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.
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.
Piotr Cywinski of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial has suggested Nigeria's president allow 120 adults to each serve a month of a boy's 10-year prison sentence.
The Vatican has long maintained that Pope Pius XII did everything he could to save Jewish lives, but newly unearthed papers have renewed accusations of complicit silence against him.
Hollywood's Golden Age and the rise of fascism in Europe were happening at the same time, a world apart. Those worlds collided when Hollywood decided to...