Holocaust

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…

You’re a real-life Jew-perhero now,” goes a line from Amazon Prime Video’s Hunters, the alternative history thriller series that premiered last month — it’s a significant line for a show that directly references superhero comics in nearly every episode. In a way, it betrays both the strengths and the weaknesses…

Born in Lodz, Poland, Foer spent her early childhood in a displaced persons camp in Germany, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors who grew up just miles apart and married in 1945. She is, more famously, the mother of three best-selling writers, Jonathan, Franklin, and Joshua Foer, all of whom…

NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn caterer Israel Frischman is continuing to prepare dozens of meals for elderly Holocaust survivors even though the Jewish community center that provides them owes him money. The Nachas Health and Family Network in Brooklyn has been forced to suspend its counseling services, exercise classes and…

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