News for Holocaust Awareness Are there now memory communities in Holocaust discourse?The controversy around Yad Vashem’s directorate chairman suggests that Holocaust discourse is deteriorating into polemical argument. Op-ed. Sweden allocates $1.1 million to start work on its first Holocaust museumSwedish Culture Ministry to fund collecting documents and interviewing Holocaust survivors to make up Holocaust museum’s exhibits. Lithuanian nationalist accused of murdering Jews touted as heroIn Lithuania, lawmakers want to dedicate 2021 to honoring an alleged perpetrator of Holocaust pogrom. The Israeli Instagram-based feature commemorating the Holocaust, wins the 'Internet Oscar'Instagram story animating biography of 13-year-old girl who was murdered in Auschwitz wins Webby Award for 'Best Use of Stories.' Holocaust questions and answersA rabbi, educator and author, known for his unrelenting fight for justice and against antisemitism faces his students' questions with honesty and clarity. Defining the Holocaust for future generations: Not just GenocideGenocide, defined as partial murder, has occurred numerous times in history, but the Holocaust was unique in that it was the official purpose of a national government which attempted to annihilate an entire people. Pomp and circumstanceAs touching as all the speeches for Jews six feet under, the abstaining, Iran-supporting, Abbas-funding Europeans would look authentic if they ended their anti-Israel bias, instead of wiping off that single crocodile tear to the sound of Hatikvah. Holocaust abuseNew developments in classic antisemitism include many examples that concern the Holocaust and its history. Call to countries: Don't shake off the pastMinisters from 34 countries gather to ratify their commitment to fight against historical revisionism and growing anti-Semitism. The unknown story of the man who foiled Nazi plans, saving thousandsThe story of Hans Calmeyer's success in saving more people than Schindler did was unknown, until one of the people he saved researched and wrote the new book "Shedding our Stars," a tribute to a brave German lawyer who avoided the spotlights. The Mufti’s meeting with Hitler in BerlinThe Oriental Service station featured antisemitic propaganda cleverly mixed with Arab music and passages from the Koran, all supervised by the mufti. New Oregon law makes Holocaust education mandatoryLaw inspired by teen's friendship with 92-year-old Holocaust survivor mandates Holocaust education for all public school students. An open letter to AOC: Camps, cages and a bissele YiddishAOC, your absurd suggestion that the United States has established concentration camps in Texas, defames America and the compassionate American people. Jewish survival after the HolocaustWhen Holocaust survivors will no longer be around, and when there is no more opportunity to let children and educators hear firsthand testimony of the Holocaust, will the Holocaust be just another event studied in world history classes? A ballad in the key of 4GAt issue is the question of whether the next generation of Jews will walk furtively looking over their shoulder, or boldly toward a gleaming horizon. Rescuing Jews, despite FDRSome 190,000 quota places from Germany and Axis- occupied countries sat unused during the Holocaust years, because the Roosevelt administration deliberately suppressed immigration below the levels permitted by law. 'Our mission in Poland will never end'Polish Ambassador to Israel delivers message in Hebrew on Holocaust Remembrance Day asking if 'memory' is enough. Canadians don’t know basic Holocaust facts, survey findsHalf of Canadians cannot name a single Nazi concentration camp, according to new study. Rio mayor raises Holocaust awarenessMarcelo Crivella, mayor of Rio de Janeiro, gathers entire staff for #WeRemember photo in global movement to raise Holocaust awareness. Preserving stories of Holocaust survivorsA recent survey found that “many adults lack basic knowledge” of the Holocaust. How can the world keep remembering? Can Holocaust education combat antisemitism?Michel Gourary discusses how spreading Holocaust awareness actively combats antisemitism at EJA conference in Brussels Germany loses Holocaust reminder as survivors dwindleAs the numbers of Holocaust survivors dwindle, Germany struggles with how to pass their message to the next generation. Exclusive discussion honors 75th anniversay of Warsaw Ghetto RrevoltA film called Uprising and a renewed curriculum trace the rebellion that lasted longer than the time Poland held out against the Nazis. 'Inappropriate' use of Holocaust term 'shameful and wrong'ZOA says Parkland survivor’s use of Never Again in book title ‘trivializes the Holocaust.’ Greeks delve back into Thessaloniki's Jewish heritageGreece pushes Holocaust history, tourism, in hopes that younger generation will learn the dangers of racism, anti-Semitism. VP Pence's Holocaust tweet defended by Rabbinic groupRabbinic group calls to credit the Vice President’s 'Outstanding Friendship.' Are there miracles in the midst of tragedy?Can we celebrate miracles no matter the circumstances? Liberals gloat over Sean Spicer’s terrible mistakeSpicer apologized, but that won't satisfy liberals, who have yet to stop trivializing the Holocaust by comparing Trump to Hitler. Opinion. US Holocaust Museum to present Merkel with Elie Wiesel awardUS Holocaust Memorial Museum will bestow its highest honor, the Elie Wiesel Award, on German Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
