Holocaust

LONDON — On February 9, 1943, Transport 46 left the Drancy concentration camp on the outskirts of Paris bound for Auschwitz. Among the 1,000 deportees being carried to their deaths was 73-year-old Aaron Ianco. Seven decades later, Ianco’s great-grandson, British photographer Marc Wilson, began a project that would see him…

David Sompolinsky, a prominent microbiologist who helped rescue hundreds of Jews in Denmark during the Holocaust, died last week at age 100 in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak, where he lived. Sompolinsky, a native of Copenhagen, died on October 13 and was buried in Rishon Lezion. When World War…

At a tense school board meeting Monday night in Southlake, Texas, a former student gave painful testimony about antisemitic bullying that he said he endured in the Carroll Independent School District.  Teachers grew emotional as they described feeling unsupported and under attack.   And many parents defended a district administrator who…

There is no 'opposing' perspective. Learning about the Holocaust cultivates an appropriate outrage at wrongs. Fern Schumer Chapman  |  Opinion contributor Children of Holocaust survivors and refugees felt a knife twist in their backs on learning that Gina Peddy, a school administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas,…

    FORT BELVOIR, VA, October 18, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Frank Cohn has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all…

A new Texas law designed to limit how race-related subjects are taught in public schools comes with so little guidance, the on-the-ground application is already tying educators up in semantic knots as they try to follow the Legislature's intent. In the most striking instance so far, a North Texas administrator…

Politics The incident in North Texas is the latest example of how schools, educators, and parents nationwide are clashing over what can and can't be taught in the classroom. By Meryl Kornfield and Timothy Bella, Washington Post October 16, 2021 A North Texas school district apologized late Thursday after an…

World 16 Oct, 2021 12:33 AM4 minutes to read A Texas school district administrator told teachers that if they have books about the Holocaust in their classrooms, they should also have books that offer opposing viewpoints. Photo / 123rf A Texas school district administrator told teachers that if they have…

NBC News on Thursday published audio of a school official in Southlake, Texas, telling teachers they need to offer students books that give “opposing” perspectives on the Holocaust. “Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing -- that has…

A Texas superintendent apologized to his district on Thursday after a top official told teachers to "make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives." Why it matters: The comment, which was first reported by NBC…