HOLOCAUST

Remembering the Last Survivor of a German Anti-Nazi Resistance Group

“We will not keep silent. We are your guilty conscience. The White Rose will not let you alone.”

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, Let’s Honor the Heroes

He risked his own life every hour of every day in order to snatch thousands from the jaws of the Holocaust.

In Previously Unheard Tapes, Adolf Eichmann Incriminates Himself as the Architect of the Holocaust

Eichmann, relaxed and holding court on the tapes, proves to be a calculating and brutal individual delighting in what he did best: murdering Jews.

Ken Burns Unmasks the Opposite of Love—Indifference—In Scathing Magnum Opus, The U.S. and the Holocaust

As of a 1938 poll, two-thirds of Americans feel the persecution “has been partly or entirely the Jews’ own fault.”

The Arolsen Holocaust Archives—A New Book Awakens Both Our Sense of Beauty & Responsibility

These photographs are proof of what happens when bigotry, fanaticism and blind obedience go unchecked.

“The Will to Create Is the Same as the Will to Live”—Achieving Immortality Through Holocaust Art

In 1944, a courageous band of artists at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt cobbled together a play inspired by the joke—a black comedy entitled The Last Cyclist, in which bicycle riders are blamed for all of civilization’s woes and are hunted down and killed, one by one.

Anti-Semitism and the Festival of Lights

When I was traveling through Arkansas with a business partner, our host pointed out a burned-out establishment and proclaimed it was “Jew fire,” implying it was arson for profit, set to collect insurance proceeds.

Anti-Semitism 101, Part 1: The Roots of the Movement

The Jews, then, were set apart in the ancient world, a factor that worked both for them—preserving a unique and imperishable identity—and against them, making them stand out as “different,” and hence a people to be watched closely and suspiciously.

The Mystery of Goodness

One diplomat in particular, a Japanese man by the name of Chiune Sugihara, worked day and night, against the wishes of his government, to personally rescue more than 2,000 Jews. He paid for it by spending the rest of his days carrying other people’s bags as a harbor porter—a life sentence of back-breaking labor as the reward for a man with a heart of gold who deserved the world.

What You Can Do About Ignorance and Hate

We do not have to hate each other, we do not have to fight, we do not have to natter and criticize and we do not have to be as desperately unhappy as so many of us are when filled with disgust for our fellow man.

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