Holocaust

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…

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“We owe this to them,” Erika Jakubovits, who organized the Jewish Community of Vienna vaccination drive, told AP. By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA   JANUARY 28, 2021 06:38 An ICEJ volunteer nurse caring for a Holocaust survivor in Haifa amid the Coronavirus crisis. (photo credit: ICEJ) The main representative body of Austrian…

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Lawrence O’Donnell says “we now live in a country where not everyone is horrified by” the atrocities of the Holocaust. He quotes the late Congressman Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, who said: “The veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we…

Rabbi Shaul Nekrich holds the Sulzbach Torah Scroll in a ceremony at the Reichstag building in Berlin. (Odd Andersen/Associated Press) A Jewish prayer for the souls of people murdered in the Holocaust echoed Wednesday over the site where the Warsaw ghetto stood during World War II as a world gripped…