Holocaust

Holocaust Remembrance Day began on Monday evening with a series of ceremonies across the country, with the official state ceremony beginning at 8 p.m. at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. The Yad Vashem ceremony was streamed ive on YouTube with an English translation. Six memorial torches commemorating the six million Jews…

Skip to main content The payments were for "travel reimbursement" and "archival services," according to the campaign's latest Federal Election Commission filing Kanye West in Los Angeles, Calif. MEGA/GC Images Kanye West’s presidential campaign claimed more than $30,000 in payments to white nationalist Nick Fuentes in its latest Federal Election…

Independent Jewish Voices Canada are among the dozens of organizations urging the United Nations not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. By Richie AssalyToronto Star Thu., April 13, 2023timer7 min. read updateArticle was updated Apr. 14, 2023 An international debate over what should be considered…

Yevgeniy Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary group, leaves a cemetery before the funeral of Russian military blogger Maxim Fomin in Moscow last month. (Yulia Morozova/Reuters)Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Wagner Group boss, has shared videos of dead fighters before, but his open rage against military officials in the graphic video was…

(The Conversation) — Richard Glazar insisted that no one survived the Holocaust without help. To this Prague-born Jewish survivor, who endured Nazi imprisonment at Treblinka and Theresienstadt, plus years in hiding, it was impossible to persevere without others’ support. Glazar conceded that some of his fellow Treblinka survivors were “loners,”…

ORLANDO, Fla. — A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative advocacy group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at Vero…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A high school along Florida's Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative advocacy group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at…

Group's report card of game and social media companies finds lack of policies, slow responses, and no action taken on user reports The ADL has released its 2023 Holocaust Denial Report Card, and while none of the social media platforms or gaming companies it assessed did an exemplary job of…

Wikipedia reflects historical disputes—but it can’t resolve them. Photo illustration by Slate Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Believe it or not, the hottest controversy on Wikipedia right now isn’t about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, or ChatGPT. In fact, it’s something seemingly more…

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