Holocaust

EU’s new content moderation rules start to bite at Big Tech, Department of Justice accuses SpaceX of discriminating against asylum recipients and refugees in hiring, Kroll suffers a data breach and AI allows museum visitors to interact with Holocaust survivors and enslaved people. These stories and more as we bring…

JTA — There’s no way to win The Light in the Darkness, a new video game where the characters are members of a French-Jewish family in the years before and during the Holocaust. No matter what choices the players make, they will be murdered by Nazis — a dark end…

(August 25, 2023 / JNS) Two-and-a-half years after Tasmania announced $2 million Australian (then about $1.5 million) in funding for its first Holocaust museum, the Australian state stated that the funding has been allocated to create the Holocaust Education and Interpretation Centre. The center will be part of the Tasmanian…

Handouts approved by Justice Ministry appear to prioritize Haredi families, while survivors and single-parent households largely excluded The ultra-Orthodox Shas party’s food stamp program was approved for rollout by the Justice Ministry earlier this week but has come under fire for appearing to prioritize Haredi families at the expense of…

(August 23, 2023 / JNS) A statue honoring 23 Kosovo Albanians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust was inaugurated on Wednesday in Pristina, AP reported. The “Wall of Honor” monument was unveiled in a park in the Kosovar capital in the presence of some of the rescuers’ descendants, political leaders…

PRISTINA: A statue bearing the names of 23 Kosovo Albanians who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during World War II was inaugurated Wednesday in the capital, Pristina. The "Wall of Honor" statue was placed in a park in Pristina in the presence of some of the rescuers' descendants, political leaders,…

It took almost three days for X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, to remove a ... post denying the Holocaust—and the move only came after the service received criticism from the Auschwitz Museum. X initially said the post did not break its rules on hate speech. Undated…

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Role reversal British actor says ‘seed was planted’ as a young boy after seeing film on liberation of concentration camp while reckoning with his grandmother’s ‘vigorous’ hatred of Jews JTA — From “Schindler’s List” to “The Red Sea Diving Resort,” the non-Jewish, award-winning actor Ben Kingsley has starred in a…

Witnesses say they saw suspect start blaze inside the ‘Bucherboxx’ at train station in German capital; antisemitic note said found at scene JTA — German police are investigating a fire that destroyed a public book box dedicated to Holocaust history near a memorial at the site from which tens of…