Holocaust

(CNN)The man who killed a woman and injured dozens of other people when he rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years ago will be sentenced Friday by a federal judge. James Alex Fields Jr. pleaded guil…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption NS has contributed to the restoration of the museum at Westerbork camp The Netherlands' state-run rail company NS has said it will pay tens of millions of euros in compensation to Holocaust victims and their familie…

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Holocaust survivors: The families that weren’t meant to live

Today I was finishing 'Auschwitz,' a granular history of the place and the camp, how a no place became a notorious place, and an inside look at the ironies of history. (Auschwitz started by deporting Jews.)In the final pages I came across a reference to Topf …

Consider how abolition, the great moral crusade of the 19th century, is now taught in schools. The New York State Regents curriculum guide, which shapes public high school education in the state, refers to people who took action to abolish slavery and names f…

Many of us are feeling some combination of despair, outrage, and shock at reports of the conditions at the U.S. southern border. Its devastating to learn that our government is separating children from their families, cramming people into overcrowded detentio…

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (WTHR) Authorities are looking for the person who hit and killed a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor with their car. A $50,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest, according to NBC LA. Gennady Bolotsky was hit by a whi…

Anna Lind-Guzik ("a writer, attorney, and scholar of Soviet history, international law, and human rights, with degrees from Duke University, Harvard Law School, and Princeton") has written an essay defending Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's use of the term "concent…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Capitol Hill, February 27, 2019(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Democrats are split over Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments earlier this week equating American immigrant-detention centers with the concentration camps …