Holocaust

Topline Actress Gina Carano has been dropped from the Disney+ Star Wars show, The Mandalorian after she shared a post on social media comparing the treatment of Republicans in the U.S. to Jewish people during the Holocaust, Lucasfilm announced Wednesday night, after several users on social media had demanded her…

On a trip to Warsaw, Poland, in 2019, Richard Freund confronted the history of resistance against the Nazis at a Holiday Inn. Freund, an archaeologist, and professor of Jewish Studies at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, was led by the hotel manager into the basement. “Lo and behold,” Freund says,…

A man walks past a billboard advertisement for YouTube on October 5, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images YouTube removed a neo-Nazi organization from its platform following an inquiry from Insider. The group had recently hosted former Democratic lawmaker Cynthia McKinney. YouTube also removed the personal account of the…

A Warsaw court ruled on Tuesday that two historians tarnished the memory of a Polish villager in a book about the Holocaust and must apologize, in a case some academics warn could deter impartial research into Poland's actions during World War Two. More than seven decades on, the conflict remains…

WARSAW—A Polish court has ordered two historians to apologize for identifying a town mayor as an accused collaborator who gave up Jews to occupying Nazi forces during World War II, potentially chilling discussion of the role some Poles played during the Holocaust. Close to 3.2 million Polish Jews are estimated…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Warsaw ruled Tuesday that two prominent Holocaust researchers must apologize to a woman who claimed her deceased uncle had been slandered in a historical work, citing alleged inaccuracies that suggested the Polish man helped kill Jews during World War II. Lawyers for 81-year-old…

WASHINGTON — Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming waded deeper into Republicans’ identity crisis on Sunday, warning her party on the eve of a Senate impeachment trial not to “look past” former President Donald Trump’s role in stoking a violent attack on the Capitol and a culture of conspiracy roosting among…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial for a scholarly examination of Polish behavior during World War II, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the fate of independent Holocaust research under Poland’s nationalist government. A verdict is expected in Warsaw’s district court on…

Patrick Ryan   | USA TODAY Get ready for your next documentary obsession.  The riveting "Misha and the Wolves," which premiered Sunday at Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for release by Netflix, tells the unbelievable story of writer Misha Defonseca, a Belgian woman living in Massachusetts with a jaw-dropping tale of how she…

Ever since “Man on Wire,” in 2008, more and more documentaries have been using visualizations, staged scenes, and other illustrative methods that are meant to bring a true story to life but, to my mind, often end up getting in the way of it. I tend to prefer my documentaries…