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It was an image of my mother I’d never seen before. A British soldier looks at the number 52406 tattooed on her left arm at…
One night, during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade, my grandfather didn’t return home from the forced labor imposed on Serbia’s Jews. My grandmother was pregnant.…
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Whoopi Goldberg tied herself in knots trying to explain that Nazi Germany’s industrial extermination of Jews wasn’t ‘about race.’ But her suspension is unfair: Defining…
80 percent of Serbia’s Jews were murdered by the Nazis. But in Belgrade, the Holocaust is still largely ignored. Not a single sign, memorial or…
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My Zayde told us about his childhood in Kazimierz, and about burying half-alive bodies in Buchenwald. What it means to be the grandchild of a…
Do Jews 1941=Uighurs 2021? Who decides, and according to what criteria, which atrocities and crimes against humanity ‘deserve’ a Never Again campaign? Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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How does genocide affect survivors’ national and political identity? And how they relate to the perpetrators and their heirs? How Bosnian Muslims, targets of Europe’s…
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Forgiveness, a comforting narrative arc conforming to the expectations of majority Christian culture, is now sanctified as the key message of the six million murdered…
A few decades ago, building an international consensus to mark the Holocaust was unimaginable. That its commemoration is now a global event is a stark…
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Denounce Zionism, or we’ll downgrade the Holocaust: That’s the message of the Benedictine College activists who tried to bully a Holocaust survivor into backing their…
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Simcha (Kazik) Rotem, who died last week, spirited dozens of fighters out of the ghetto through its sewers, but years on wouldn’t forgive those who…