Holocaust

WASHINGTON — Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, on Wednesday compared Covid vaccination mandates to the Holocaust, a statement that was met with swift backlash from Jewish groups. Davidson made the comparison by retweeting a post from Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser about a new vaccination policy and sharing the photo of a…

National‘Happy Chanukah’: Edmonton Oilers Player Zach Hyman Lights Giant Menorah November 29, 2021 - 19:21PM Storyful Edmonton Oilers player Zach Hyman was lifted to light the top of a giant menorah in Edmonton in a ceremony to mark the start of Hanukkah on November 28. The event took place by…

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish diplomat charged with improving contacts with Jews worldwide has been fired after he criticized his own government’s approach to regulating Holocaust speech, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish diaspora, described a Holocaust speech law passed by his…

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On July 16, 1945, researchers working on the Manhattan Project got a chance to see the results of their top-secret wartime efforts for the United States government when they were invited to attend the first-ever test of an atomic bomb, nicknamed Trinity, near their lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico.…

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In the early 1920s, thousands of Jewish child refugees flooded into Moscow from Ukraine, fleeing a terrifying series of pogroms. Legendary Jewish artist Marc Chagall remembered giving art lessons to some of the refugees at a Jewish orphanage outside the Soviet capital. He recalled the horrifying atrocities they spoke about…

Third graders at Watkins Elementary School were allegedly instructed by a staff member to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including digging ditches for bodies, simulating shootings and performing as Hitler. The staff member who allegedly forced the students to participate also reportedly made antisemitic comments, according to DC Public Schools. Enrique…

A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended after making third-grade children reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including getting them to pretend to dig mass graves and shoot victims, and telling them the Germans were angry “because the Jews ruined Christmas,” parents and officials said Sunday. The…

NEW YORK — In late 1941, thousands of Latvian Jews were rounded up and marched through the Rumbula forest outside Riga to be shot by the Nazis. Among them were the mother, grandmother and sister of artist Boris Lurie. Now, 80 years later, an exhibition at the Museum of Jewish…