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Culture In New Yorker doc ‘Nina & Irena,’ a director helps his grandmother open up about the Holocaust
Daniel Lombroso sees “Nina & Irena,” his film about his grandmother, as a coda to his 2020 documentary “White Noise”
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Culture Mitch Albom enters new Jewish territory with Holocaust novel ‘The Little Liar’
The bestselling author says he felt an "obligation" as a Jewish writer to tell the story
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Fast Forward The Lancet recommends mandatory Holocaust education to improve medical ethics
British medical journal says doctors’ roles in carrying out Nazi atrocities are a cautionary tale for today
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News On 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Holocaust survivors say they fear familiar antisemitism
"It just brought back so many memories," one Holocaust survivor said about learning about Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel
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Yiddish World New musical will highlight the remarkable creativity of Jews in the ghettos and camps
After the war, partisan fighter Shmerke Kaczerginski visited displaced persons camps and recorded the songs that survivors shared with him.
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Fast Forward Top US Holocaust officials: Oct. 7 massacre creates ‘new momentum’ for restitution
'Those who say, you know, it's just a thing of the past, we're reminded by what's happened in the last few weeks that that's not the case,' said Stuart Eizenstat
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivors press Steven Spielberg to publicly support hostages and Israel
'We do not need another film in 3 years about the horrors of Oct. 7,' wrote David Schaecter, who heads the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA
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Fast Forward Hundreds of Holocaust survivors pose with posters of Hamas hostages in a statement of solidarity
One survivor said the Hamas attack on Israel — and the subsequent explosion of antisemitism since — remind her of her childhood “perfectly"
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Fast Forward ‘Antisemitic hit-and-run squads’: Amsterdam temporarily bans demonstrations after Israeli soccer fans attacked by street mobs
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