Holocaust

Records from the Holocaust and Nazi persecution have become more accessible, thanks to newly digitised archives. A joint initiative between Ancestry and the Arolsen Archives an international centre on Nazi persecution has resulted in the digitisation of milli…

Estonian MEP has demanded a final solution  for Syrian refugees who break the law in Europe, in an apparent echoing of the language used by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.  Jaak Madison, an MEP for Estonias right-wing Conservative Peoples Party, made t…

The letters were sent from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, Qari Muhammad Asim MBE, Chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board and Senior Imam. In a sepa…

Oswiecim (Poland) (AFP) - Roma and Jewish Holocaust survivors gathered at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday to mark 75 years since a massacre of Roma and Sinti people at the twin German death camps. Survivors also paid homage to some 500,000 others the Nazis kill…

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) American civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed and mourned at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday as he joined survivors paying homage to an often forgotten genocide that of the Roma people on a key 75th anniversary. In addition …

The idea of paying reparations for slavery is gaining momentum in the United States, despite being long derided as an unrealistic plan, to compensate for state violence committed by and against people long dead. The topic saw substantive debate in the July 3…

Subscribe to Radio Atlantic : Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher ( How to Listen ) Listen to Edward-Isaac Dovere interview Dana Nessel on Radio Atlantic. DETROIT—A white moderate man can win statewide in Michigan, sure, but so can a progressive Jewish lesbia…

In a game called Manitoba, players are Cree clan leaders, yet the game prominently features totem poles, made by Native American and First Nations peoples who lived thousands of miles away. (The Italian game designers of Manitoba have defended the inaccuracie…

Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald. Those names should cause readers to shudder as they remember the horrors that were wrought there and the millions of people who died behind their walls. However, as the years pass and the numbers of Holocaust surv…

Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald. Those names should cause readers to shudder as they remember the horrors that were wrought there and the millions of people who died behind their walls. However, as the years pass and the numbers of Holocaust surv…