Holocaust

While accepting his award, Cohen touched on the role companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter have played in spreading lies and hate speech online, calling the sites "the greatest propaganda machine in history." Below is a short summary of his main talkin…

Today, Mark Zuckerberg is making billions off of signal boosting the messages of holocaust deniers, white supremacists, and other assembled peddlers of the worst kind of bigotry and hate. We know this because today is one of the days of the week that ends in …

This institute holds Jewish memories saved from destruction during the Holocaust — What’s in the Basement?

A Holocaust survivor displays the numerical tattoo stamped on his arm, a physical remnant of his imprisonment in a World War II Nazi concentration camp, during ceremonies commemorating the 50th annivesary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. - Ira Nowinski …

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…