Holocaust

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…

(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…

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Topline Holocaust survivors, Jewish advocacy groups and Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday by condemning anti-vaccine activists who likened Covid-19 response measures to the Holocaust and comparing healthcare officials to Nazis. An anti-vaccination patch resembling the Star of David badge the Nazis compelled Jews to…

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January 24, 2022 Press Contacts Andrew Hollinger Director, Communications 202.437.1221 U.S. EMBASSY IN CAIRO  AND UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM HOLD FIRST INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY COMMEMORATION  International Holocaust Remembrance Day Established  by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 CAIRO – On Monday, January 24, 2022, the United States…

JTA — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared what he sees as threats to human life from 5G, vaccine passports and “low-orbit satellites” to the threat the Nazis posed to Jews during the Holocaust. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps into Switzerland, you can hide in the attic…

JTA — The United Kingdom’s Prince Charles has commissioned portraits of seven Holocaust survivors to be displayed at Buckingham Palace for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Charles, whose title is the Prince of Wales, commissioned the portraits as part of his service as the royal patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day…

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