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Fast Forward Congressman Sorry For Auschwitz Selfie Video
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A Louisiana congressman removed and apologized for a video he filmed at Auschwitz likening the threats posed to Jews during the Holocaust to those facing the United States today. “I filmed the Auschwitz message with great humility,” Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican, said Wednesday in a statement sent to JTA by his…
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Fast Forward Who Actually Was Allowed To Film At Auschwitz? Spoiler Alert: Not Spielberg.
After a Louisiana congressman was condemned by the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum for filming at the former concentration camp, the obvious question is when is it okay to film at the historic site. Answer: almost never. Steven Spielberg was denied permission to shoot on the site when he filmed “Schindler’s List,” so instead his crew…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Gas Chamber Video Earns Rebuke For Louisiana Lawmaker
A Louisiana congressman is under fire after filming a five-minute video in and around a gas chamber at Auschwitz in he which he discussed the Holocaust and the need for America to maintain a strong national defense. “The world’s a smaller place now than it was in World War II. The United States is more…
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Fast Forward At 102, Epic Novelist Herman Wouk Looks Back On A Life Well Lived
For Herman Wouk, who turned 102 in May, the “main task” of his life has been using his novels to teach readers about history. “To, so far as I could, fix down in literature what happened in World War II and the Holocaust,” he told CBS Sunday Morning. “That was my main task.” Wouk, who…
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Fast Forward WATCH: The Auschwitz Museum Just Released This Moving Documentary
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum just released a moving documentary that tells the story of the museum’s founding and charts its 70-year history. The museum, which receives over one million visitors each year, was founded in 1947. Although the museum is a beacon of Holocaust education for people around the world, it has a controversial history….
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Fast Forward 95-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Dies While Appealing Conviction
(JTA) — A former Nazi SS guard who was sentenced to five years in prison by a German court for his role as an accessory in the murder of at least 170,000 people in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland has died. Reinhold Hanning’s lawyer told Reuters he found out about his client’s death on Tuesday, and did not…
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Fast Forward Polish Fighter Who Bared Auschwitz Atrocities Gets Warsaw Monument
(JTA) — A monument to a non-Jewish Polish resistance fighter Capt. Witold Pilecki was unveiled in Warsaw. The monument to the man who during World War II allowed himself to be captured and sent to the Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp so that he could report on the atrocities there was unveiled on Saturday in the presence…
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Fast Forward NBA All-Star Ray Allen Visits Auschwitz
Shortly after being sworn in as a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, former NBA champion Ray Allen traveled to Poland this week visit the Auschwitz concentration camp and other Holocaust-related sites. Allen, one of the greatest shooters in basketball history, became passionate about Holocaust education after visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington…
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