Holocaust

Ervin Staub has always known the difference a bystander could make. He was born in 1938, and by the time he was six, the Nazis were deporting 440,000 of his fellow Hungarian Jews to death camps.“There were important bystanders in my life who showed me that people don’t have to…

Petr Kotlár in The Painted Bird (IFC Films) Even in a Holocaust-adjacent movie, what’s the point of ramming home the same point in a hundred sickening ways? NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here is so much grim knowledge about the Holocaust available to us, that sticking close to the factual record…

Anti-neo-Nazi activists carry signs showing swastikas. The man was 19 at the time of his alleged crimes, and will therefore be tried in a juvenile court.He was charged with war crimes during the Holocaust.This is the latest in the series of prosecutions by Germany for these crimes.A 95-year-old former Nazi…

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas county Republican Party chairman who owns a weekly newspaper apologized Sunday for a cartoon posted on the paper’s Facebook page that equated the Democratic governor’s coronavirus-inspired order for people to wear masks in public with the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during the…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas county Republican Party chairman who owns a weekly newspaper apologized Sunday for a cartoon posted on the paper’s Facebook page that equated the Democratic governor’s coronavirus-inspired order for people to wear masks in public with the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A weekly Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican Party chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page likening the Democratic governor’s order requiring people to wear masks in public to the roundup and murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.The cartoon on the…

The web series “Dispatches From Quarantine” — which has been chronicling the coronavirus quarantines of famous entertainers as they stay at home — featured what turned out to be Carl Reiner’s final interview. In it, the 98-year-old Reiner, who died Monday, talks about his love of comedy, meeting his wife…

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. German authorities have banned a neo-Nazi group that was being investigated for plotting terrorist attacks and had bought land to set up a separatist far-right community. Interior Ministry spokesman Steve Alter on Tuesday announced the ban on…

Chief cantor of the Vienna Jewish community Shmuel Barzilai prays during the groundbreaking ceremony of the memorial to the Jewish children, women and men of Austria who were murdered in the Shoah, in Vienna, Austria. (Reuters) The memorial, to be completed by next spring, is envisioned as a place of…

VIENNA (Reuters) - Construction of Austria's first public monument naming all the country's Holocaust victims began on Monday, a further step by Adolf Hitler's native land towards confronting an issue it has long struggled with.For decades after World War Two, Austria denied responsibility for crimes committed by the Nazis, arguing…