Holocaust

TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) – Two months ago, shortly after the Olympics began in Beijing, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) took a shot at China for its treatment of the Uighur minority group. “At the #Olympics you’ll see a well-known tradition — the torch relay — which the Nazis used…

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FRANKFURT: Eight decades after Raisa Valiushkevych fled Ukraine to escape Nazi Germany's invasion, the 98-year-old Holocaust survivor found herself fleeing again - this time to Germany, to escape Russian shells falling around her home in Kyiv. Speaking at a Jewish care home in Frankfurt, the retired teacher said it felt…

The meaning of ‘Survivor’ Barry Levinson, who can paper walls with his 21 Emmy nominations, has directed “The Survivor,” a true story from Alan Haft’s book “Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano.” In Auschwitz, Harry Haft survives unspeakable horrors. For amusement, SS captors bent on destroying him forced…

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The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Deborah Lipstadt, who has been criticized for comparing Trump’s presidency to Nazi Germany. Lipstadt — who worked as an educator at Emory University and as a historian of Jewish history and the Holocaust — was…

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The virtual tour of the Auschwitz death camp begins at the main gate. Visitors click white arrows and arrive at the unloading platform where Nazi physicians once determined which new arrivals were fit for work, and which would be sent to the gas chambers.  The ruins of the gas chambers…

Although there will be a few in-person talks, all 14 presentations can be viewed via the Zoom videoconferencing program. Leonie Wolfram and Maximilian Staudacher are young Austrians known as gedenkdieners. Photo courtesy Vanier College. The Ukraine-Russia conflict, Indigenous genocide and online anti-Semitism: these are among topics to be covered during…

NEW YORK — If you live in New York City and are attuned to the programming schedules of local arts cinemas, there is a man who is noticeably having a moment: 57-year-old Sergei Loznitsa. The fact that Ukraine’s most celebrated film director has so many projects coming to theaters right…