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What did we know about the Holocaust at the time? Long Branch library reveals the story

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONG BRANCH -- Just what did Americans know about the Holocaust? How did they find out about it? Could anything more have been ...

At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust

As mourners gathered on May 12 for the funeral of Abraham Foxman, they were saying goodbye not only to one of the most ...

TCCL hosts panel discussion about civic engagement as part of "Americans and the Holocaust" exhibit

The Tulsa City-County Library hosted a panel discussion about the importance of civic engagement within democracy as part of ...
Education Week

Teaching the Holocaust Is Daunting—But Critical

This Friday, Jan. 27, we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camps, commemorating ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide’s Oldest Victims?

A new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital ...
Israel National News

UN envoy tells Germany to 'forget the Holocaust'

UN special envoy Francesca Albanese, known for her hostility to Israel, calls on Germany to 'free itself from the historical ...
The Forward on MSN

Interviews with Holocaust survivors reveal the richness of Yiddish

Many people today prize the Yiddish of native speakers who grew up in Eastern Europe before World War II, viewing it as a ...
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The Holocaust was real, it happened and we shouldn’t forget it | Column

On Jan. 27, 1945, elements of the Soviet Army’s 1 Ukrainian Front entered Auschwitz-Birkenau. They discovered overwhelming evidence of mass murder: four large-scale gas chambers, four crematoria with ...

Holocaust Museum LA will reopen as part of the new $70-million Goldrich Cultural Center

After a nearly eight-month closure and a $70-million campus expansion, the Holocaust Museum LA will reopen as part of the ...
Psychology Today

The Faulty Heuristics of Holocaust Denial

A disturbing number of people either reject the Holocaust as historical fact or doubt that it was so extreme. As mentioned here previously, one national study in the U.S. found that nearly two-thirds ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the Definition of Holocaust Survivor Has Changed Since the End of World War II

Simcha and Leah Fogelman both endured World War II and took two different paths of surviving the Holocaust. Photo courtesy of Eva Fogelman; Map via Wikicommons; Illustration by Shaylyn Esposito Simcha ...
Decider

Where to Watch Ken Burns’ ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

Discover What’s Streaming On: Ken Burns’ latest docuseries, The U.S. and the Holocaust, dives into what Americans were actually doing during the Holocaust. The six-hour, three-part series is directed ...