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Culture This Mexican diplomat helped Jews flee Hitler. Does that make him Mexico’s Schindler?
Some say Gilberto Bosques was just doing his job. Others call him a hero
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Culture What we mean when we say ‘never again’ depends on where we’re from
An Israeli-American reflects on assimilation and antisemitism after Oct. 7
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Culture How I stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters and traced the stories behind them
The letters were hidden in plain sight at Yad Vashem. Most of their writers’ families had never seen them. Until now.
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Culture Slave and victim of the Nazi regime — the complicated legacy of Bruno Schulz
Benjamin Balint delves into the history of the 'virtuoso of language and image' who was murdered on 'Black Thursday'
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Culture How the horrors of WWII turned the righteous into heroes
In Richard Hurowitz's 'Garden of the Righteous,' normal, decent people face extraordinary dangers to become rescuers
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News At the UN, a ‘Book of Names’ invites visitors to touch the names of more than 4.8 million Jewish Holocaust victims
The idea is "to connect physically with their memories," said Simmy Allen, of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel which created the exhibit
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News The man who saved more Jews than Schindler
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was punished by Portugal for rescuing 10,000 Jews. But their descendants, and Israel, honor his memory
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News New York State to monitor compliance with Holocaust education requirements
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, said in an interview there is still ‘a lot of work to do’ on Holocaust awareness and confronting antisemitism
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