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Fast Forward ‘They’re all sons of bitches’: Auschwitz survivor voices support for Chicago protesters
As protests against police brutality took place in hundreds of cities over the weekend, a candid photo of an Auschwitz survivor voicing support went viral. Noah Toly, an urban studies professor who originally posted the photo, was attending a protest in his hometown of Wheaton, Ill., when a passing car flagged him down. In the…
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News The federal government is now funding Holocaust education, but does it actually work?
With the passage and signing of the Never Again Education Act, the federal government is funding Holocaust education for the first time. As asserted in the very name of the law, the politicians and Jewish organizations who supported the bill and hailed its recent signing by President Trump say education can actually help prevent violent…
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Fast Forward Trump to sign bill granting $10 million for Holocaust education
President Trump is set to sign a bill on Thursday providing millions of dollars in grants for Holocaust education, Jewish Insider reported. The bill, called the Never Again Education Act, was passed by the House of Representatives in January and by the Senate earlier this month. It will provide $10 million over five years in…
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Fast Forward Germany urged not to honor Holocaust rescuer with murky record
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — More than 200 people, including a Dutch chief rabbi, are protesting plans in Germany to honor a Holocaust-era official who is said to have both saved and doomed Jews. The call came in a letter that the German ambassador to the Netherlands received Thursday from Hans Knoop, a Dutch-Jewish journalist. It concerned…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Education Funding Bill passes Senate
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Senate unanimously approved $10 million in funding for Holocaust education in American schools. The vote Wednesday approving the Never Again Education Act, coming after overwhelming approval for the same bill in the House of Representatives in January, sends the bill to President Donald Trump, who is expected to enact it….
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Fast Forward Infowars lawyer: Nazis ‘sold’ concentration camps as quarantine
Robert Barnes, the lawyer who represented conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a case against parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, likened the establishment of quarantine measures to Nazis rounding up Jews to bring them to concentration camps. “Know how the Nazis first sold concentration camps? They called it a quarantine. #ConstitutionOverCoronavirus” said…
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Fast Forward Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews reveals an epic WWII story
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — At 100 years old, Jozef Walaszczyk is Poland’s oldest living rescuer of Jews. He was fortunate enough just to survive World War II. As a partisan fighter who specialized in smuggling arms in Nazi-occupied Poland, Walaszczyk assumed that the Gestapo would catch up with him at some point. He just expected it…
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News I went on Holocaust pilgrimage as an adult. A virtual March of the Living isn’t enough.
Through the dark forest, my parents and I inched our way over rocks and twigs, to a clearing surrounded by a short fence edged with unlit candles and flowers, some fake, some wilting. My feet pressed into the spongy weeds as our group gathered to hum a niggun, then say Kaddish. Huddled near my parents…
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