Holocaust

The Holocaust Memorial Towers, 1998. Turns out six million numbers can make you sad. I wrap my arms around Danny. Mommy, are you OK? he asks. Yes, darling, I say, telling a mothers lie, like number 169067, when she answered Ill be back, and she knew the answe…

Fox Searchlight unveiled Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit” to sharply divided reactions at the Toronto International Film Festival. The coming-of-age comedy-drama is set in Nazi Germany and centers around a young boy whose sense of nationalism is rattled after he…

Singer Pink has defended herself from her fair share of mom-shamers. These are her greatest clapbacks.  (Photo: ENNIO LEANZA, EPA-EFE) So what, mom-shamersPink is still a rock star. Since welcoming Willow Sage, 8, and Jameson Moon, 2, the "Perfect" artist …

This year's Burning Man festival included a display of a "Barbie Death Camp and Wine Bistro" art exhibit. Many people are now criticizing its creator, 65-year-old Jewish artist James Jacoby, for trivializing the Holocaust. What are the details of the exhi…

Expanding the focus to include more recent atrocities and human rights struggles helps draw in more visitors to be reminded that the lessons from the Holocaust are still relevant. The museum opening Sept. 18 in Dallas is five times bigger than its previous l…

Nobody expects Donald Trump, despite his prep school and Ivy League education, to know much about well, anything, but especially history, which he appears to view as mere context for his own salvific rise to fame and then power. But his comments this weekend …

US President Donald Trump will on Sunday attend sombre commemorations in Warsaw of the outbreak of World War II, 80 years ago. Trump will be the first US head of state to visit Poland to mark the anniversary of the start of the war, which claimed 50 million …

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, forthcoming from The Jewish Publication Soci…

I really feel that there is something dehumanizing in being just a victim, Keret said. When the Holocaust shows up in his stories, it is often as a foil, a background to the lives of individuals like the narrator in Yad Vashem, who is touring Israels Holocaus…

Christian Right activist Dave Daubenmire, who believes Jews are “no longer God’s chosen people” because they hate Jesus, said on his Pass the Salt Live webcast today that there’s no way six million Jews died in the Holocaust — and he had proof! That proof? A…