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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.”
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Toronto’s First Holocaust Museum Now “A Place to Hear from Survivors Long After They’re Gone”
Toronto, home to just under half of Canada’s 335,000 Jews, now has its own Holocaust museum.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Fragility of Hate
From the perspective of this planet and possibly the whole universe, then, Hate has existed for less time than it takes to boil an egg.
