Holocaust

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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Arie Even had a knack for survival.Arie Even, 88, became the first, and so far only, Israeli to die of COVID-19. (Even family / Handout)As a youth, with the help of his grandfather, he managed to hide out in a countryside basement from the Nazis who slaughtered more than 500,000…

Preparing new ward to receive coronavirus patientsFlash 90 At least two Orthodox Jews have died in London and another in Paris because of the coronavirus. Rabbi Ze’ev Willy Stern, a Holocaust survivor, was 86 when he died over the weekend. One of his children is in the hospital and receiving…

Quentin Tarantino's first AD talks about the secretive final act of the film in a new interview with Filmmaker Magazine. Editor’s Note: Spoilers ahead for the ending of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Quentin Tarantino’s longtime first assistant director William Paul Clark didn’t start out in the pictures —…

By Jonmaesha Beltran | – (Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – Seventy-five years after the atrocities of Auschwitz, memories of the Holocaust are fading for younger generations who learn little about genocides in school, according to education advocates who believe they have the answer: Make it Arizona law to teach about…

Download They Wore a Purple Triangle Maud lives in France and works in a school where she assists disabled children during classes. Recently the students in one class were learning about the Holocaust and Nazi concentration camps. Camp prisoners had to wear a colored patch sewn onto their uniform. The…

Amazon will stop selling Hitler's and other Nazi books on its site, according to a report. Johannes Simon / Stringer/ Getty Images Amazon is banning the sale of most editions of Adolph Hitler's political manifesto and other Nazi-authored books on its site, according to a report from The Guardian on…

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…