Holocaust

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…

In a scene in Claude Lanzmann’s groundbreaking documentary Shoah, historian Raul Hilberg, a giant in the world of Holocaust research, sits in his study in a wintry Vermont. He has a piece of paper in his hand: a typical traffic order, a Fahrplananordnung, with number 587, he explains, regarding a…

Customer behavior analytics and autonomous manufacturing technologies among hottest trends in the Covid-19 era; The new normal at JVP: robots, temperature taking tech, and 3D printed masks CTech 13:5421.04.20 Interview | Customer behavior analytics and autonomous manufacturing technologies among hottest trends in the Covid-19 era. Uzi Scheffer, the CEO of…

Rep. Heather Scott (R-Idaho) is facing criticism after comparing Idaho’s fight against the coronavirus to the policies of Nazi Germany. During an interview last Thursday on a podcast known as the “Jess Fields Show,” Scott attacked the state’s Republican Governor Brad Little who labeled certain people as nonessential workers. “I…

‘Throughout the Holocaust, in the shadow of their unprecedented persecution by the German Nazi regime and their collaborators, there were Jews who endeavored to save their fellow Jews – often beyond their immediate family or acquaintances. The conditions for rescue were not always ripe and the attempts were not always…