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Antisemitic text was projected onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam

A display alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory was projected onto the former hiding place of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl whose diary notes the persecution her people faced during World War II.

February 11, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde
This undated photo provided by Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial shows Shlomo Perel at his home in Givatayim, Israel. Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, has died. He was 98.

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Shlomo Perel, a Holocaust survivor who inspired the film 'Europa Europa,' dies at 98

Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, has died in Israel.

February 04, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Two young German-Jewish refugees at the porthole of the liner St. Louis finally arrive at Antwerp, after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior to the start of World War II.

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Opinion: A Holocaust remembrance — and lessons we have yet to learn

NPR's Scott Simon wonders why teaching children about the Holocaust is not mandatory in most states and the lessons they are missing.

January 28, 2023
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Political Rewind: As antisemitism goes mainstream, a look at the Jewish history of Georgia

Friday on Political Rewind: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazi Party. But disturbingly, antisemitism is once again being mainstreamed in our politics. Our special panel explores Georgia's Jewish history, marked with both hope and violence.

January 27, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut and
  • Chase McGee
U.S. second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, lays a wreath honoring Holocaust victims at the former Auschwitz site on Friday in Oswiecim, Poland.

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Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, is in Poland and Germany to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and address rising antisemitism around the world.

January 27, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
King Willem-Alexander puts a stone in an act of remembrance when unveiling a new monument in the heart of Amsterdam's historic Jewish Quarter on Sept. 19, 2021, honoring the 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust.

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Survey shows a lack of Holocaust awareness in the country that was home to Anne Frank

The survey commissioned by a U.S.-based group found that the number of Dutch respondents who believe the Holocaust is a myth was higher than in any of the other five nations previously surveyed.

January 25, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This handout negative dated on April 20, 1943, and taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski shows Jewish people being evacuated from the Warsaw Ghetto.

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A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found

The photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a 23-year-old Polish firefighter as the Nazis were brutally crushing the Jewish uprising of 1943. The photos were discovered in a family collection.

January 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Red knitted caps were a grandmother's way of saying, "I love you."

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We asked, you answered: What precious object is part of your family history?

Readers responded with moving stories of past journeys and crises — and keepsakes that remind them of their roots and tie them to their family. Here's a sampling of replies.

November 14, 2022
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  • Marc Silver
Ken Burns' new three-part documentary, <em>The U.S. and the Holocaust,</em> explores what everyday Americans knew — or didn't know — about what the Nazis were doing in Europe. Above, a tenant farmer reads a newspaper in Creek County, Okla., in February 1940.

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Ken Burns connects the past and the present in 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'

Burns' new six-hour series brings World War II history to life — and reminds us that our life, right now, is indeed history in the making.

September 15, 2022
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  • David Bianculli
Jewish townspeople of the village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938.

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'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy

Two documentaries — one involving a pre-WWII home movie, the other dispatches from the Amazon rainforest — have much in common.

August 19, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint news conference following talks with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow on April 8.

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Israel slams Russia's foreign minister for comparing Zelenskyy to Hitler

Israeli officials are calling for an apology after Sergey Lavrov said the Hitler "had Jewish origins." It's the strongest condemnation of Russia by Israel since the war in Ukraine began in February.

May 02, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
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Whoopi Goldberg suspended for 2 weeks over Holocaust remarks

The suspension came a day after Goldberg's comment during a discussion on The View that race was not a factor in the Holocaust.

February 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Online sales of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus" are skyrocketing, and multiple bookstores are giving away free copies to students after a Tennessee school district banned it.

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Why a school board's ban on 'Maus' may put the book in the hands of more readers

Multiple booksellers are donating copies of the Holocaust graphic novel to students in Tennessee and beyond. Online sales are skyrocketing, too.

January 31, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
One of hundreds of letters written during World War II between the Marx family, who’d fled to Arkansas, and their parents in Stuttgart, Germany before they were murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.

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'God Has Truly Blessed You': Atlantan Donates Historic Family Letters To Holocaust Museum

Descendants of Holocaust victims are in a race against time to preserve oral histories and artifacts before the last survivors are gone. One such effort is that of Alli Allen of Atlanta, who is donating hundreds of letters sent by her great-grandparents Blanka and Max Hartstein in Germany to her grandparents Paula Hartstein Marx and Hugh Marx, who’d fled to the United States in 1938, just one week before Kristallnacht.

July 07, 2021
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  • Rickey Bevington
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his thinking has "evolved" on how to balance free speech and the harms of Holocaust denial.

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Facebook Bans Holocaust Denial, Reversing Earlier Policy

CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who previously considered such claims free speech, said his thinking has "evolved." Survivors had lobbied the social network to remove posts that deny the Holocaust.

October 12, 2020
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  • Shannon Bond
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