Holocaust

The Dutch national railroad invoiced the Germans about the equivalent of 3 million euros, adjusted for inflation, for running these trains, according to Dirk Mulder, one of the authors. The Germans may not have paid this full amount, about $3.28 million, but …

Two Jewish cousins have had an emotional reunion 75 years after fleeing Romania and believing each other had been killed in the Holocaust. Morris Sana and Simon Mairowitz grew up as close childhood friends in Romania, but when a fascist coup in 1940 allied t…

After Believing They Will Never See Each Other Again, These Holocaust Survivors Are Reunited After 75 Years Apart

At least those misguided Pokemon Goers were following the noble ideal of trying to be the very best, like no one ever was. Sadly, the same sort of boneheaded behavior occurs with increasing frequency at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. But unlike the Auschwitz…

The Des Moine Register is facing criminal threats and has had to heighten security following conservative backlash to a story they published this week that surfaced racist tweets college football fan Carson King wrote when he was 16 years old. The now-24-y…

(PARIS) — Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France’s role in the Holocaust and defiantly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at age 86. His son-in-law Frederic Salat-Baroux told The Assoc…

A new crop of symbols has emerged in Hong Kongs protests in recent weeks: swastikas and the term Chinazi. At a demonstration earlier this month, when protesters marched to the US consulate to urge Congress to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act…

White Bird, an original graphic novel by best-selling author R.J. Palacio, released October 1, 2019. Courtesy Alfred K. Knopf Theres never a bad time to inspire young people with stories about the power of kindness in the face of cruelty, but some historica…

If you violate Facebook’s rules, Facebook can force you to remove the offending content, or temporarily ban you, or permanently ban you. If a politician violates those same rules, Facebook now officially won’t do squat.  In a speech at the Atlantic Festival…

Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent; it has only become mainstream in the past 70 years or so.…