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Culture What happens when you turn the Holocaust into a video game?
Luc Bernard hopes his upcoming video game ‘The Light in the Darkness’ will help combat rising antisemitism in the gaming community and raise awareness among the young about the Shoah.
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News Congressman-elect George Santos lied about grandparents fleeing anti-Jewish persecution during WWII
Genealogy websites show his mother’s parents were born in Brazil, not Ukraine or Belgium, as his campaign website stated
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Film & TV In this overlooked documentary, the son of Holocaust survivors embarks on a seemingly impossible mission
In 'The Presence of Their Absence,' Fred Zaidman searches for evidence of his family's lost story
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Fast Forward Lithuania proposes setting aside nearly $40M for Holocaust survivors and their heirs
Two years ago, Lithuanian lawmakers considered declaring that neither the country nor its leaders could be blamed for participating in the Holocaust
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Fast Forward On Reddit, Kanye superfans finally reach their breaking point
The r/Kanye subreddit is no longer analyzing lyrics — it's educating about the dangers of Nazism
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News The man who saved more Jews than Schindler
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was punished by Portugal for rescuing 10,000 Jews. But their descendants, and Israel, honor his memory
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Fast Forward Flanked by white nationalists, Kanye West claims in podcast that Jews want to ‘lock me up’
West abruptly left the studio after being challenged about his antisemitic views
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Opinion I discovered a long-lost relative who survived the Holocaust in Soviet gulags
Jews who survived under Stalin rather than Hitler are largely absent from mainstream film and literature
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