out of 10 German students don′t know what it was | News | DW | 28.09.2017
Just 47 percent of 14- to 16-year-olds in Germany know that Auschwitz-Birkenau was a Nazi death camp, a survey shows. Its authors cite fewer history lessons as a reason.
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Reconstructed Auschwitz prisoner text details ′unimaginable′ suffering | Germany | DW | 09.10.2017
A newly reconstructed document written in 1944 by a Greek Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz tells of misery "the human mind can not imagine." The text was discovered buried in the ground at the Nazi extermination camp.
History | History
In film, survivor searches for US soldier who liberated him at Dachau | The Times of Israel
New documentary centers on Steve Ross, who was 'transformed' as a boy by an act of kindness in the concentration camp
History | History
The Holocaust's Great Escape | History | Smithsonian
A remarkable discovery in Lithuania brings a legendary tale of survival back to life
News | Interesting Stories
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking - The New York Times
The Germans had vastly more work camps and ghettos than anyone knew.
Miscellaneous | Other Stuff
Charles Krauthammer: The Holocaust and American Jews - NY Daily News
Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for the presidency ever.
History | History
The BBC Flew A Drone Over Auschwitz. What They Caught On Film Sent Chills Down My Spine | Greenville Gazette
Recently, a drone flown by the BBC was flown over the remains of Auschwitz. This was one of the most infamous concentration camps from WWII and the release of the footage is timely, as the
History | History
Israel's Anthem Played on Salvaged Holocaust Violins | The Jewish Standard
Musical instruments stolen and damaged during the Holocaust was a common occurrence, oft forgotten due to the magnitude of the atrocities committed overall upon humans.
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The indelible mark on the Jewish people - Blogs - Jerusalem Post
Yad Vashem, our constant reminder. From year to year, the hard to describe events of the Holocaust are distancing from the present. The people who survived the Concentration Camps, the Crematoria and the unimaginable atrocities, are in the process of leaving this world to take their place next to the Almighty’s heavens.
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SS 'accountant of Auschwitz' going on trial in Germany | The Times of Israel
Oskar Groening, 93, recalls the 'atrocities,' admits feeling they were 'necessary,' and now faces 300,000 counts of accessory to murder
Politics | Media Bias
On Holocaust Memorial Day, BBC Asks 'Is it Time to Lay Holocaust to Rest?
On Int'l Holocaust Memorial Day BBC Tweet suggests it's time to forget the Holocaust; 'BBC has no moral compass regarding Jews or Israel.'
History | History
Holocaust survivor and American rescuer have touching reunion after 70 years
Jewish Scene: Images capture emotional moment as former Dachau prisoner salutes soldier who liberated him; 'I am eternally grateful.'
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Holocaust survivor ADOPTS the grandson of Nazi commandant Rudolf Hoess seventy years after he murdered her parents and s
Eva Mozes Kor, 80, who lives in Indiana in the US, has found the compassion to forgive her Nazi tormentors - and has even unofficially adopted the grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess.
History | History
Auschwitz prisoner No. A7733 finally finds his family - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews
Jewish Scene: Menachem Bodner, a twin survivor of the Mengele experiments, lost his entire family when he was just a little boy. He is still searching for his twin brother, but recently found his first cousins in California thanks to a persistent genealo
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What happened to Anne Frank after the Secret Annex? | The Times of Israel
70 years after their capture, the Frank girls' last seven months in camps is well documented, but still rarely discussed
History | History
Why the Holocaust Occurred in Germany, and Why So Few Resisted (REVIEW) | Jewish
It’s hard to make a new contribution to the field of Holocaust studies, but German historian Götz Aly accomplishes just that in Why the Germans, Why the Jews? His premise is that the origins of the Holocaust were rooted in the specific anti-Semitism