Holocaust

A protester at the "Re-Open Illinois" protest outside the Thompson Center in Chicago on May 1, 2020.Jim Vondruska/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe official Twitter account of the Auschwitz memorial in Poland condemned a sign that bore a Nazi slogan at an anti-lockdown rally in Chicago on Friday.The sign, belonging to an…

The official Twitter account of the Auschwitz memorial in Poland condemned a sign that bore a Nazi slogan at an anti-lockdown rally in Chicago on Friday.The sign, belonging to an unidentified woman, read: "Arbeit Macht Frei, JB," referring to the Illinois governor JB Pritzker who is of Jewish descent. The Auschwitz…

In his much-celebrated 2016 memoir, East West Street, Philippe Sands deftly wove together the story of a personal quest to uncover family secrets in the Ukrainian city of Lviv with the great arcs of global history that surrounded them the Nazi occupation of L… Read More

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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…