Holocaust

As people still reel from a mass shooting at Michigan State University that left three people dead and another five injured, Michigan Republicans are now comparing modest gun regulation to the Holocaust. In a Twitter post Wednesday morning, the official Michigan GOP account posted a photo referencing the Nazis’ seizure…

(March 22, 2023 / JNS) “History has shown us that the first thing a government does when it wants total control over its people is to disarm them. President Reagan once stated, ‘If we lose freedom here, there is nowhere else to escape to. This is the last stand on…

Twitter is running ads for companies including Nokia, The Wall Street Journal, and Mailchimp alongside tweets from Holocaust deniers, according to a report by nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters for America. Media Matters reviewed five Twitter accounts belonging to neo-Nazis, antisemites, and Holocaust deniers and found that ads for prominent…

'In the case of the Ukraine war, escalation may lead to a nuclear holocaust, annihilation of life on earth,' writes Evelyn Tischer. Canada should broker a peace deal rather that commit tanks to Ukraine, writes Evelyn Tischer. Photo by Spencer Platt /Getty Images Federal Defence Minister Anita Anand announced on…

JTA — Germany held a ceremony to celebrate the first German-Jewish sites to be given UNESCO’s World Heritage designation on Wednesday. The sites in the upper part of the Rhine River valley are known as the origin point of Ashkenazi culture and where the Yiddish language first began to develop…

There has been virulent and negative reaction to this writer’s story, published last week, on the Holocaust. That was perhaps predictable, but it is still more than a little depressing. The article dealt with the virtual suppression, for many decades following World War II, of most public discourse on the…

The series features 28 hours of taped interviews with Adolf Eichmann, a leading perpetrator of the Holocaust’s “Final Solution” RAMLE, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann in his prison cell April 15, 1961 in Ramle, central Israel. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to…

A major Kentucky newspaper published an op-ed on National Holocaust Remembrance Day telling Jewish people that they "do not have a monopoly on persecution and atrocities." Even though the January 27 memorial focuses on the monumental tragedy of six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War,…

On the evening of January 24, my wife and I attended a Holocaust memorial concert at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa: Silent Tears, The Last Yiddish Tango. The performance was based on poems written by elderly Holocaust survivors. The project had originated as a therapeutic exercise led by social…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday repeated a claim that neo-Nazis were committing crimes in Ukraine — an allegation Moscow has used to justify its military intervention — as the world marked Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies,” Putin said.  “This…