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Growin­g number of tour guides have been interr­upted by extrem­ists right-wing propag­ating revisi­onist theori­es Founded in 2013, the AfD is now the largest opposition party in Germany's parliament, and many of its key figures have attacked the long-standing culture of atonement for Nazi crimes. PHOTO: AFP BERLIN: From swastikas sprayed on…

The head of social media at Auschw­itz Museum posts photos of victim­s of the former Nazi German death camp on Twitte­r For the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz, Twitter has become a powerful tool in Holocaust education. PHOTO: AFP Every day, Pawel Sawicki, head of social media at the…

Berlin (AFP) - From swastikas sprayed on the walls to Hitler salute selfies, far-right provocations are a growing problem at the sites of former Nazi concentration camps in Germany.Museum directors have sounded the alarm over a spike in incidents, which include visitors writing messages of Holocaust denial in the guestbook…

JTA — Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial based in Jerusalem, is creating a global name-reading initiative to mark this year’s Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Since gathering for the annual national Yom Hashoah ceremony and smaller community ceremonies in Israel are impossible this year due to coronavirus related restrictions,…

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Lesley Stahl reports on an innovative project that uses artificial intelligence technology to allow people to talk with Holocaust survivors, even after their death. For Stahl, it meant continuing a conversation she started with a survivor almost three decades ago.Speaking with Holocaust survivors who've diedHow…

Disgraced comedian Louis C.K. has returned with a surprise stand-up special, after admitting to several accounts of sexual misconduct in the 2010s. He was one of the first men in Hollywood whose behavior came to light during the #MeToo movement, but he started to re-emerge in comedy clubs in 2018…

Andy Ngo temporarily uploaded a new Twitter banner on Tuesday created by a prominent white nationalist cartoonist. The self-described journalist, who gained widespread attention after being attacked while covering a left-wing protest last year, praised the image in a now-deleted tweet. “More accurate than most mainstream news stories I’ve read…

The 14th casualty of the coronavirus in Israel was a 94-year-old woman who caught the disease at a nursing facility she had moved into earlier this year after allegedly being abused by a caregiver in her own home. Perel Wiesel of Rehovot, who died on Sunday, was a member of…