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Fast Forward Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic graffiti
The 1943 protest commemorated by the monument was led by non-Jewish women, most of them married to Jewish men who were detained in a building that had formerly functioned as the Jewish Welfare Administration
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Culture ‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ funnyman Jerry Lewis’ infamously terrible Holocaust movie, is having a new moment. But you still can’t watch it.
A new documentary, an announced remake and an unsealing of archival materials are giving the unfinished movie new life
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News Before this famous Polish bakery ‘opened’ in 1944, it belonged to a Jewish family killed by the Nazis
The third-generation owners of Kuźmiuk Bakery say they only learned of the site’s pre-war history in the past decade
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Fast Forward Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary
Irmgard Furchner had appealed her 2022 conviction of being accessory to more than 10,000 murders at the Stutthof camp
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Politics He’s writing Kamala Harris’ DNC speech. He also wrote a book on Holocaust survivors
Adam Frankel, whose grandparents survived the Nazis, is lead writer for Harris’ acceptance speech
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Politics The ‘Gestapo Game’ at the high school where Tim Walz worked was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject
“Trying to simulate the conditions that victims of the Holocaust experienced was absurd,” Walz wrote in his thesis
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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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