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Inspired by ‘Hamilton,’ diverse docudrama based on survivor testimony is touring US

A few days after playwright Wendy Kout was asked to create a play about Holocaust survivors, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville...

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Jewish doctors’ secret study of Warsaw ghetto starvation rediscovered 80 years later

Eighty years ago, deep inside a Warsaw ghetto cemetery, Israel Milejkowski gathered fellow physicians with whom he co-authored a clandestine “hunger...

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At Sobibor, a filmmaker unearths Nazi Germany’s attempts to cover up its crimes

Preparing for a coming era without Holocaust survivors, filmmaker Gary Hochman’s riveting new documentary, “Deadly Deception at Sobibor,”...

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Anne Frank’s best ‘helper’ Miep Gies is center of new National Geographic miniseries

Dutch Holocaust rescuer Miep Gies is best known for hiding Anne Frank, but Gies also battled Amsterdam’s German occupiers in ways that never made it...

30.04.2023 40

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Obscure Nazi concentration camp in Latvia put back on map by art professor

A lush park outside Latvia’s capital will soon house a memorial to victims of Nazi Germany’s Jungfernhof concentration camp, which operated on the...

20.04.2023 30

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Yad Vashem to mark 80 years since Warsaw Ghetto Uprising for Yom HaShoah remembrance

Since the Knesset passed a resolution establishing “Holocaust and Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day” in 1951, the understanding of what it means to...

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How Nazi-sympathizing scholars prepared the ideological groundwork for genocide

When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, German universities immediately began a policy of “self-coordination” with their National Socialist...

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After kicking down a Holocaust survivor’s door, a NY landlord becomes her guardian

When Brock Cvijanovich kicked down the door of an elderly tenant’s apartment, he began a relationship that would change both of their lives. The...

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Holocaust-era Dutch ‘diary keepers’ depict horrors outside of Anne Frank’s hideaway

When Anne Frank began to rewrite her diary while in hiding, she was one of thousands of people responding to the Dutch government-in-exile’s wartime...

06.03.2023 40

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How a ‘watchmaker’s daughter’ hid hundreds of Jews beneath the Nazi occupiers’ noses

HAARLEM, the Netherlands — A century before Corrie ten Boom hid Jews behind a false wall in her bedroom, the Dutch woman’s Calvinist grandfather...

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‘Ultra’ podcast depicts little-known Nazi-funded plot to topple US government

By the time William Dudley Pelley called for the forced sterilization of all Jewish males in 1939, the American white supremacist’s “Brown...

08.02.2023 40

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Dutch Holocaust survivor, memorial founder Jacques Grishaver to address UN

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Seven decades after an artist proposed a monument inscribed with 100,000 individual names for each Dutch Jew murdered in...

27.01.2023 50

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Nazi-appointed Jewish Councils largely exonerated in transnational comparative study

For many decades following World War II, the Jewish Councils appointed by Europe’s Nazi occupiers have been blamed for allegedly collaborating in...

26.01.2023 60

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21 never-published photos of Warsaw Ghetto Revolt’s aftermath found in Poland attic

Previously unpublished photographs of the Nazis brutally suppressing the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Revolt were released today by POLIN: Museum of the History...

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Lack of punishment for Holocaust perpetrators examined in British-made documentary

After spending 18 years bringing “Getting Away With Murder(s)” to fruition, British filmmaker David Wilkinson faced wall-to-wall rejections when...

07.01.2023 60

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Street mural project honors unknown ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ in their homelands

In the year ahead, buildings around the world will be festooned with elaborate murals that celebrate “Righteous Among the Nations” who rescued...

09.12.2022 9

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Myths about Auschwitz Jewish ‘Sonderkommando,’ failed rebellion busted in new study

A new monograph on the “Sonderkommando” of Auschwitz-Birkenau dispels myths about the Jewish inmates forced to operate the German death camp’s...

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