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Opinion What happens when nationalism seeps into Holocaust history? Look to Poland
The ruling party of Poland has pushed a nationalist interpretation of the Holocaust that obscures the full picture
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Culture How much is a photo of persecuted Jews worth — and why would someone want to buy it?
A Holocaust image on eBay is generic to most bidders. Unless one of the men in the picture is your cousin.
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Theater Why the inspiring story of a real-life Holocaust hero can’t help us solve modern political problems
The one-man show 'Remember This,' staged by Theater for a New Audience, chronicles the life of Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski
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Film & TV Over 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis. A new film tells 8 of their stories.
Director Julia Mintz interviewed some of the last surviving partisans for her documentary 'Four Winters'
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Culture In Poland, a return to the scene of an unspeakable crime
A journey to Jedwabne, site of the massacre of 1,600 Jews, kindles both anger and a sense of redemption
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Opinion ‘I’m not scared of anything anymore’: what it’s like leaving Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor
'I have nightmares from the memories,' Harry Olmer told me as we walked to Birkenau. 'But I’m not scared of anything anymore.'
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Opinion To memorialize their salvation, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto built a sewer
The Warsaw Ghetto Survivor’s Memorial is designed to look like a sewer — once the source of weapons, of food, of information for Jews stuck in the ghetto.
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Opinion ‘Never forgive and never forget’: Why would a Jew live in Poland post-Holocaust?
On a recent trip to Nozyk Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw, our deputy opinion editor describes how the of the weight of past atrocities affect Jewish perceptions of reality today.
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