Holocaust

UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin on Tuesday with his German and Israeli counterparts, a significant public gesture that comes two weeks after the signing of a normalization deal with Israel.Why it matters: Bin Zayed is one of the first senior Arab officials to…

Google says it’s looking into the search results and wants to improve them. But according to researchers, the results may not be an accident. By BEN SALES/JTA  SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 20:46 A Google search page is seen through a magnifying glass in this photo illustration taken in Berlin, August 11,…

“And what is the difference between Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump?” Deutsch said. “I’m not saying there’s a Holocaust, but when you look at the tactics, that is where we are right now.” By BEN SALES/JTA  SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 11:48 US President Donald Trump rallies with supporters at a campaign…

Some of the biggest songwriters in music came together with Holocaust survivor and educator Ben Lesser for a new global music campaign based on stories and experiences from some of history's most extraordinary people.  The meet-up is part of online and educational campaign The Global Classroom, a collaboration with the United Nations…

Almost two-thirds of millennials and Gen Zers don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and almost half can't name a single concentration camp, an alarming new survey on Holocaust knowledge has found.The survey demonstrated wide gaps in younger American's knowledge of the genocide while also showing a…

This article is the second in a four-part series addressing the myths that conflate multiculturalism and anti-racism. Each article will address different aspects of this debate as follows: part one: Multicultural immigration is not racial benevolence; part two: Multicultural diversity is not racial equality; part three: Multiculturalism does not address xenophobia; part…

Marion Callahan Bucks County Courier TimesPublished 10:27 AM EDT Sep 15, 2020LEVITTOWN, Pa. – Ernie Gross learned to find hope and humor in the darkest of places.It was not an easy task for Gross, who from a very young age was known as “the boy who never laughed.”     At school, his…

The majority of French young people aged 15-24 have learned the history of the Holocaust at school, according to a poll published on Sunday. But the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) says it regrets that for one in ten students surveyed, these lessons are impossible to teach.Read More

By Fiachra GIBBONS (AFP)     Sep 3, 2020 in World A "vanishingly small number" of Germans were unaware the Holocaust was going on during World War II, the makers of a chilling new documentary said Thursday.The acclaimed British director Luke Holland interviewed more than 300 elderly Germans and Austrians,…

The Auschwitz Memorial believes there are better ways to commemorate the Holocaust than roleplaying its victims. Image: Britta Pedersen / dpa / picture alliance via Getty Images By Amanda Yeo2020-08-27 06:19:30 UTC The Auschwitz Memorial has addressed the trend of teens on TikTok pretending to be Holocaust victims, calling it…