Holocaust

Branko Lustig, a two-time Oscar-winning producer who survived the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, has died. He was 87. Lustig’s death was confirmed on Thursday by the Festival of Tolerance, the Jewish film festival for which he served as pre…

Using the aggressively bland term one-child policy is a bit like saying that 1942 Germany had restrictions on Jews. You may never have thought much about how a huge nation enforces a limit of one baby per family, but the horrifying details of Chinas Holocaust…

Kurucz Sándor was around 7 when, in 1938, German soldiers came to his town in what was then Czechoslovakia. One by one, Sándor’s friends and neighbors, who were members of the Roma ethnic group, were taken away by the Einsatzgruppen, who were Nazi security f…

Theres an almost amused distance in some of these accounts, which vanishes as others speak of the unspeakable legacies of oppression and destruction borne by black and Jewish Americans. There arises, alarmingly and inevitably, what is effectively a debate as …

Liliana Segre waves at the end of a meeting with students in Milan, Italy, in 2018. For decades, Segre, 89, was reluctant to discuss her time in Auschwitz. But in the 1990s, she began speaking to schoolchildren throughout Italy about the Holocaust. Luca Brun…

Poland is pressing Netflix to change a map in one of its documentary series, accusing the streaming service of rewriting history. On Sunday Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki posted to his Facebook account a letter he sent to Netflix CEO Reed Hasting e…

5 Strategies For Teaching About The Holocaust Through Inquiry contributed by Tyrone Shaw Effective teaching about the Holocaust requires asking students the right questions, and that is the beginning of any inquiry-based lesson. The good thing, too, is th…

The heirs of two Holocaust victims have sued the Lehman Foundation in New York over a multi-million dollar painting, both claiming their families owned the painting before the Nazi era.  The 1917 painting by Egon Schiele, Portrait of the Artists Wife, was pu…

On November 9, 1938, German Nazis launched a violent campaign against Jewish communities, torching synagogues, vandalizing homes, schools, and graveyards, and destroying 7,500 businesses. In what would foreshadow the Holocaust in its violence, Kristallnacht,…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption People placed roses on a remaining portion of the Berlin Wall during a ceremony on Saturday German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against taking democracy for granted, at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of t…