George Carlin was wrong, there aren’t seven words you can’t say on television — there should be nine. The last two words should be “Hitler” and “Nazi.” …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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4/20/17
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More than 1,000 attendees from along the east coast are expected to attend an all-encompassing full day conference on the Shoah at Hofstra University.
The June 8 event, entitled “Generations,” will feature speakers, films, workshops, panel discussions and reunion rooms.
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By Malka Eisenberg
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5/21/14
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From Anne Frank’s diary to Elie Wiesel’s “Night,” books about the Holocaust remain some of the most powerful and well-known pieces of literature published in the past century. …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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4/20/17
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In May 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) gifted the world an opportunity to abandon subjective decisions of what qualifies as anti-Semitism. The IHRA, 31 nations …
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By Rhoda Smolow
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10/14/20
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Seventy-two years ago to the date that Marion Blumenthal’s family — her father, Walter; her mother, Ruth; and Marion and her brother, Albert — were liberated from the Bergen-Belsen …
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By Jeffrey Bessen
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4/20/17
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Max Merten had been a loyal employee of Hitler’s Third Reich. Yet a few years later, he became an esteemed official in the new German Democracy’s Justice Ministry. …
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By Celia Weintrob
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5/15/19
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A television program airing this week on PBS links an incredible Holocaust escape story — which climaxed on the last day of Pesach in 1944 — to advanced scientific …
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By Tom Tugend, JTA
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4/20/17
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At the International Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem last Thursday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier lamented his country’s role in the atrocities of World War II and condemned the …
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By Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany
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1/29/20
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Looking through the barbed wire of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 14-year-old Nanette Konig could barely recognize her friend and classmate from Amsterdam, Anne Frank.
Both girls had been …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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4/20/17
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Armani, known for being sleek and polished, recently stumbled. Big time.
It all started in early April when a private citizen named Janet Rosenblatt spotted a striped jacket in the window of …
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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein
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4/28/21
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