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Fast Forward Instagram For 13-Year-Old Holocaust Victim Aims To Reach Younger Generation
A new Instagram account is dedicated to educating younger generations about the Holocaust, the Associated Press reported. Eva. Stories is based on the journal of real 13-year-old Jewish victim Eva Heyman, one of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Mati Kochavi, an Israeli high-tech billionaire and descendent of victims, survivors and educators,…
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Life Growing Up With Mengele
Joseph Mengele has always loomed large in my family. His name is often evoked at the family dinner table or on a Shabbat afternoon when we gather in my grandparents’ living room. No one wants him there — yet somehow he surfaces all the same. Childhood sleepovers at my grandparents’ home evolved similar traits. To…
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Culture They Were German. They Defied Hitler. But What Did They Accomplish?
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule By Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis Dutton, 542 pages, $30 The most famous episode of German resistance to the Nazis is Operation Valkyrie, the unsuccessful July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler and install a constitutional government to negotiate the end of the war. That joint civilian-military…
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Fast Forward Alabama Pro-Life Law Compared Abortion To Holocaust
Update, May 16: The combined bill was passed by the state legislature and signed into law on Wednesday, May 15 by Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. (JTA) — Alabama state lawmakers drew comparisons between the Holocaust and abortion in bills introduced earlier this month. Sen. Greg Albritton and Rep. Terri Collins, both Republicans, introduced matching bills…
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Fast Forward Chemistry Professor Takes Leave After Quizzing Students On Nazi Gas Chambers
A chemistry professor at Middlebury College in Vermont has taken a leave of absence after asking students in a test to calculate the lethal dose of poison gas used by the Nazis in the Holocaust. The test, issued at the beginning of the month, described hydrogen cyanide as “a poisonous gas, which Nazi Germany used…
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News A Frail Survivor’s Idiosyncratic Collection Of Holocaust Artifacts Needs A Home
What do you do with 665 pieces of the Holocaust? That’s the question facing Edie Mermelstein, the daughter of survivor, human rights activist and collector of Holocaust artifacts Mel Mermelstein as the latest Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – approaches on May 1. Since 1972, Mel has displayed his pieces as a teaching tool…
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Fast Forward Arkansas College Honors Alleged Holocaust Denier With Scholarship
The Anti-Defamation League is alleging that a professor at an Arkansas college, who left money for a scholarship in his name, was a committed Holocaust denier, Insider Higher Ed reported. Michael Arthur Link was a professor of history at Arkansas Tech University for 51 years, until his death in 2016. He left $190,000 in his…
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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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