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Culture ‘I’d tell myself I could absorb into white America’: Probing assimilation and the Holocaust, in a graphic memoir
‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz’ is a funny and harrowing account of Shoah survivors and their descendants
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Culture Did ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ inspire Raoul Wallenberg’s Holocaust heroism?
Wallenberg saw an anti-Nazi remake about the superhero with a double life. ‘Pimpernel’ also inspired Stan Lee and Larry David
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Fast Forward Antisemitism and protests in the United States trigger PTSD in Holocaust survivors
“A lot of these fears were still there under the surface, and now they’re coming back up,” said the director of a group that helps survivors
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Culture In a young boy’s diary, a record of how Jews lived to the fullest, even in the face of death
YIVO’s new online exhibition tells the story of cultural life in the Vilna ghetto
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Fast Forward 7 Holocaust museums condemn vandalism against one of their own after police say it wasn’t a hate crime
“The senseless scapegoating of Jews did not begin or end with the Holocaust. It’s been happening for thousands of years, and while the pretext may change, the antisemitic motivation is the same,” the seven centers said in a joint statement Monday
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Film & TV Eichmann’s judgment — through the eyes of those who burned his body
Jake Paltrow speaks about his Hebrew-language film ‘June Zero’
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Fast Forward 102-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer is Vogue Germany’s latest cover model
Friedländer, a celebrity in Germany, was photographed in luxury clothing at a botanic garden in Berlin
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Theater His family survived the Holocaust. He survived long COVID. It’s Josh Fox’s ‘survivor’s obligation’ to fight the oil industry
In ‘The Edge of Nature,’ the Oscar nominee uses folk song to warn us about climate change
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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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Fast Forward Israel’s proposed wartime budget would slash benefits for new immigrants
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Fast Forward ‘Wanted’ posters at U of Rochester target Hillel director, Netanyahu’s brother and others with ‘ties’ to Israel
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Fast Forward Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco will close for a year, citing financial woes
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