Enough of the Brezhnev-era Soviet propaganda. Enough of the perverse, deceitful, intellectually dishonest attempts to blame Poland for WW2, and the Polish resistance for not…
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As a 5-year-old boy, I saw tanks for the first time in my life – not German or Soviet tanks, but Polish tanks driving through…
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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…
Ever since the 1930s, American conservatives have tried to police Jewish identity, by attacking the Jewish credentials of anti-fascist, ‘subversive’ and ‘disloyal’ Jews – all…
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Ever since the 1930s, American conservatives have tried to police Jewish identity, by attacking the credentials of anti-fascist, ‘subversive’ and ‘disloyal’ Jews – all the…
Netanyahu didn’t invent the idea of leveraging the Holocaust for political gain. Yet he is taking even that low to new depths, stripping Palestinians of…
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‘I beg you very much to help me if possible to emigrate very soon’: The wrenching appeals of Jewish scholars under Nazi rule – and…
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In comparison to the Holocaust, the mass murder of half a million of Europe’s Roma and Sinti communities is unknown and unrecognized. That absence, and…
Rafael Lemkin was often considered a shabby, dogged nuisance when I met him at the UN in the 1950s. He’d lost 49 family members in…
Hong Kong protestors are ‘repurposing’ Third Reich symbols to express their fear of China’s repressive rule. As a Holocaust educator living there, their blanket use…