A mural of the Simpsons as Holocaust victims should be offensive. It’s actually a stroke of genius
Muralist aleXsandro Palombo's use of ubiquitous cartoon characters startles viewers out of preconceived notions about the Holocaust
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Books The Lublin Yeshiva Library was thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. Then its books started turning up.
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