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Opinion The best way to remember the Holocaust? Preserve our American democracy.
My late mother, a Polish Holocaust survivor, was always cautious, even in the face of positive events. If you predicted something good would happen, she would utter the Yiddish word “kinehora,” which means “to ward off the evil eye.” In essence, she did not want something discussed, lest it may not happen. Given the traumas…
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Opinion Holocaust education is essential — but we have to reimagine it
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, exists as an annual opportunity for the global community to commemorate the victims of the horrific crimes committed by the Nazis and their supporters — and to learn about them. Remembrance means little without education, and this year, as far-right extremism has reached new peaks both domestically with the…
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News ADL: Facebook fails to remove Holocaust denial despite ban
Would you consider a video about “Holohoax tales” or an Instagram post captioned “#HolocaustIsaLie” to be Holocaust denial content? Facebook wouldn’t. Facebook declined to remove Holocaust denial content that was pointed out to the platform, saying it did not violate its terms and conditions despite a ban on such material enacted in October of 2020,…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Estonia
The Sinimäed Hills memorial, erected in 1999, has become the site of annual gatherings to honor the SS
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Hungary
Hitler ally Miklós Horthy has a bust in Budapest, Csókakő, and Kenderes
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Lithuania
Lithuania has installed monuments to Jonas Noreika and Kazys Škirpa, figures who are still celebrated by the country's far-right
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in North Macedonia
In 2019, the United Macedonia Diaspora petitioned the U.S. State Department for aid in pressuring North Macedonia to remove their memorials
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Romania
Octavian Goga is honored throughout Romania for his poetry. But as prime minister, he stripped a third of Romanian Jews of their citizenship
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