Holocaust

A week after Delhi’s riots, India and Myanmar were the subjects of discussion at a hearing in Washington organised by an independent bipartisan federal government commission, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).In addition to discussing the Rohingya situation in Myanmar , the hearing also focussed on the National…

Updated March 06, 2020 16:21:30 In 1939, more than 1,200 Jews were saved from the horrors of Nazi concentration camps by a man with a list.While many people know of Oskar Schindler — the hero made famous by Thomas Keneally's novel and Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List — there…

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Vatican City (AFP) - Historians will begin combing the archives of the world's most contentious pope on Monday, hoping to glean why Pius XII stayed silent during the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust.More than 200 researchers have applied for permission to settle in one of the small studies…

When The March, TIME’s virtual reality re-creation of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, opens to the public on Friday at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History, visitors will be able to experience being part of the crowd on the day in 1963 when Martin Luther…

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Amazon pulled listings for English-language copies of an illustrated children’s book written by Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher in 1938 called The Poisoned Mushroom from its website after a U.K.-based charity called The Holocaust Educational Trust complained. Unfortunately, a…

Courtesy of Amazon Prime Recreating moments of the Holocaust for film or television is not an easy task, especially for an actor. Not only do you have to be respectful of the victims and their stories, but they also have to inhabit a very dark mental state in order to…

Photo: Christopher Saunders (Amazon)Late last week, the Auschwitz Memorial—the organization that maintains the former Nazi concentration camp, both as a testament to the victims who died there, and as a reminder of the atrocities that occurred—issued a short statement criticizing Jordan Peele and David Weil’s new Amazon series Hunters. Specifically,…

A century before computing pioneer Alan Turing comforted his dead soul-mate’s mother, and perhaps himself, with the insistence that “the body provides something for the spirit to look after and use,” and generations before Rilke defiantly refused to become “one of those who neglect the body in order to make…