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Culture Holocaust Survivor’s Piano Teaches A Lesson In Shared Humanity
When Shlomo Margaliot was 15 years old, his mother sewed a stack of Reichsmarks into his shirt and sent him on the most important errand of his young life: He was to purchase four tickets for a ship to Palestine, where the family planned to escape from Nazi Germany. But when Margaliot reached the ticket…
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Fast Forward The Holocaust Is Barely Mentioned In New World War II ‘Call Of Duty’ Game
The latest Call of Duty video game, centered on World War II, barely mentions the Holocaust or Jews, Mashable reported. The only reference to the Holocaust is during a 38-second cutscene in which the narrator talks about seeing things that “stayed with me forever.” “I thought I knew what cruelty was; I didn’t know anything,”…
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Opinion It’s Not The ADL’s Job To Tell Comedians What’s Funny
Last Saturday night, Larry David delivered a monologue on Saturday Night Live (SNL) that included jokes about Harvey Weinstein and picking up women in a concentration camp, among other things. Many publicly denounced the monologue as heresy. Some went so far as to insist that no one should ever make another Holocaust joke ever again;…
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Fast Forward 12 Holocaust Memorial Stones Swiped On Eve Of Kristallnacht Anniversary
German police have launched an investigation into the theft of at least 12 inscribed metal memorial stones embedded in the pavement in Berlin to commemorate Nazi victims. The stones, called “Stolpersteine,” bear the names of the victims and are set in the ground in front of the last address where they lived before being murdered…
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Fast Forward How A Pendant From Sobibor Reunited A Jewish Family
BERLIN (JTA) – In late 1943, the Germans were desperate to cover all traces of their death camp in Sobibor, Poland. They demolished buildings, bulldozed the evidence, planted trees. More than 70 years later, archaeologists led by Yoram Haimi of the Israel Antiquities Authority set about excavating the site, uncovering gas chambers, mass graves —…
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Fast Forward Russian Official Falsely Claims They Saved Bulgarian Jews From Deportation
(JTA) — Condemning an anti-Semitic attack on a Soviet Army monument in Bulgaria, a Russian government official erroneously said her country’s soldiers saved the Jews of Bulgaria from deportation to Nazi camps. The graffiti spray-painted on the Soviet Army monument in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia on Oct. 31 read “100 years Zionist occupation.” Russian…
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Life How Scientists Deciphered Wrenching Lost Letters From Doomed Jews At Auschwitz
Marcel Nadjary, a Jewish soldier in the Greek army, was 27 years old when he was captured by the SS and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. There, he was tasked with the job of a Sonderkommando — transporting the bodies of gassed victims from gas chambers to crematoria. “I am not afraid of dying,” he…
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Opinion Is it ever OK to make Holocaust jokes?
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