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Opinion The Beijing Olympics looks a lot like Nazi Germany’s
For Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Olympics represent an opportunity to turn the world’s attention away from the Uyghur genocide.
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Opinion We can’t fail the Uyghurs as the world failed us
As the Olympics begin, what is at stake is not medals, but the world’s commitment to Never Again. It is hard to fathom that 77 years after the end of the Holocaust, a potentially genocidal state is hosting the Olympic Games. As the athletes parade into the Beijing stadium for the opening ceremonies, the Chinese…
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Letters Jews are just as confused about our race as Whoopi Goldberg is
To the editor: Like Nora Berman, I also felt that Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust remarks were a teachable moment — but I’m a teacher, so to me most moments are. Fifty-plus years as a Jewish educator have taught me that hardly anyone, including many Jews, really understands antisemitism. We have long denied that we are a…
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News Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who fought Holocaust deniers, dies
Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein, who died Jan. 28, at 95, was a modest, unprepossessing man. Whatever celebrity he achieved in life — winning a historic legal campaign against Holocaust deniers, seeing his life dramatized in a television movie starring Leonard Nimoy — he used to further the greater goal of keeping alive the memories of…
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Forverts in English Favorite Heirlooms: Hats from the black market in Uzbekistan
These are the hats that my mother and uncles bought when bartering to survive in Uzbekistan during the Holocaust years. My mother was only twelve years old and her brothers – 14 and 9 years of age – when she and her family left Horodenka, Ukraine in 1941 and took the long treacherous journey to…
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Opinion My family’s worst moment is captured in ‘Maus.’ Its ban gravely disappoints me
Have you ever discovered an incident from your own family’s history in a famous work of art? I have. As a child, my mother would tell me stories about our family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Some of them had happened to her parents, Chaya and Mendel, who had fled to the Soviet Union after the…
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Opinion Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments were wrong — and I’m glad she said them
Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust could not have been more wrong, but I’m glad that she said what she said. In a cringe-inducing segment on The View, Goldberg, during a discussion of the banning of the book “Maus” by a Tennessee school board, said that “the Holocaust wasn’t about race.” Goldberg later apologized, and…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Spain
On Feb. 13, 2021, 300 neo-Nazis marched in Madrid to commemorate a battle fought by the Blue Division, a formation of Spanish volunteers who fought for the Third Reich
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