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News Can New Number Crunchers Predict Upcoming Genocides?
Where will the world’s next genocide take place? Up until now, the idea of predicting such an event with near certainty seemed like a grim pipe dream of somber policy wonks. But if new predictive methodologies now being developed by researchers centered at Dartmouth College bear out, policymakers should be worried right now about Burma….
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Fast Forward Body of Missing Holocaust Scholar Robert Kuwalek Is Found in Ukraine
The body of Robert Kuwalek, one of Poland’s foremost Holocaust scholars, was found days after he had been reported missing in Ukraine. Kuwalek, 47, had been reported missing Thursday while on a visit to Lviv. His body was found over the weekend. The Polish consulate in Lviv confirmed his death, but no details about the…
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Fast Forward Jean-Marie Le Pen Slammed for Pun With Holocaust Overtones
An apparent anti-Semitic pun by former far-right French leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has spurred calls for his prosecution. Le Pen, the founder of the National Front party and currently a legislator, said in a video posted on the party website that “next time we will put him in an oven” when asked about French singer…
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Fast Forward Germans Expand Pension for Ghetto Slave Workers
The German Bundestag unanimously passed legislation approving back payments of so-called ghetto pensions for Jewish survivors. The law, reflecting years of negotiations, was approved by the Federal Cabinet in April and sent to the Bundestag. It requires retroactive payments of a few hundred euros per month going as far back as July 1, 1997. Reportedly,…
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Life Teaching Horror of Shoah Rape With Crochet
Gil Yefman’s TumTum For nearly six months last year, Dr. Rochelle Saidel, founder and executive director of Remember the Women Institute, and artist Gil Yefman met weekly to talk about a topic deemed untouchable by many in their respective communities of academia and art: rape during the Holocaust. Saidel, who along with Dr. Sonja Hedgepeth,…
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Fast Forward Ohio Dedicates ‘Shattered Star’ Holocaust Memorial
The state of Ohio dedicated a Holocaust memorial on the Statehouse grounds in the state capital Columbus. The Ohio Holocaust & Liberators Memorial was dedicated Monday at a ceremony which drew 1,500 people including Holocaust survivors and former U.S. soldiers. The18-foot tall memorial, which resembles a shattered Star of David, was designed by Polish-born architect…
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Fast Forward London Man Who Gave Nazi Salute on Holocaust Day Is Banned From Jewish Neighborhood
A man who gave a Nazi salute and shouted “Heil Hitler” outside a kosher restaurant in London on Holocaust Remembrance Day was banned from the city district for one year. Miroslav Ondrus, 33, a Slovakian national, was barred by a London magistrate’s court from the NW11 district of London, which includes the highly Jewish populated…
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Fast Forward MSNBC Host Toure Sorry For Tweet About Holocaust Survivors
MSNBC host Toure Neblett apologized for a tweet in which he suggested that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust succeeded because they are white. “Late last week, I foolishly got involved in a twitter exchange regarding an article about reparations,” Toure tweeted on Tuesday afternoon in a series of three tweets. “It was a dumb idea…
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