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Fast Forward Polish Nationalists Use Anti-Semitic Rhetoric At New York Protest
NEW YORK (JTA) — Polish nationalists protested in New York City against a bill designed to help Holocaust survivors and their descendants reclaim lost property in Poland. Hundreds of people participated in the protest on Sunday in Foley Square and some employed anti-Semitic rhetoric. One protester held a sign calling to the “stop Holocaust industry,”…
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Fast Forward Vintage German Train Car Brought To New York For Auschwitz Exhibit
A vintage German train car — similar to those used to cart Jews to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust — will soon be on display at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, The Associated Press reported Sunday. The eight-decade-old car arrived on Sunday morning and was lowered onto tracks outside the museum in…
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Opinion Stop Appropriating Atrocities To Talk About Russian Meddling
These days, reckless analogies are rampant, and not just in the Donald Trump White House. After the Robert Mueller investigation disproved collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow, the White House sent a letter to media producers, naming six prominent Russian collusion promoters, and asking outlets to consider their trustworthiness when inviting them on. In…
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Culture At Alabama’s Legacy Museum, Echoes Of Holocaust Remembrance
In Berlin, you literally stumble onto the history of the Holocaust. It’s paved into the sidewalks as golden Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, that gleam bright with that nation’s dark history, spelling out the names of Nazism’s victims. Stroll through the Tiergarten, and you’ll see the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism…
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The Schmooze Majority Owners Of Krispy Kreme Will Donate Millions After Discovering Nazi Past
What if: you could have unlimited donuts and soup & salad combos but your family’s name was smeared by the legacy of Naziism? Such is the situation of the Reimanns, one of Germany’s wealthiest families, who are the majority owners of major international eateries Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread and Pret A Manger. After an…
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Fast Forward Still No Apology For Woman Whose Co-Worker Said He’d Put Her In A Gas Chamber
The young woman who accused her co-worker of making anti-Semitic comments at the New York health food store where they worked put out a statement detailing the incident — in which the produce cooler was compared to a gas chamber — and revealing the management’s lack of response. Sarah Shabanowitz, an 18-year-old college student, put out…
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The Schmooze Auschwitz Museum To Visitors: Stop Using Train Tracks For Instagram Photo Opps
A new niche trend has arisen: pensive photos of teens balancing on the cattle car train tracks that lead into the Auschwitz memorial. Makes you nostalgic for the innocent days of concentration camp selfies and innocent games of Swastika beer pong, doesn’t it? The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has posted a frustrating plea on social media…
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Fast Forward That Time Teenage Beto O’Rourke Interviewed A Neo-Nazi
As a teenager in the late 1980s, presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was part of a famous hacking collective called the Cult of the Dead Cow, Reuters reported Friday. Among his exploits: Publishing an interview with a Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi. Transcripts from the taped interview, which O’Rourke published under his handle “Psychedelic Warlord” when he was around…
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