Holocaust

Andy Ngo temporarily uploaded a new Twitter banner on Tuesday created by a prominent white nationalist cartoonist. The self-described journalist, who gained widespread attention after being attacked while covering a left-wing protest last year, praised the image in a now-deleted tweet. “More accurate than most mainstream news stories I’ve read…

Born in Lodz, Poland, Foer spent her early childhood in a displaced persons camp in Germany, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors who grew up just miles apart and married in 1945. She is, more famously, the mother of three best-selling writers, Jonathan, Franklin, and Joshua Foer, all of whom…

Arie Even had a knack for survival.Arie Even, 88, became the first, and so far only, Israeli to die of COVID-19. (Even family / Handout)As a youth, with the help of his grandfather, he managed to hide out in a countryside basement from the Nazis who slaughtered more than 500,000…

By Jonmaesha Beltran | – (Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – Seventy-five years after the atrocities of Auschwitz, memories of the Holocaust are fading for younger generations who learn little about genocides in school, according to education advocates who believe they have the answer: Make it Arizona law to teach about…

Download They Wore a Purple Triangle Maud lives in France and works in a school where she assists disabled children during classes. Recently the students in one class were learning about the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps. Camp prisoners had to wear a colored patch sewn onto their uniform. The…

DALLAS, March 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, February 19th MYCON General Contractors, Inc. (MYCON) donated $35,000 to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum (DHHRM) in honor of its new exhibition, The Fight for Civil Rights in the South.Pictured: Charles R. Myers, Mary Pat Higgins, and Mark Zoradi"It is…

Two former staffers for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) didn't expect the intense online blowback from proudly showing off their tattoos to commemorate their time on her failed presidential campaign. Many saw the tattoos as far too similar to the tattoos forced upon Jewish captives by the Nazis during World War…

WASHINGTON — Éva Szekely never forgot the Hungarian fascist who, in the winter of 1944, passed over her in a roundup of Jews to be shot on the banks of the Danube River in Budapest. He had one gray eye and one brown, a visage seared into her memory.Ms. Szekely…

Henry James stared at the glyph saying ‘denied’. He was pretty sure it said denied. The Blash’s writing looked like bowls of spaghetti dropped on a long-haired carpet, but the left-facing hook usually meant ‘no’, and the two inverted whorls meant ‘official’, ‘power’, and occasionally ‘flushing things down the toilet’.“But…

Former staffers for Elizabeth Warren have been taken to the woodshed over tattoos meant to memorialize her ill-fated campaign – which just happen to closely resemble markings given to Holocaust concentration camp prisoners. Oops! Intending to commemorate the Democratic senator’s failed bid for the presidency, at least two former Warren…