Holocaust

In honor of the fast-approaching 92nd Academy Awards—airing this Sunday, February 9—Film Club is looking back at the Best Picture nominees we didn’t cover last year. The last nominee on the list is Taika Waititi’s “anti-hate satire,” Jojo Rabbit, a film that is part-Holocaust drama, part-broad satire, but wholly unremarkable.…

January 27 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the deadliest Nazi concentration camp, by Soviet forces. Liliana Segre was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 with her father, who perished in the camp. Many years after the camps were liberated, she began speaking publicly about what she went…

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's departure from the royal family could propel Kate Middleton to "step forward" within her role, according to a royal expert. While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex enjoy spending time in Canada, the Duchess of Cambridge has been…

Sexually abusive clergy vie with celebrities in this week’s tawdry tabloids. “America’s Dirty Clergy Revealed!” screams the ’National Enquirer’ headline above a story claiming to name “4,120 Predator Priests.” Hundreds of Catholic priests accused of sex offenses are named across four densely-packed pages of small print in what promises to…

South Dakota lawmakers are scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would make it a crime for doctors to treat transgender children younger than 16 with puberty blockers or offer gender confirmation surgeries. The vote comes a day after South Dakota state …

Amos Barshad | Longreads | January 2020 | 20 minutes (4,985 words) In the spring of 2019 I start getting emails from a guy in Poland named Grzegorz Kwiatkowski. He’s a poet and a musician from Gdansk, a midsize town on the north coast of Poland, on the Baltic Sea.…

DescriptionThis campaign aims to take dimension of the amount of jews who were murdered during the 54 months the Auschwitz lasted and bring this forward January 27 on International Holocaust memorial day. Read More

by Lori Dorn on January 28, 2020 “Gam zeh ya’avor” …This too shall pass”. In honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp on January 28, 2020 (International Holocaust Remembrance Day), AARP shared an incredibly poignant and powerful video featuring Holocaust survivor and author Michael Bornstein.…

Some of the last living survivors of the Holocaust have shared their emotional testimonies as they marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland. More than 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were killed at Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull…

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz — a key part of a series of watershed World War II anniversaries this year — all eyes will be on Germany. Angela Merkel set the tone with a moving and highly reflective spee…