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Opinion I didn’t understand Holocaust denial until Oct. 7
My survivor grandmother feared that no one would believe her. Now I know why.
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Film & TV Steve McQueen’s over-4-hour tour of modern and Holocaust-era Amsterdam makes history mundane — and unbearably boring
‘Occupied City’ is a morbid slideshow of buildings that are no longer standing
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Film & TV The song, and the Holocaust survivor, behind the year’s most stunning moment in film
How Joseph Wulf’s Yiddish song ‘Sunbeams,’ composed at Auschwitz, ended up in Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’
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Fast Forward In a shift, Latvia and Lithuania are paying Holocaust survivors and heirs for their stolen property
The Lithuania program is open to applications only until Dec. 31
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News That 98-year-old man on drums at the White House Hanukkah party? A Holocaust survivor fulfilling a dream
President Joe Biden has a history of elevating Holocaust survivors
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Culture The best Jewish books of 2023
Grab one (or several) of these new classics before the new year
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Film & TV ‘Schindler’s List’ is darker — and braver — than you may remember
The film, Schindler’s List, marking its 30th anniversary, has been unjustly dismissed by scholars
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Fast Forward Guy Stern, WWII ‘Ritchie Boy’ who became renowned Holocaust scholar, dies at 101
As a refugee-turned-intellignce operative, Stern grilled Germans in their native tongue
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