Holocaust

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, June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Lisi NiesnerVIENNA (Reuters) - Construction of Austria’s first public monument naming all…

It’s one thing for churches to advocate belief in the supernatural. It’s another when they’re literally asking God to bring about another Holocaust — not metaphorically — in order to “destroy the Jews like vermin.” That was allegedly the case at Brazil’s Geracao Jesus Cristo church, where Pastor Tupirani da…

In late March, the organisers of Ruhrtriennale, an annual music and arts festival that takes place in the Ruhr area of Germany, announced that the Cameroonian philosopher and post-colonial theorist, Achille Mbembe, would be delivering the keynote address at this year's event. Mbembe, a professor at the University of the…

Several civil rights groups, including the The Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP, are calling for an advertising boycott of Facebook on Wednesday, claiming the tech giant isn’t doing enough to weed out misinformation and “hate speech.” The campaign launched with a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times. In…

A German neo-Nazi spent years plotting the murder of a local mayor after attending a speech where he defended refugees, prosecutors have claimed. Stephan Ernst, a 46-year-old with previous convictions for violence towards immigrants, went on trial Tuesday for the murder of Walter Luebcke, a regional council chief in the…

Communications executive Michelle Slavich is exiting Warner Bros. Pictures for a top role at Netflix, Variety can report exclusively, where she will oversee strategy for all content verticals. Slavich has been named the streamer’s vice president of publicity, where she will lead efforts for series, film and documentary programming in…

Photo courtesy of MAPSRick Doblin, PhD, (@rickdoblin) is the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He received his doctorate in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he wrote his dissertation on the regulation of the medical uses of psychedelics and marijuana…

The SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has laid a charge against a Pretoria woman for allegedly posting antisemitic messages on social media.Kriel allegedly wrote that "the f***n Jews are greedy as f**k", and that German dictator Adolf Hitler was "innocent" of the Holocaust. The SAJBD told News24 that Kriel was…

Tens of thousands of anti-racism protesters took to the streets in cities across Germany this weekend, in what may be the largest demonstrator turnout outside of the United States. In Berlin, organizers expected 1,500 people to show up. Instead, an estimated 15,000 protested in Alexanderplatz, Berlin’s city center, with signs…

The sign above the steel gates of Auschwitz reads "arbeit macht frei" - work sets you free. It was, of course, a chilling lie, an evil hoax. But there was one surprising source of temporary escape inside the camps:  music. Under the bleakest conditions imaginable, prisoners wrote and played music,…