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News Ken Burns’ PBS documentary ‘The U.S. And The Holocaust’ asks hard questions about how Americans treated Jews and immigrants during wartime
Working with top historians, Burns and his co-directors cover some surprising territory in their retelling of the American response
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Fast Forward Wolf Blitzer, the son of Holocaust survivors, discusses his new CNN special on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Blitzer's tour of the museum airs less than a week after Dana Bash's CNN special on antisemitism
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Fast Forward How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary
“Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” which looks into the stories of people from a small Polish town before the war, traces its inspiration back to a basement in Florida.
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Culture He escaped one ghetto only to find himself imprisoned in another
Santiago Amigorena's novel imagines his grandfather's life in Argentina and the one he left behind in Poland
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Culture The Jewish ‘songs’ of Alain Resnais
A retrospective for the filmmaker’s 100th birthday finds a mixed, but compelling, bag of Jewish content
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Fast Forward NY governor signs Holocaust education bill, citing spike in antisemitism
‘This is not Nazi Germany,’ Kathy Hochul said. ‘I don't want the citizens of my state to live in fear ever’
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Fast Forward GOP nominee for Illinois governor doubles down on Holocaust analogy
‘The Jewish community themselves have told me that I'm right,’ Darren Bailey, who is challenging Democratic incumbent J.B. Pritzker, said
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Fast Forward Leading candidate for Congress invokes Jewish grandfather’s Holocaust murder
Becca Balint, a progressive candidate in the race for Vermont’s sole House seat, attributed her public service to growing up in a family affected by the Holocaust
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Fast Forward ‘Rabbi rebellion’: 33 Orthodox rabbis endorse Harris
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Opinion I was a Bernie supporter. This year, I’m voting Trump. Here’s why liberal Jews like me made the switch
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