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News Articles: holocaust

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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By:
  • 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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  • History

'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
Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, has offered to serve part of the 10-year sentence of a teenage boy in Nigeria, who was allegedly punished for blasphemy.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Holocaust Historian Offers To Serve 10-Year Sentence Of Nigerian Boy

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.

October 03, 2020
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  • Scott Simon
A marble plaque over the main entrance of the Vatican Archives reads in Latin "Secret Vatican Archive." The Vatican's library on Pope Pius XII and his record during the Holocaust opened to researchers in March.

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Records From Once-Secret Archive Offer New Clues Into Vatican Response To Holocaust

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.

August 29, 2020
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  • Sylvia Poggioli
Actor Charlie Chaplin is seen in the film "The Great Dictator," as Adenoidal Hynkel, center, and Jackie Oakie as Napaloni, left, and Henry Daniell as Garbitsch, 1940.

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  • History

How Hollywood Tackled Fascism In Film To Build American Support For WWII

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...

May 14, 2019
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  • Emilia Brock ,
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • and 1 more

On Second Thought For October 6, 2016

“Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness" is a new book by historian Craig Nelson. It uses oral histories from unlikely sources to give fresh...

October 06, 2016
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  • Celeste Headlee

'Among The Living' Explores Jewish Perseverance In Savannah

The Holocaust displaced millions of Jews in the 1940s. Many survivors were left to find new homes and rebuild their lives on foreign shores. One of...

October 06, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Taylor Gantt

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