Treblinka: Revealing the Hidden Graves of the Holocaust
BBC News Magazine, January 22, 2012
Any doubt about the existence of mass graves at the Treblinka death camp in Poland are being laid to rest by the first survey of the site using tools that see below the ground, writes forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls.
Remembering Wannsee
The Jerusalem Post, January 18, 2012
On January 20, 1942, the Nazi leadership gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin and adopted the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." The Wannsee Conference, as this became known, from the suburb where the meeting was held, formalized the process that exterminated so much of European Jewry.
Sweden Launches Probe into Fate of Holocaust Hero
Reuters, January 18, 2012
Sweden has commissioned a new inquiry into the fate of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War Two but disappeared after being arrested by advancing Soviet troops in 1945.
Mass Graves at Nazi Death Camp Treblinka Proves Holocaust Deniers Wrong
Huffington Post, January 17, 2012
A British forensic archaeologist has unearthed fresh evidence to prove the existence of mass graves at the Nazi death camp Treblinka.
Search Begins for Holocaust Refugees Rescued by "Unsung Hero"
The Gazette, January 16, 2012
A global search has been launched for Holocaust refugees saved by a little-known Portuguese diplomat stationed in France during the Second World War - a man described as "one of the great unsung heroes" of the era by renowned Canadian writer Peter C. Newman, who credits the maverick consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes with helping his own family escape the Nazi death chambers.
Holocaust Orphan Find New Relatives
Jewish World, January 16, 2012
The phone at the Hecht home in Rehovot hasn't stopped ringing. The family has been receiving exciting reactions from all across the globe ever since Ynet published Martin Hecht's story as part of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Remember Me" project, which aims to locate 1,100 orphaned children who survived the Holocaust.
Search is Launched for Families Who Escaped the Holocaust Through Portugal
Market Watch, January 9, 2012
The Sousa Mendes Foundation is seeking to identify and locate Holocaust refugees who were given life-saving visas by Aristides de Soussa Mendes in the Spring of 1940. Sousa Mendes, the Portugese consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, rescued an estimated 30,000 people from the Holocaust.
In Poland, Unburying a Nation's Jewish Past
NBC News World Blog, January 6, 2012
Zuzanna Radzik wants Polish children to know that almost every Polish town and village was part of the Holocaust. There were about 3.5 million Jews in Poland before World War II, making up 10 percent of the overall Polish population. And in some pre-war Polish towns, Jews comprised as much as 70 percent of the residents.
The First Killings of the Holocaust
New York Times, January 3, 2012
On the brisk winter Tuesday of January 20, 1942, 15 Nazi officials assembled at a lakeside villa on the Wannsee near Berlin to deliberate on the "final solution." This month, the world marks the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, one of the pivotal moments in Holocaust history.
A Disquieting Book from Hitler's Library
New York Times, December 7, 2011
On Thursday, a Manhattan auction house will be accepting bids on one of the more disturbing books to come onto the U.S. antiquarian book market in some time: Adolf Hitler's personal copy of a city-by-city, state-by-state guide to the location of the America's Jewish population.
Hans Litten: The Man Who Annoyed Adolf Hitler
BBC News Magazine, August 19, 2011
A new drama tells the story of a Jewish lawyer who confronted Hitler 80 years ago - earning the dictator's life-long hatred. So who was Hans Litten?
At Auschwitz, Future U.S. Military Leaders Learn What Not to Do
NBC News World Blog, August 5, 2011
In an upstairs room at the only remaining synagogue in Oswiecim, 37 miles west of Krakow, 13 future American military officers, clad in jeans and T-shirts, were wrestling with ethical questions in the shadow of Auschwitz.
Bill Would Boost Holocaust Survivors Seeking Aging Services
JTA, August 3, 2011
U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida sponsored a bill that would give Holocaust survivors preference in obtaining aging services.
Book Prompts Questions in Wallenberg Case
UPI, August 2, 2011
Researchers say Russia intentionally withheld information about a Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
Poland Earmarks Funds for Auschwitz Memorial
boston.com, August 2, 2011
Poland's government has earmarked funds to improve accessibility to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
From Mussolini's Estate to Shoah Memorial
The Jewish Daily Forward, July 29, 2011
In August, the city of Rome is expected to give its final approval to plans for Italy's new Holocaust museum, the Museo Nazionale della Shoah.
Project HEART's Comprehensive Archive o Jewish Holocaust Victims' Assets Now Contains 1.5 Million Records
PRNewswire, July 25, 2011
Project HEART announced today that its searchable database of Holocaust era property records now contains 1.5 million records, making the database the largest, publically available single-source database of lost Jewish property assets from the Holocaust era.
Filmmakers Still Find Stories to Tell About the Holocaust
Washington Post, July 22, 2011
It's called "Holocaust exhaustion" - the feeling that there have been so many films about the destruction of European Jewry that it's time to say "enough already." Or is it?
Connecticut Auction House Says it has Sold Journals of Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele, Sparking Criticism
Washington Post, July 22, 2011
A Connecticut auction house says it has sold the journals written by Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele.
"Sarah's Key" Looks at Holocaust's Lasting Impact
Reuters, July 22, 2011
Seven decades have passed since French police arrested thousands of Parisian Jews and sent them to death camps in an incident know as the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, but for some, the guilt still lingers.
New Angle on an Oft-Visited Nightmare
New York Times, July 15, 2011
The French filmmaker Gilles Paquet-Brenner was aware he was taking on a subject that was daunting, unpopular and overworked. ... Mr. Paquet-Brenner was suggesting that his latest, "Sarah's Key," might be the Holocaust movie for this moment.
Plaques in Prague Commemorate Holocaust Victims
New York Times, July 11, 2011
The small bronze cobblestones can be easy to miss, but they are scattered, in plain sight, all over the streets of Prague and numerous other cities across Europe.
Auschwitz - a Derbyshire Student's Plea
Derbyshire Times, July 7, 2011
When Chesterfield student Nick Baskerville, 17, visited Auschwitz with a group of A-Level students, the experience left him profoundly moved. This resulting article is an account of what he saw and carries a plea from the heart to all of us to learn the lessons from the past.
Ukraine's Vanished Jews, A Series of Articles
Kyiv Post, June 24, 2011
• Ukraine's Vanquished Jews from World War II. June 24, 2011
• Ukraine's Vanquished Jews: 'Their Fate was Clear to Them'. June 30, 2011
• Surviving the Holocaust in Lviv. (Coming Soon)
Israel Ambassador Salutes Pope Pius XII for Sheltering Jews from Holocaust
CatholicCulture.org, June 24, 2011
Israel's ambassador to the Holy See has confirmed that Pope Pius XII was responsible for protecting many Jews from the Holocaust.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Remember Me? Project
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, June 9, 2011
This past April, Jean-Claude Goldbrenner typed his name into Google. To his amazement, the first search result was a photo of himself taken in the 1940s at the end of World War II. Jean-Claude is a Holocaust survivor. The photo he found is part of Remember Me?, the Museum's innovative effort to identify more than 1,100 photos of children who were separated from their families during the Holocaust. Jean-Clause shares his story.
A Fight Over Anne Frank's Fallen Tree
The New York Times, June 8, 2011
From the window in the attic of her family's hiding place in Amsterdam, Anne Frank could see the crown of an old chestnut tree growing in a neighbor's garden. For two years, it was her only contact with nature. The tree is gone now, having fallen during a storm in August, but its memory lives on - not in the diary, but in a nasty dispute over its remains.
Hitler's First Anit-Semitic Writing Finds a Buyer
The New York Times, June 7, 2011
In 1919, a soldier in Munich discovered that he could galvanize small groups of fellow trench warfare veterans with virulently anti-Semitic diatribes. A superior officer, impressed with the soldier's oratorical skills, asked him to commit his ideas to paper. Out of that came the first written record of Adolf Hitler's obsessive hostility toward Jews, an embryonic form of the worldview that would later lead to the Holocaust and millions of deaths.
Sobibor Museum Closes Due to Lack of Funds
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 2, 2011
The museum in Poland on the grounds of the death camp, Sobibor, announced Thursday that it closed because the regional government did not provide enough funding to keep it open, the German press agency dpa reported.
New Memorial to Gay Holocaust Victims to be Built in Munich
Pink News, May 31, 2011
The German city of Munich, where the Nazis raided gay bars in the early days of the Third Reich, is to have a new memorial dedicated to the gay and lesbian victims of the Holocaust.
Mass Graves Database to go Online
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 16, 2011
Information gleaned from Father Patrick Desbois' years-long search for mass Jewish graves in Eastern Europe will be made available on a database. Desbois' organization, Yahad-In Unum, has joined with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Jewish Committee to set up an online database of his finding since 2004 of mass graves in more than 600 towns and villages in Belarus, Ukraine, Russian and Poland.
Justice Breyer Recalls Legal Lessons of the Holocaust
Washington Wire, May 17, 2011
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Tuesday capped the National Days of Remembrance, the congressionally man dated commemoration of the Holocaust, by focusing on a legal legacy stretching from the Nuremberg Tribunal to present-day efforts to hold war criminals accountable, such as the International Criminal Court.
Demjanjuk in Munich
The New York Times, May 16, 2011
Last week a German court in Munich found John Demjanjuk guilty of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder, one for each of the Jews exterminated during the six months that he worked as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Poland.
7 Decades After Hitler's Fall, German Grandchildren of Nazis Delve into Family Past
Associated Press, May 13, 2011
Rainer Hoess was 12 when he found out his grandfather was one of the worst mass murderers in history.
Demjanjuk Conviction Shows Holocaust Criminals are Held Accountable
Haaretz.com, May 13, 2011
John Demjanjuk was handed a five-year sentence by a Munich court for his involvement in the murders at the Sobibor Camp in German-occupied Poland.
New Web Sites Help Track Nazi Plunder. The Timing Couldn't Be More Urgent
Forbes, May 8, 2011
New online databases, along with recently-discovered photographs, may help resolve one of the most controversial unresolved legacies of the Holocaust - locating and returning the art, jewels, and other assets stolen and seized by the Nazis from European Jews.
500,000 Holocaust Era Names Online
J-Wire, May 5, 2011
For the first time in its history, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is making a collection of its historic records and photographs from the Holocaust period available online. The new site enables the public, especially Holocaust survivors and their families, to perform searches for themselves or others.
Eyewitness to Genocide: He Was the First to Warn of the Holocaust, But No One Believed Him
Daily Mail / UK , May 4, 2011
Jan Karski nervously crawled through the dank, underground tunnel in wartime Warsaw, not to freedom, but to become an eyewitness to the "world of the dead" known as the Warsaw Ghetto.
Trove of Historic Records of Holocaust Goes Online
Associated Press, May 2, 2011
A trove of papers and photographs documenting the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors includes notable names like Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. With over 500,000 names and more than 1,000 photographs, the searchable collection documents the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's vast efforts during World War Ii and the postwar era
Holocaust Survivor Preserves Treblinka in Art
BBC News, May 1, 2011
Samuel Willenberg, now 87, is one of the last two known survivors of the Treblinka extermination camp. His two sisters were killed there. Now living in Israel, he hopes that one day his statues can be a part of a museum at Treblinka.
Irreverence Now Shoah Teaching Tool
The Jewish Week, April 27, 2011
After years of Holocaust farces, observers debate the uses of irony or graphic novels when it comes to Holocaust remembrance.
Israel, Jewish Agency Launch Global Effort to Locate Property Lost in Holocaust
Haaretz.com, February 21, 2011
The Israeli government and the Jewish Agency are launching a new worldwide initiative to identify Jewish property lost or stolen during the Holocaust with the goal of obtaining restitution for survivors or their heirs.
Sephardic Jews Call for Truth on Bulgaria's Role in Holocaust
Arutz Sheva, February 14, 2011
Members of the Sephardic Jewish community are calling on the government of Bulgaria to reveal the truth over its interaction with the Jews during the Holocaust.
New York Museum Develops Holocaust Curriculum for Students, Educators
Jewish Tribune, February 9, 2011
To launch a Holocaust curriculum in the year 2011 is to wade into a me-too minefield. Educators have laboured to produce what they see as the best materials about the 20th century's singular horror, and they have come at it from all angles. So much so, that you have to wonder how many new angles are left to cover.
Holocaust Education Program Threatened
The State, February 9, 2011
Some members of South Carolina's Jewish community, including Holocaust survivors, are worried that $31,000 a year in state money for Holocaust education programs could be cut from the state Department of Education's budget.
Jan Gross' New Book Accuses Poles of Profiting from Jews' Death
Global Post, February 8, 2011
Leaked copies of a new book have sparked controversy by accusing Poles of actively profiting from the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jewish people.
Holocaust Remembrance: Who Owns Memory?
The Huffington Post, February 1, 2011
January 27 marks the International Day of Holocaust Remembrance, established by the United Nations in 2005 to remember past crimes with an eye toward preventing them in the future.
Forgotten Strings Recall Holocaust Horror
CNN World, January 27, 2011
Hidden in a basement in central Tel Aviv, amidst the smell of sawdust and varnish, is a musical workshop whose owner and son have spent the past 15 years tracking down violins played by Jewish Holocaust victims and bringing the instruments back to life.
Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorated Around the World
msnbc.com Photo Blog, January 27, 2011
International Holocaust Remembrance day marks the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, on January 27, 1945.
Roma Survivor Cites "Forgotten Holocaust"
Reuters, January 27, 2011
The first Sinti and Roma keynote speaker at Germany's Holocaust remembrance day told parliament on Thursday the mass murder of Roma during the Nazi era was the "forgotten Holocaust" as they continue to suffer across Europe.
Google Archive Brings Holocaust Memory into the Digital Age
Time, Inc. NewsFeed, January 27, 2011
The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Israel has announced it will be partnering with Google to create and easily accessible archive of 130,000 World War II-era photos.
French Rail Company Apologizes for WWII Deportations
Radio France Internationale, January 25, 2011
The president of French rial company SNCF has apologized for his company's role in the Holocaust. Guillaume Pepy acknowledged on Tuesday that SNCF had been a "cog in the Nazi's extermination machine" during the Second World War.
UN Has a Duty to Speak Out for Human Rights
UN News Service, January 22, 2011
The United Nations, which was created in the aftermath of the Second World War, has a duty to stand up and speak out for human rights and offer a voice to the voiceless, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today at an event to remember the victims of the Holocaust.
Jewish Groups Push to Find Holocaust Mass Graves
The Washington Post, January 21, 2011
Jewish organizations launched a joint effort Friday to identify, protect and memorialize thousands of forgotten Holocaust mass graves across eastern Europe.
Honour, Shame Evoked in Memorial
The Chronicle Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 21, 2011
Symbolic. Geographical. Reflective. In memoriam.
A new remembrance monument at a museum in Halifax fits all four descriptive statements and evokes the stain of racism on its clean, shiny surface.
Making Holocaust Remembrance Matter, an opinion by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
The Jewish Daily Forward, January 19, 2011
On January 27, the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the United Nations and much of the world will be observing Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sadly, the rhetoric of commemoration will once again be severely undercut by the international community's wholly inadequate response to the numerous genocides that have taken place, and continue to take place, since the end of World War II.
Ending the War to End All Wars
The New York Times, December 25, 2010
Not many people noticed at the time, but World War I ended this year. Well, in a sense it did: On October 3, Germany finally paid off the interest on bonds that had been taken out by the shaky Weimar government in an effort to pay the war reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
The Past is Present
boston.com, December 12, 2010
A Boston University researcher stumbles upon a remarkable Holocaust artifact - and discovers that one of its creators lives just a few blocks away from him in Brookline.
Maker of 'Shoah' Stresses its Lasting Value
New York Times, December 6, 2010
Even at 85, Claude Lanzmann is not one to rest on his laurels or shirk a controversy. A quarter of a century after his documentary "Shoah" transformed the way the world regarded the Holocaust, the film is about to be re-released in the U.S. - an event he welcomes as long overdue.
Broken Boards to Memorialize Holocaust in Atlantic City
Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2010
A submission that depicts a broken stretch of Boardwalk - ruptured and fragmented by an unseen force - has been chosen as the final design for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust memorial, bringing an end to a yearling architectural competition that featured more than 700 submissions from 55 countries.
Canadian Shoah Survivor Reunites with Polish Savior
Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2010
Wladyslaw Misiuna, 85, from Poland, and Sara Marmurek, 88, from Canada had not seen each other since the war.
Holocaust Survivor to Receive Medal of Freedom
Jewish Ledger, November 23, 2010
Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissman Klein was among fifteen people to be named this week by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In the Name of the Mother: Ashes go to Treblinka
Associated Press, November 22, 2010
Alex Werber calmly strode toward a patch of black stones, pulled up his sleeves and opened a plastic bag to dump out its contents. "Goodbye, mom," he said, scattering her ashes at the former site of the Treblinka death camp in Poland, where the Nazis murdered 875,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
Holocaust Mass Grave Discovered in Romania
Indo-Asian News Service, November 6, 2010
Archeologists in Romania have discovered a mass grave containing the remains of over 100 Jews murdered during World War II, media reports said Saturday.
Game of Monopoly Gives Hope During Holocaust
KTHV, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 6, 2010
These are not your ordinary Monopoly players. Brothers Micha and Dan Glass were happy school children in 1938 - until the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia a year later turned their lives upside down.
On the Sidelines of the Holocaust
A Review of Prelude to Catastrophe: FDR's Jews and the Menace of Nazism
by Robert Shogan
McClatchy Newspapers, October 20, 2010
If Shogan's "Prelude to Catastrophe" is the story of a few powerful men, it is also a lesson in the actual limits of Jewish influence in American life.
How One Polish Woman Uncovered Her Town's Shocking Role in the Holocaust
The Herald-Scotland, October 20, 2010
In a dark corner of Poland that refuses to acknowledge its horrific treatment of Jews, an amateur photographer is reopening old wounds by tracing ghosts in her home town.
Records Show 10,000 Unreturned Nazi-Looted Artworks
Reuters-London, October 18, 2010
A new online database recording more than 20,000 works of art looted by the Nazis from Jews in France and Belgium during World War II shows that at least half have yet to be returned to their original owners.
Exhibit Explores How Hitler Taught a Nation to Hate
CNN World, October 15, 2010
Playing cards with images of Hitler. Toy fuhrers. And a lamp and church tapestry with swastikas emblazoned across the front. No, it's not a neo-Nazi convention. Rather, it is a groundbreaking exhibit that opened Friday in the German capital and is intended to show Adolf Hitler's relationship with the German people.
The Contemporary Relevance of a Discarded Nazi Propaganda Film
aish.com, September 13, 2010
If you thought that nothing new could still be said about the Holocaust you need to see Yael Hersonski's remarkable recently released documentary A Film Unfinished.
The Curious Case of Hitler's Signed Coy of the Nuremberg Laws
Posted by Michael Berenbaum
JewishJournal.com, September 2, 2010
The announcement that the Huntington Library has given its copy of the Nuremberg Laws personally signed by Adolf Hitler to the National Archives raises some interesting questions.
Martin Dannenberg Is Dead at 94; Found Nuremberg Laws Document
The New York Times | International Herald Tribune, August 28, 2010
It was April 28, 1945,and the war in Europe was in its final hours. Days earlier, Martin Dannenberg, an Army intelligence officer, had seen piles of dead bodies at Dachau, the concentration camp in Germany. He said they were stacked like cordwood. Now he was in a bank vault, opening an envelope sealed with red swastika embossments.
Anne Frank Tree Falls Over in Wind, Heavy Rain
msnbc.com, August 23, 2010
The monumental chestnut tree that cheered Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis was toppled by wind and heavy rain on Monday.
Catholic Course Faces Hard Truths of the Holocaust
boston.com, August 16, 2010
As she has many times before, Rena Finder recalled the day her family and thousands of others were forced from their homes and herded into the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland.
Iran Launches Cartoon Website Aimed at Questioning the Holocaust
European Jewish Congress, August 6, 2010
Iran has launched a website with cartoons on the Holocaust aimed at undermining the historic dimensions of the mass murder of Jews during World War II, Fars News Agency reported Thursday.
U.S. to Give $15m to Preserve Auschwitz
JPost.com, July 4, 2010
The U.S. will donate $15 million to preserve the remains of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Saturday. CNN reported on the speech at the Schindler Factory Museum in Krakow, Poland.
Student Research Finds Growth in Holocaust Denial, Reduction in Anti-Semitic Incidents
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 29, 2010
For Scott Darnell MPP 2010, an undergraduate course at the University of New Mexico on "Memories of the Holocaust" left a lasting impression. So much so that Darnell chose the issue of Holocaust denial in the U.S. as the topic for his Policy Analysis Exercise in his final months as a Harvard Kennedy School student.
On Holocaust Education
New York Times, June 28, 2010
In an article on June 18, Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, wrote that the teaching of the Holocaust should focus more on preventing ethnic conflict and genocide. Before questioning the value of Holocaust education, one should first address its goals: What, exactly, are we trying to achieve in teaching about the Holocaust? Is it realistic to expect that the study of the Holocaust will diminish human rights abuses and racism, and instead nurture democracy and tolerance? Will mixing the narrative of the Holocaust with other types of atrocities really encourage better human behavior?
Reflections About Text and Context
Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem
Seventh International Conference on Holocaust Education
June 13, 2010
Text of Professor Bauer's lecture at the Seventh International Conference on Holocaust Education.
Israel to Name Salvadoran to 'Righteous' List
CBS News, May 14, 2010
Israel's ambassador to El Salvador says a Salvadoran diplomat will be named as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations" for helping save Jews during World War II.
Athens Unveils Its First Holocaust Memorial
guardian.co.uk, May 9, 2010
It has taken nearly 70 years, but tomorrow, as the sun sets over Athens, a monument to honor Greece's Holocaust victims will finally be unveiled.
Klan Wiping Rags
Knol, by Lawrence D. Weiss
When Louis Miller, owner of the Tennessee Poultry and Hide Company, arrived at work one morning sometime in the 1920's, his attention was riveted by a crude handwritten notice nailed to the front door. "GET OUT OF TOWN. [signed] KU KLUX KLAN."
Liberators Gather, Perhaps for the Last Time, To Recall the Camps
JTA.org, April 26, 2010
Walking along the dimly lit corridors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the liberators peered at black-and-white photographs and listened to tour guides detail events that many had witnessed as young men in the armed forces.
Russians "Lied" About Death of Diplomat Who Saved Jews from Holocaust
Telegraph.co.uk, April 6, 2010
A Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the holocaust, was actually still alive after his Soviet captors reported his death in a Moscow prison, according to new Russian archive evidence.
Peter Eisenman's Holocaust Memorial Cracking Up on Eve of Five-Year Ceremony
TimesOnline UK, April 2, 2010
Positioned around the corner from Hitler's bunker, Berlin's Holocaust memorial is the largest in the world. A total of 2,711 tall, grey concrete columns invoke visitors a sense of awe and disorientation - but there are fears that the ambitious experiment in memorial architecture is about to fall apart.
There Was Only One Holocaust: Why the Misuse of Political Language Matters
Huffington Post, March 30, 2010
Germany Fights to Keep Holocaust Organizer's Files Sealed
Telegraph.co.uk, March 30, 2010
Germany is fighting to keep sealed the Eichmann files detailing the years the Holocaust's chief logisitics organizer spent on the run before he was captured by Mossad agents.
German Journalist Seeks Release of Eichmann files
Associated Press, March 18, 2010
The basics of Adolf Richmann's story are well documented: Commonly known as the "architect of the Holocaust" for his role in coordinating the Nazi genocide policy, he fled Germany, was captured in Argentina by Israel's Mossad, and hanged after trial in Jerusalem.
Poland Convicts 3 Men in Theft of Auschwitz Sign
Associated Press, March 18, 2010
A Polish court on Thursday convicted three men of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December.
Holocaust Monument in Poland Vandalized
Associated Press, March 13, 2010
Vandals sprayed antisemitic graffiti on Holocaust memorials at a former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, desecration that authorities discovered Saturday and are investigating.
Hungary Makes Holocaust Denial a Crime
Associated Press, March 10, 2010
Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom has signed a law making Holocaust denial punishable by three years in prison.
Only Bulgaria Said "No" to the Holocaust
News Standart, March 10, 2010
It would have been wrong to see the marking of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Bulgaria as a mere mechanical conformity with foreign historical dates and events just for the sake of demonstrating affiliation with the values of humanism.
Britons Honored for Helping Holocaust Victims
Associated Press, March 9, 2010
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday honored Britons whose extraordinary actions helped save Jews and other Holocaust victims during World War II, calling them a source of national pride.
Russian Village Haunted by a Hidden Holocaust Past
npr, March 9, 2010
The Holocaust memorial in the seaside Russian town of Yantarny is out of the way. A bumpy road leads down a hill, toward the chilly waters of the Baltic Sea. Climb over a rope, walk around a restaurant and there are a few stones arranged like a pyramid and, nearby, a long inscription in Russian.
The Tricky Business of Defining Genocide
npr, March 5, 2010
The term "genocide" was coined during World War II to denote a crime so terrible it could not be confused with any other. In that sense, the word may have worked too well.
David Bankier, Scholar of Holocaust, Dies at 63
The New York Times, February 28, 2010
David Bankier, who helped expand the contours of Holocaust research by examining the participation of ordinary Europeans in the extermination of their Jewish neighbors, died over the weekend after a long illness, Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem Holocaust center, announced. He was 63.
How Diplomat's Paperwork Save Lives in Holocaust
The Associated Press, February 28, 2010
It took Ina Polak 35 years to discover the dusty piece of paper that probably saved her and her family in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Hungary's Parliament Votes Holocaust Denial to be Against the Law
The Wall Street Journal, February 25, 2010
In a speedy vote early this week, the Hungarian parliament accepted an amendment to the criminal code, to punish Holocaust denial.
Expert Calls for Historic Objectivity in Judging Pius XII
Catholic News Agency, February 20, 2010
Italian Jewish expert Claudio Vercelli said the historical analysis of the role Pope Pius XII had in the Holocaust must be studied with objectivity and not with a spirit of historical vindictiveness.
Bay Area Holocaust Survivors Respond to "Mein Kampf" Exhibit
The San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2010
"I felt that I was responsible for something," Linda Ellia says of the moment when a french translation of Hitler's infamous memoir "Mein Kampf" came into her possession five years ago. A Jewish painter living in France, Ellia felt immediate visceral horror and anger as she held the heavy tome in her hands, so much so that she graphically inscribed 30 pages of the book with her feelings.
Catholic Scholars Urge Pope to Slow Pius Sainthood
Reuters-Rome, February 17, 2010
Top Catholic scholars have written an unusual and impassioned private letter to Pope Benedict urging him to slow down the sainthood procedure for wartime Pope Pius XII, accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust.
Vatican Putting Wartime Archives on Internet
The Associated Press, February 16, 2010
The Vatican plans to make some of its World War II archives available on the internet soon to calm down the controversy over Pope Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust.
Putin Tells Netanyahu Holocaust Museum to be Built
The Associated Press, February 16, 2010
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told the Israeli Prime Minister that Russia will build a Holocaust remembrance museum.
Holocaust Survivor Shares Tips for Living
LaJolla Light, February 10, 2010
La Jolla Resident and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger will never forget the day she arrived in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 with her mother and sister.
The Holocaust's Untended Graves
The Washington Post, January 30, 2010
World leaders, Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans gathered at Auschwitz on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp. Poland has long shouldered responsibility for preserving this tragic site, which has become a virtual synonym for the Holocaust.
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