This weekend marks 75 years since the start of the Nuremberg tribunals, which tried leaders of Nazi Germany for their part in the Holocaust and other war crimes.
A clear line links these …
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By Melanie Phillips
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11/25/20
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One of the latest political disputes in Israel is happening in an unlikely place — the national Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem.
News emerged in August that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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11/19/20
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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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Any other day of the year would have been easier for the head rabbi of Thessaloniki, Greece, to welcome Mike Pompeo for a visit.
The Secretary of State’s schedule for a whirlwind tour of …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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10/1/20
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The late Holocaust scholar and survivor Professor Israel Gutman, a founder of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and …
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Commentary by Robert Rozett and Richelle Budd Caplan
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10/1/20
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Over two-days, beginning on Sept. 29, 1941, almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv was wiped out at a ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Babyn Yar (also referred to as Babi Yar).
The …
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By Judy Lash Balint, JNS
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10/1/20
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The Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski recalled his agonized reaction as he walked around the Warsaw Ghetto for the second day in a row in mid-1942, about one year before the historic Jewish …
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By Ben Cohen
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9/9/20
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The British baroness Ruth Deech, whose family were Jewish refugees from Nazism, recently delivered an impassioned address to the Oxford Jewish community about the way the Holocaust is being …
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By Melanie Phillips
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7/28/20
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In May, a demolition crew tore down a building in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen. As the walls fell, a 110-year-old advertising mural on the adjacent brick wall was exposed.
It …
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By Toby Axelrod, JTA
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7/9/20
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Nearly 80 years after the last train sent Jews to almost certain death from the main railway station in Wurzburg, a memorial to those who perished was dedicated in the German …
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By Toby Axelrod, JTA
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7/3/20
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