Holocaust

1.Thousands of people had journeyed to the ruins of Waldeck Castle, a collection of stone arches, mossy walls, and eroded towers on a ridge in the Hunsrück mountains of West Germany. It was May 1967, the fourth spring in a row that a folk festival had been staged at the…

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Daniel Lubetzky is the founder and executive chairman of Kind and the Kind Foundation, which recently launched the Frontline Impact Project to support those risking their lives to keep us safe. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author; view more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)Five years…

Princeton University associate professor of African American Studies and Just Data Lab director Dr. Ruha Benjamin said engineers creating AI models should consider more than data sets when deploying systems. She further asserted that “computational depth without historic or sociological depth is superficial learning.” “An ahistoric and asocial approach to…

Visiting family is surely one of the things many are missing the most right now as lockdown and social distancing measures prevent people from seeing the ones they love, so one Toronto family had a creative idea to visit their father/grandfather without actually breaking any rules.  Avi Minkowitz's grandfather is…

TEL AVIV — A U.S. military band surprised a Holocaust survivor this week by playing the Israeli national anthem to him via Zoom to mark the 75th anniversary of his liberation by American forces from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany.Abba Naor, 92, was the youngest survivor of Dachau concentration…

“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task,” the young Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in an existential exhale of a letter to his…

Students for Justice in Palestine have received awards from both Tufts and New York University. Both ... awards have been denounced by the school administrations. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images The President, Provost, and various Deans of Tufts University have denounced the giving…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption"I was a skeleton" - Henri Kichka lost his whole family in AuschwitzOne of Belgium's last Holocaust survivors, Henri Kichka, has died of Covid 19.He passed away on Saturday in a Brussels care home at the age of 94.He was one of…

By MAKSYMILIAN DEL MAR Review of The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, by Paul Roth Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2020 For those of us invested in defending the epistemic value of history, especially when facing arguments made by skeptical analytical philosophers, Paul Roth’s work will already be well-known. So far, it has arrived in gleaming, landmark…