Holocaust

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, and the author of The Jews Should Keep Quiet: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, forthcoming from The Jewish Publication Soci…

I really feel that there is something dehumanizing in being just a victim, Keret said. When the Holocaust shows up in his stories, it is often as a foil, a background to the lives of individuals like the narrator in Yad Vashem, who is touring Israels Holocaus…

Christian Right activist Dave Daubenmire, who believes Jews are “no longer God’s chosen people” because they hate Jesus, said on his Pass the Salt Live webcast today that there’s no way six million Jews died in the Holocaust — and he had proof! That proof? A…

Its infuriating and intolerable, said Sophie Ellman-Golan, 27, the former director of communications and digital outreach at the Womens March organization, who is now working on a project to mobilize Jews against white nationalism. Because the right purports …

Massive human-caused fires in the Amazon are burning the rainforest at a record rate, stoking global concerns about its potential impact on climate change and shrouding Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro in controversy. The Onion looks at the most significant…

Protected: Are U.S. Current Events Similar to the Holocaust?

Despite the fact that hes a big bag of shit who helped support and promote the Trump administration and its many nightmarish misdeeds, Sean Spicer is set to compete on this season of ABCs Dancing With The Stars. Its not a particularly big deal in the grand sc…

TEREZIN IS AN old garrison town in todays Czech Republic that was used by the Nazis as a Jewish ghetto during the second world war. Some 33,000 Jews died in Theresienstadt, as it is known in German, and over twice that number were transported from there to de…

TEREZIN IS AN old garrison town in todays Czech Republic that was used by the Nazis as a Jewish ghetto during the second world war. Some 33,000 Jews died in Theresienstadt, as it is known in German, and over twice that number were transported from there to de…

Erwin Schild was just 20 years old and had already survived Dachau concentration camp when he boarded a military ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean to Quebec. When the SS Sobiesky docked in Canada in July 1940, the Cologne, Germany, native hoped the imprisonmen…