Holocaust

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Fascist past and its future — which will governed by a party with neo-fascist roots — came to an emotional head Thursday when a Holocaust survivor presided over the first seating of Parliament since last month’s general election. Liliana Segre, a 92-year-old senator-for-life, opened the session…

BERLIN (AP) — Israel's ambassador in Berlin has slammed a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party for appearing to dance on the country's Holocaust memorial. Ambassador Ron Prosor said tweeted Tuesday that far-right politician Holger Winterstein had brought “shame upon himself and his party.” A picture posted on…

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ATHENS — The appeal trial of dozens of jailed members of Greek neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn saw tempers flare Friday when the lawyer of a key defendant gave a Nazi salute in court. Kostas Plevris, defending jailed ex-Golden Dawn Eurodeputy (MEP) Ioannis Lagos, gave the salute during an argument with…

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Tom Stoppard has been a fixture on Broadway since his famous early play, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” travelled there in 1967. Stoppard is eighty-five…

When I launched into "The U.S. and The Holocaust," Ken Burn's documentary exploring the United States' response to Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler, I knew I'd be seeing images that have disturbed my consciousness most of my life: flocks of German war planes against a white sky, the shattered glass of…

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Wednesday, meeting a Holocaust survivor and the son of Holocaust survivors and saying it is time to “terminate” hatred. The “Terminator” actor and former California governor viewed the barracks, watchtowers and remains…

When reading a book about the Holocaust, the last thing you expect to encounter is a story about a pineapple. Yet that’s what you get by page four of “The Happiest Boy on Earth,” Eddie Jaku’s powerful story written as a children’s book, so that his youngest loves — his…

KRYYVI RIG, Ukraine (AFP) — Roman Gerstein, an 83-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, has a blunt riposte for Kremlin justifications of its invasion: “There are no Nazis here.” For supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine’s alleged “genocide” of Russian speakers in the country’s eastern regions is comparable with the actions…

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