Holocaust

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

Throughout history, crisis and human progress have often gone hand in hand. While the growing COVID-19 threat could strengthen nationalism and isolationism and accelerate the retreat from globalization, the outbreak also could spur a new wave of international cooperation of the sort that emerged after World War II. COVID-19 may…

By the Specialist Reporting Team's Brad Ryan Updated March 11, 2020 12:03:19 As experts try to get a handle on how the coronavirus outbreak might play out, they are making comparisons to past outbreaks like SARS, MERS and swine flu.Some credible experts are even likening the COVID-19 outbreak to the…

By: Reuters | Vatican City | Published: March 6, 2020 5:24:45 pm General view of St. Peter’s Square after the Vatican reports its first case of coronavirus, at the Vatican, March 6, 2020. (Reuters)The Vatican said on Friday that a patient in its health services had tested positive for the…

CANFIELD — 898 Marketing has been named Agency of Record for the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, located in Maitland.  The Canfield agency will assist with digital marketing strategy, developing social media content and strategy, media planning and buying, creative design development and video production. “While we…