Holocaust

RuPaul may have just stepped in something bad. The Emmy-winning reality host suggested to NPR’s Terry Gross that he leases mineral rights for his Wyoming/South Dakota ranch to fracking companies. RuPaul owns the ranch with his husband, Georges LeBar. Gross asked if Ru & Georges raise cattle or horses on…

JTA — The director of the Holocaust foundation founded by Steven Spielberg has called on Amazon Prime to not produce a second season of “Hunters,” its fictional show about a crew of Nazi hunters in 1970s America. “Survivors of the Shoah sought justice, not revenge,” renowned Holocaust scholar Stephen Smith…

The chief of Germanys domestic intelligence agency (BfV) has described far-right terrorism and extremism as the biggest danger facing democracy in Germany, as his agency put part of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) under formal surveillance. T… Read More

DALLAS, March 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, February 19th MYCON General Contractors, Inc. (MYCON) donated $35,000 to the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum (DHHRM) in honor of its new exhibition, The Fight for Civil Rights in the South.Pictured: Charles R. Myers, Mary Pat Higgins, and Mark Zoradi"It is…

Two former staffers for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) didn't expect the intense online blowback from proudly showing off their tattoos to commemorate their time on her failed presidential campaign. Many saw the tattoos as far too similar to the tattoos forced upon Jewish captives by the Nazis during World War…

WASHINGTON — Éva Szekely never forgot the Hungarian fascist who, in the winter of 1944, passed over her in a roundup of Jews to be shot on the banks of the Danube River in Budapest. He had one gray eye and one brown, a visage seared into her memory.Ms. Szekely…

Henry James stared at the glyph saying ‘denied’. He was pretty sure it said denied. The Blash’s writing looked like bowls of spaghetti dropped on a long-haired carpet, but the left-facing hook usually meant ‘no’, and the two inverted whorls meant ‘official’, ‘power’, and occasionally ‘flushing things down the toilet’.“But…

Former staffers for Elizabeth Warren have been taken to the woodshed over tattoos meant to memorialize her ill-fated campaign – which just happen to closely resemble markings given to Holocaust concentration camp prisoners. Oops! Intending to commemorate the Democratic senator’s failed bid for the presidency, at least two former Warren…

“Birkenau.” The dread name—of the main death facilities at Auschwitz—entitles four large abstract paintings and four full-sized digital reproductions of them in the last gallery of “Painting After All,” a peculiarly solemn Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Met Breuer. The works are based on four clandestine photographs that were smuggled…

A commuter wears a face mask in the New York City transit system, Monday, March 9, 2020, in New York. New York continued grappling Monday with the new coronavirus, as case numbers, school closings and other consequences grew. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)Read More