Holocaust

Almost two-thirds of millennials and Gen Zers don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and almost half can't name a single concentration camp, an alarming new survey on Holocaust knowledge has found.The survey demonstrated wide gaps in younger American's knowledge of the genocide while also showing a…

Marion Callahan Bucks County Courier TimesPublished 10:27 AM EDT Sep 15, 2020LEVITTOWN, Pa. – Ernie Gross learned to find hope and humor in the darkest of places.It was not an easy task for Gross, who from a very young age was known as “the boy who never laughed.”     At school, his…

The majority of French young people aged 15-24 have learned the history of the Holocaust at school, according to a poll published on Sunday. But the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) says it regrets that for one in ten students surveyed, these lessons are impossible to teach.Read More

By Fiachra GIBBONS (AFP)     Sep 3, 2020 in World A "vanishingly small number" of Germans were unaware the Holocaust was going on during World War II, the makers of a chilling new documentary said Thursday.The acclaimed British director Luke Holland interviewed more than 300 elderly Germans and Austrians,…

The Auschwitz Memorial believes there are better ways to commemorate the Holocaust than roleplaying its victims. Image: Britta Pedersen / dpa / picture alliance via Getty Images By Amanda Yeo2020-08-27 06:19:30 UTC The Auschwitz Memorial has addressed the trend of teens on TikTok pretending to be Holocaust victims, calling it…

Home / Art and Culture / TikTok ‘Trauma Porn’ latest trend: Tone deaf users dress up as dead Holocaust victims, called out for anti-Semitism TikTok may have been banned in India, but the short video app still has a strong user base in other countries, and like every trend that…

The New Mexico Civil Guard announced on Sunday that it was pulling out of an August 22 rally featuring a number of local Republicans.The news comes after Business Insider reported on the existence of the rally, which was to pay "special tribute" to the group, whose leaders include a neo-Confederate…

It’s an unusual development for Eastern and Central Europe, where leaders of Jewish communities are rarely expelled and seldom express acrimonious public criticism of Israel. By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA  AUGUST 12, 2020 06:04 A still from the movie ‘1945’ showing the two Jewish protagonists at a railway station in rural Hungary…

The curriculum is the first designed and developed by a living Holocaust survivor, and includes six lesson plans designed by a living Holocaust survivor. CHILD SURVIVORS on the day of their liberation from Auschwitz (Seventh and eighth from left Marta Wise and her sister Eva Slonim) (photo credit: YAD VASHEM)…

Wilmès’s mother is an Ashkenazi Jew who lost several relatives in the Holocaust. A Belgian national flag flies over the Royal Palace (photo credit: FRANCOIS LENOIR / REUTERS) The Prime Minister of Belgium, Sophie Wilmès, said that having a Jewish mother has been "an important element in my life," the…