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Fast Forward Michigan GOP under fire for Holocaust meme comparing gun control to Nazism
The Republican Jewish Coalition called it ‘absolutely inappropriate and offensive'
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Opinion I shared my father’s letters about Nazi horrors with a high school class
Dad was a WWII spy. I want kids today to know what he saw
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Yiddish World I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right.
The surprising story of Holocaust survivors in rural New Jersey
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News ‘A challenge to the soul of man’: 80 years ago, Hollywood stars pleaded for Europe’s Jews
The audience at the mass memorial overflowed Madison Square Garden, the site four years earlier for a rally of American Nazis
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Culture The ‘grown-up Anne Frank’ remains little known — and there’s a reason for that
Etty Hillesum, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, wrote frankly about her inner life and her love affairs
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Looking Forward How a pair of Sunday school teachers inspired Craig Newmark to give his money away
'They taught me the substance of Judaism,' said Newmark, founder of craigslist. 'They basically set my moral compass.'
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Culture A family and a writer plagued by the aftershocks of Holocaust trauma
in 'The Absent Moon,' Luiz Schwarcz writes of survivor guilt and his own depression
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Fast Forward Albania to build museum to citizens who saved Jews during Holocaust
The Besa Museum will be named after the strict neighborly honor code that Albanians say motivated them to protect their Jewish neighbors during World War II
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