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Maus banned in Tennessee: Tennessee school board bans Holocaust-themed graphic novel ‘Maus’ Holocaust

Maus banned in Tennessee: Tennessee school board bans Holocaust-themed graphic novel ‘Maus’

epa09713228 An illustration pictures shows Art Spiegelman's graphic novel 'Maus' being read in Los Angeles, California, USA, 27 January 2022. A school board in Tennessee bans the Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the Holocaust from being taught in its classrooms. EPA-EFE/ETIENNE LAURENT By Steve Gorman The 10-0 vote by the McMinn…
bubmag
January 28, 2022
Banning a seminal Holocaust book ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day is a modern tragedy Holocaust

Banning a seminal Holocaust book ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day is a modern tragedy

The first time I saw the cover of Art Spiegelman’s “Maus,” I stopped cold. The drawing on its cover depicts two mice huddled under a large, menacing swastika and the face of a cat sporting the same narrow mustache as that of Adolf Hitler. My own experience with “Maus” demonstrates…
bubmag
January 27, 2022
Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust, review: unbearable at times, but a necessary insight into history Holocaust

Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust, review: unbearable at times, but a necessary insight into history

BBC Two produced a moving documentary about Holocaust survivors being painted as part of a Prince of Wales-commissioned project Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper attends an exhibition called ‘Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust’, which has been commissioned by the Prince of Wales Credit: Getty If you were able to watch Survivors:…
bubmag
January 27, 2022
Warning of rising antisemitism, Herzog says shock of Holocaust ‘is wearing off’ Holocaust

Warning of rising antisemitism, Herzog says shock of Holocaust ‘is wearing off’

President Isaac Herzog on Thursday warned of rising antisemitism, saying “the shock is wearing off” of Nazi Germany’s genocide of six million Jews in the Holocaust. Herzog issued the warning at a ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which has been marked each January 27 since United Nations member states…
bubmag
January 27, 2022
Exhibits, online events to mark 2022 observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day Holocaust

Exhibits, online events to mark 2022 observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Exhibits and online programs spotlighting one of history’s darkest events were planned Thursday for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating when Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Europe in 1945. Educating citizens about the horrors of the Nazi era is essential to guarding the future, says Simmy Allen, international…
bubmag
January 27, 2022
Tennessee school board bans acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel, ‘Maus’ Holocaust

Tennessee school board bans acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel, ‘Maus’

(RNS) — A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its curriculum earlier this month over concerns about offensive words. The 10-member board of education in McMinn County, about 60 miles south of Knoxville, voted Jan. 10 to remove the book…
bubmag
January 27, 2022