Holocaust

When the Charter of the U.N. was signed in San Francisco in June 1945, it promised equal rights for all, but made no specific mention of children. Thirty years ago, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted, recognizing for the first time tha…

Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, has said the Holocaust was "just another fuckery in human history." Hallam believes the Germans' attitude towards the Holocaust is holding them back. "The extremity of a trauma can create a paralysis in actu…

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria's interior minister has announced, after years of debate over how best to prevent it becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. Having recently carried out a compulsory purcha…

This poignant memoir by Noah Lederman, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, transports readers from his grandparents kitchen table in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. In the 1950s, Noahs grandparents raised their children on Holocaust stories. But because tal…

A conservative group cut ties with right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin on Sunday over her support for an anti-Semitic internet personality, ramping up a growing conservative civil war centered on college campuses. Malkins firing from Young Americas Foundati…

Image copyrightJudith RhodesImage caption Ursula Michel in 1939, before taking the Kindertransport to the UK A British lawyer is accusing the German government of violating the country's constitution by refusing to restore the citizenship of thousands of p…

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro revised his usual bash-the-leftists script in a speech this month to a packed auditorium at Stanford University. He still mocked the "radical left," but on that evening, Shapiro unloaded on far-right figures who traffic i…

HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Friday recommended delaying the execution of inmate Rodney Reed, whose conviction is being questioned by new evidence that his supporters say raises serious doubts about his guilt. The parole board una…

Despite its old ways, the younger members of the community crossed cultural lines, though. My father had Turkish business partners, my mother Greek friends, my sisters studied French at school. I grew up in a multicultural world before anyone used that word.…

Netflix plans to revise a recently released documentary after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki implored Netflix CEO Reed Hasting to edit maps shown in the series. The Devil Next Door focuses on the trial of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-American mechan…