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Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke win Women's Prize book awards

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Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Thursday for her debut novel “The Safekeep.”.

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Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn

Read full article: Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn

All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves.

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Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues

Read full article: Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues

The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21.

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70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows

Read full article: 70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows

Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years.

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Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge

Read full article: Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou’s famous autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval Academy’s library this week.

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Syrian suspect in Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing wanted to kill Jews, investigators say

Read full article: Syrian suspect in Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing wanted to kill Jews, investigators say

Investigators say the suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously injured is a Syrian refugee who apparently wanted to kill Jews.

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Police arrest a suspect in a stabbing at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial that injures 1 person

Read full article: Police arrest a suspect in a stabbing at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial that injures 1 person

Police in Berlin say they have arrested a man suspected in a stabbing attack at the city's Holocaust Memorial that left one man seriously injured.

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Supreme Court deals a severe blow to Holocaust survivors' lawsuit against Hungary

Read full article: Supreme Court deals a severe blow to Holocaust survivors' lawsuit against Hungary

A unanimous Supreme Court has dealt a severe blow to Holocaust survivors and their families in a long-running lawsuit seeking compensation from Hungary for property confiscated during World War II.

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After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission

Read full article: After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most notorious concentration camps.

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UN announces new plan to counter the surge in antisemitism

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The United Nations has announced new actions to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination.

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Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor and president French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91

Read full article: Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor and president French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91

French Union of Auschwitz Deportees president and Holocaust survivor Victor Perahia has died.

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Supreme Court will take up Hungary's bid to end lawsuit from Holocaust survivors

Read full article: Supreme Court will take up Hungary's bid to end lawsuit from Holocaust survivors

The Supreme Court has agreed to intervene for the second time in a dispute between Hungary and Holocaust survivors who want to be compensated for property confiscated from them during World War II.

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AI could help spread false and misleading information on Holocaust, UNESCO report warns

Read full article: AI could help spread false and misleading information on Holocaust, UNESCO report warns

Artificial intelligence could be misused to spread misleading or false claims about the Holocaust.

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Argentina will get next installment of bailout as IMF praises Milei's austerity policies

Read full article: Argentina will get next installment of bailout as IMF praises Milei's austerity policies

The International Monetary Fund, Argentina’s biggest creditor, has agreed to release the next tranche of loans due under a bailout program.

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In Holocaust remembrance, Biden condemns antisemitism sparked by college protests and Gaza war

Read full article: In Holocaust remembrance, Biden condemns antisemitism sparked by college protests and Gaza war

President Joe Biden has condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world.”.

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The yearly memorial march at the former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war

Read full article: The yearly memorial march at the former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war

U.S. university presidents have joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis for a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz.

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Netanyahu uses Holocaust ceremony to brush off international pressure against Gaza offensive

Read full article: Netanyahu uses Holocaust ceremony to brush off international pressure against Gaza offensive

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected international pressure to halt the war in Gaza in a fiery speech marking the country’s annual Holocaust memorial day.

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A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7

Read full article: A Holocaust survivor will mark that history differently after the horrors of Oct. 7

Israel will start marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday evening.

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At time of rising antisemitism, Holocaust survivors take on denial and hate in new digital campaign

Read full article: At time of rising antisemitism, Holocaust survivors take on denial and hate in new digital campaign

Holocaust survivors are participating in a digital campaign called #CancelHate which features videos of them reading Holocaust denial posts from different social media platforms.

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Jewish group launches Holocaust survivor speakers bureau to fight increasing antisemitism worldwide

Read full article: Jewish group launches Holocaust survivor speakers bureau to fight increasing antisemitism worldwide

More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world during a time of rising antisemitism following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.

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Argentina's president condemns threat by provincial governor to cut energy supplies in dispute

Read full article: Argentina's president condemns threat by provincial governor to cut energy supplies in dispute

The government of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has condemned a threat by the governor of the oil-rich province of Chubut to cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions.

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Israel says Brazil's president unwelcome until he apologizes for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust

Read full article: Israel says Brazil's president unwelcome until he apologizes for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust

Israel’s foreign minister says Brazil’s president will not be welcome in Israel until he apologizes for comments he made comparing Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of a “very serious anti-Semitic attack.”.

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Israel's Netanyahu slams Brazilian president's comparison of Gaza war to the Holocaust

Read full article: Israel's Netanyahu slams Brazilian president's comparison of Gaza war to the Holocaust

Israel has condemned Brazil’s president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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EU Commission changes social media post about Auschwitz after protests from Poland

Read full article: EU Commission changes social media post about Auschwitz after protests from Poland

Poland on Sunday asked the European Commission to fix a social media post about the Holocaust, saying it wrongly linked the Auschwitz death camp to Poland.

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Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue

Read full article: Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue

Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and promote compassion and dialogue amid rising global sectarian hatred fueled by Israel’s war in Gaza.

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A Holocaust survivor in Israel recalls that trauma through the lens of Oct. 7 attack

Read full article: A Holocaust survivor in Israel recalls that trauma through the lens of Oct. 7 attack

Holocaust survivor Gad Partok never thought he'd live to see horrors like the ones he witnessed as a young boy in Tunisia when Nazis invaded his town and killed many of his neighbors.

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Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Read full article: Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day

A group of survivors of Nazi death camps has marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony in southern Poland.

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Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, 245,000 Jewish survivors are still alive

Read full article: Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, 245,000 Jewish survivors are still alive

Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries.

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Holocaust survivors will mark Hanukkah amid worries over war in Israel, global rise of antisemitism

Read full article: Holocaust survivors will mark Hanukkah amid worries over war in Israel, global rise of antisemitism

Holocaust survivors from around the globe will mark the start of the fifth day of Hanukkah together with a virtual ceremony as worries grow among Jews worldwide about the Israel-Hamas war and a spike of antisemitism in Europe, the United States and elsewhere.

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Conservative consulting group rebrands with new name after leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes

Read full article: Conservative consulting group rebrands with new name after leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes

In a Nov. 13 filing with the Texas Secretary of State, an attorney for Pale Horse Strategies LLC wrote that the firm would also conduct future business under the name “West Fort Worth Management LLC.”

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French Holocaust survivors are recoiling at new antisemitism, and activists are pleading for peace

Read full article: French Holocaust survivors are recoiling at new antisemitism, and activists are pleading for peace

Survivors of Nazi atrocities have joined young Jewish activists in Paris to sound the alarm about resurgent antisemitic hate speech, graffiti and abuse linked to the Israel-Hamas war.

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Germans commemorate 'Night of Broken Glass' terror as antisemitism is on the rise again

Read full article: Germans commemorate 'Night of Broken Glass' terror as antisemitism is on the rise again

People have come together across Germany to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht or the “Night of Broken Glass” in 1938 during which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria.

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Holocaust survivor recalls 'Night of Broken Glass' horrors in interactive, virtual reality project

Read full article: Holocaust survivor recalls 'Night of Broken Glass' horrors in interactive, virtual reality project

Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched helplessly as two Nazi officers marched away a beloved friend of her father who was beaten up and bleeding on the forehead.

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In Hamas' horrific killings, Israeli trauma over the Holocaust resurfaces

Read full article: In Hamas' horrific killings, Israeli trauma over the Holocaust resurfaces

For many Israelis and Jews around the world, the horrors committed by Hamas militants during their stunning onslaught on southern Israeli communities is triggering painful memories of a calamity of a far greater scale: the Holocaust.

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Palestinian politicians lash out at renowned academics who denounced president's antisemitic remarks

Read full article: Palestinian politicians lash out at renowned academics who denounced president's antisemitic remarks

Palestinian politicians have denounced dozens of Palestinian academics who criticized President Mahmoud Abbas’ recent remarks on the Holocaust.

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Florida woman sentenced to 4 years in romance scam that stole Holocaust survivor’s savings

Read full article: Florida woman sentenced to 4 years in romance scam that stole Holocaust survivor’s savings

A Florida woman who swindled the life savings from an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor in a “romance scam” was sentenced to over four years in prison Thursday, federal prosecutors said.

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Florida woman who stole nearly $3 million from Holocaust survivor gets over 4 years in prison

Read full article: Florida woman who stole nearly $3 million from Holocaust survivor gets over 4 years in prison

A Florida woman who drained an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor's life savings by posing as a love interest and then lived lavishly off the $2.8 million she got has been sentenced to over four years in prison.

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Germany to give $1.4 billion to Holocaust survivors globally in 2024

Read full article: Germany to give $1.4 billion to Holocaust survivors globally in 2024

The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says that Germany has agreed to extend another $1.4 billion overall for Holocaust survivors around the globe for the coming year.

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Scholars defend Polish Holocaust researcher targeted by govt

Read full article: Scholars defend Polish Holocaust researcher targeted by govt

Scholars and historical institutions from around the world are coming to the defense of a Polish researcher.

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

Read full article: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

The presidents of Germany, Poland and Israel, joined by Holocaust survivors and their descendants, are marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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Holocaust survivors, descendants join forces on social media

Read full article: Holocaust survivors, descendants join forces on social media

More than 100 Holocaust survivors and their descendants are participating in a new social media campaign that illustrates the importance of passing on the Holocaust survivors’ testimonies as their numbers dwindle.

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Warsaw Ghetto uprising survivor honored on 80th anniversary

Read full article: Warsaw Ghetto uprising survivor honored on 80th anniversary

Tova Gutstein was 10 years old when the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto launched an uprising against the Nazis.

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Israeli Holocaust memorial criticizes deal with Poland

Read full article: Israeli Holocaust memorial criticizes deal with Poland

Israel’s national Holocaust memorial has criticized a new agreement renewing Israeli school trips to Poland, saying it recommends a number of “problematic sites” that distort history.

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Graphic version of Anne Frank book removed by Florida school

Read full article: Graphic version of Anne Frank book removed by Florida school

A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust.

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Berlin museum presents 100 works by artist Gerhard Richter

Read full article: Berlin museum presents 100 works by artist Gerhard Richter

A new show of works by one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Gerhard Richter, has opened at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie museum.

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Poland honors citizens who helped Jews during Holocaust

Read full article: Poland honors citizens who helped Jews during Holocaust

Poland's president has taken part in nationwide observances Friday to honor Poles who risked — and often lost — their lives trying to save Jews from the Holocaust during the Nazi German occupation of Poland.

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Holocaust survivor shares on TikTok to educate young people

Read full article: Holocaust survivor shares on TikTok to educate young people

Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman is a TikTok star at age 85, thanks to her 17-year-old grandson.

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Michigan GOP slammed for comparing gun reform to Holocaust

Read full article: Michigan GOP slammed for comparing gun reform to Holocaust

The Michigan Republican Party's social media posts are being called “hateful” and “ignorant” for comparing gun reform to the Holocaust.

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Israeli foreign minister visits Poland to 'restore' ties

Read full article: Israeli foreign minister visits Poland to 'restore' ties

The Israeli and Polish foreign ministers have met in a step that they are hailing as a breakthrough in restoring a relationship that's been badly damaged for years due to disagreements over how to remember Polish behavior during the Holocaust.

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‘There’s something for everyone’: Spend spring break at Holocaust Museum Houston

Read full article: ‘There’s something for everyone’: Spend spring break at Holocaust Museum Houston

The museum will be having extended hours and guest speakers during spring break.

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'Nazi' references: BBC sportscaster's tweet revives debate

Read full article: 'Nazi' references: BBC sportscaster's tweet revives debate

The references seem endless, and they can come from anywhere.

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Germany recalls overlooked LGBT victims of Nazi persecution

Read full article: Germany recalls overlooked LGBT victims of Nazi persecution

Germany has commemorated the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by focusing on people who were incarcerated and killed during the Nazi era because of their sexual orientations and gender identifies.

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Survey shows lack of Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands

Read full article: Survey shows lack of Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands

A Jewish group that commissioned a survey on Holocaust awareness in the Netherlands says the results show “a disturbing lack of awareness of key historical facts about the Holocaust.”.

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16 objects from Germany tell story of Holocaust in new ways

Read full article: 16 objects from Germany tell story of Holocaust in new ways

An exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial brings back to Germany a diverse set of everyday objects that Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis.

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Rio Holocaust Memorial remembers Jewish victims - and others

Read full article: Rio Holocaust Memorial remembers Jewish victims - and others

Rio de Janeiro has opened the doors to a Holocaust Memorial that honors not only Jewish victims, but also lesser-known groups likewise persecuted by the Nazi regime, including artists, anarchists, masons, Roma people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay people and the disabled.

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UK Conservatives suspend lawmaker for vaccine misinformation

Read full article: UK Conservatives suspend lawmaker for vaccine misinformation

Britain’s governing Conservative Party has suspended a lawmaker who spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

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Whoopi Goldberg faces backlash after repeating false Holocaust comments

Read full article: Whoopi Goldberg faces backlash after repeating false Holocaust comments

Whoopi Goldberg is facing a fresh round of backlash following her latest historically inaccurate statement about the Holocaust, which she claimed “wasn’t originally” about race in an interview with the U.K. newspaper The Sunday Times.

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Jewish Americans confront antisemitism with resolve, worry

Read full article: Jewish Americans confront antisemitism with resolve, worry

Across the United States, many Jewish Americans are closely following the recent high-profile surge in antisemitic rhetoric and actions.

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Holocaust survivors offered DNA tests to help find family

Read full article: Holocaust survivors offered DNA tests to help find family

The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project offering DNA testing kits for free to Holocaust survivors and their children.

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Holocaust memorial: Kristallnacht photos were already seen

Read full article: Holocaust memorial: Kristallnacht photos were already seen

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has acknowledged that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week.

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Newly discovered photos show Nazi Kristallnacht up close

Read full article: Newly discovered photos show Nazi Kristallnacht up close

Harrowing, previously unseen images from 1938′s Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jews have surfaced in a photograph collection recently donated to Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial.

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Kristallnacht survivors warn about antisemitism, hate speech

Read full article: Kristallnacht survivors warn about antisemitism, hate speech

Holocaust survivors from around the world are warning of the reemergence of antisemitism as they mark the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the “Night of Broken Glass.”.

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Iranian president's Holocaust remarks spark outcry in Israel

Read full article: Iranian president's Holocaust remarks spark outcry in Israel

The Iranian president’s comment that “there are some signs” that the Holocaust happened but that the issue required more research has sparked an outcry from Israel, a country home to tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors.

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New York museums to disclose artwork looted by Nazis

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Museums in New York that exhibit artworks looted by Nazis during the Holocaust are now required to let the public know about that dark history through signs or placards put on display with the stolen objects.

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Art Spiegelman to receive honorary National Book Award

Read full article: Art Spiegelman to receive honorary National Book Award

“Maus” cartoonist Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award this fall, a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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Israeli president evokes horrors, ties at German parliament

Read full article: Israeli president evokes horrors, ties at German parliament

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has addressed Germany’s parliament about atrocities committed during the Third Reich.

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German leader condemns Abbas' '50 Holocausts' remark

Read full article: German leader condemns Abbas' '50 Holocausts' remark

Germany’s chancellor says that he was “disgusted by the outrageous remarks” made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin, accusing Israel of committing “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians over the years.

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Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Paris roundup

Read full article: Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Paris roundup

French President Emmanuel Macron has decried his Nazi-collaborator predecessors and vigorously vowed to stamp out Holocaust denial.

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Poland wants formal rules for Israeli Holocaust study trips

Read full article: Poland wants formal rules for Israeli Holocaust study trips

A Polish official says his government wants formal rules to regulate the terms under which Israeli schoolchildren pay Holocaust study visits to the country, including on the presence of armed Israeli guards.

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Houston Newsmakers: Is Russia committing genocide and what can the world do about it?

Read full article: Houston Newsmakers: Is Russia committing genocide and what can the world do about it?

Houston Newsmakers: Is Russia committing genocide and what can the world do about it?

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Israel says Putin apologized over his FM's Holocaust remarks

Read full article: Israel says Putin apologized over his FM's Holocaust remarks

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow’s top diplomat.

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Israel lashes out at Russia over Lavrov's Nazism remarks

Read full article: Israel lashes out at Russia over Lavrov's Nazism remarks

Israel has summoned the Russian ambassador over comments made by the Russian foreign minister about Nazism and antisemitism.

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Israel halts for Holocaust day, honors 6 million Jews killed

Read full article: Israel halts for Holocaust day, honors 6 million Jews killed

Israel has come to a halt to honor the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

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Survivors unite to deliver message on Holocaust remembrance

Read full article: Survivors unite to deliver message on Holocaust remembrance

Holocaust survivors across the world are uniting to deliver a message on the dangers of unchecked hate and the importance of remembrance at a time of rising global antisemitism.

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Holocaust survivor, author Gerda Weissmann Klein dies at 97

Read full article: Holocaust survivor, author Gerda Weissmann Klein dies at 97

Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor and author who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death this month.

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Poland, France trade barbs over Russia's war on Ukraine

Read full article: Poland, France trade barbs over Russia's war on Ukraine

Poland has summoned the French ambassador over recent comments by President Emmanuel Macron who called Poland’s prime minister a “far-right anti-Semite” in a budding feud over Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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Holocaust survivors flee from Ukraine to Germany for safety

Read full article: Holocaust survivors flee from Ukraine to Germany for safety

As the war in Ukraine sees increased Russian attacks on cities and towns, Jewish organizations are trying to evacuate as many of the 10,000 Holocaust survivors living there as possible.

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Zelenskyy evokes Holocaust as he appeals to Israel for aid

Read full article: Zelenskyy evokes Holocaust as he appeals to Israel for aid

Ukraine’s president has called on Israel to take a stronger stand against Russia, delivering an emotional appeal that compared Russia’s invasion of his country to the actions of Nazi Germany.

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Grassroots groups help rescue Holocaust survivors in Ukraine

Read full article: Grassroots groups help rescue Holocaust survivors in Ukraine

Several grassroots groups and volunteers as far away as Los Angeles are working to extricate elderly Holocaust survivors from Ukraine.

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EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify war with Ukraine

Read full article: EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify war with Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.

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Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum dies at 101 in Germany

Read full article: Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum dies at 101 in Germany

Leon Schwarzbaum, a survivor of the Nazis’ death camp at Auschwitz and lifelong fighter for justice for the victims of the Holocaust, has died.

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Germany to give $720 million to Holocaust survivors globally

Read full article: Germany to give $720 million to Holocaust survivors globally

An organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says Germany has agreed to extend another $720 million (647 million euros) to provide supportive services for vulnerable Holocaust survivors.

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EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify attacks in Ukraine

Read full article: EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify attacks in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin told the world in the lead-up to its attacks on Ukraine that his operation aimed to “denazify” Ukraine.

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Whoopi Goldberg returns to 'The View' after suspension

Read full article: Whoopi Goldberg returns to 'The View' after suspension

Whoopi Goldberg returned to “The View” on Monday following her two-week suspension for remarks about the Holocaust.

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Latvia passes long-awaited Holocaust restitution law

Read full article: Latvia passes long-awaited Holocaust restitution law

Latvia’s parliament has passed a Holocaust restitution bill that includes funding to revitalize the Baltic nation’s Jewish community, which was almost completely wiped out during World War II.

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Book aims to shine light on Romanian role in the Holocaust

Read full article: Book aims to shine light on Romanian role in the Holocaust

Maksim Goldenshteyn's book, “So They Remember,” tells the story of his Holocaust survivor grandparents who languished in Jewish death camps and ghettos in Transnistria during World War II — a chapter of the Holocaust which some say is largely forgotten.

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US Jews talk identity, Holocaust after Goldberg's remarks

Read full article: US Jews talk identity, Holocaust after Goldberg's remarks

The uproar over Whoopi Goldberg's remarks about the Holocaust has catalyzed somber reflections by many American Jews, and not just about the Holocaust’s legacy.

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Did ABC miss a learning opportunity by suspending Whoopi?

Read full article: Did ABC miss a learning opportunity by suspending Whoopi?

ABC’s decision to suspend Whoopi Goldberg from “The View” for two weeks for her remarks about the Holocaust has opened the network up to criticism that its response derailed a teachable moment for the nation.

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`The View' presses on with a simple 'OK' on Whoopi Goldberg

Read full article: `The View' presses on with a simple 'OK' on Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg’s colleagues on the ”The View'' had virtually nothing to say Wednesday about her two-week suspension for her comments on Jews and the Holocaust.

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Whoopi Goldberg suspended from talk show ‘The View’ over ‘wrong and hurtful’ Holocaust comments

Read full article: Whoopi Goldberg suspended from talk show ‘The View’ over ‘wrong and hurtful’ Holocaust comments

Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks as co-host of “The View” because of what the head of ABC News called her “wrong and hurtful comments” about Jews and the Holocaust.

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Sales soar for 'Maus' after its banning in Tennessee

Read full article: Sales soar for 'Maus' after its banning in Tennessee

Just days after the banning of “Maus” by a Tennessee school district made national news, two editions of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize winning graphic story about the Holocaust have reached the top 20 on Amazon.

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Holocaust novel 'Maus' banned in Tennessee school district

Read full article: Holocaust novel 'Maus' banned in Tennessee school district

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman.

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World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic

Read full article: World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic

Holocaust survivors have recalled their agony to a world that they fear is forgetting on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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As world marks Holocaust, some survivors in Israel struggle

Read full article: As world marks Holocaust, some survivors in Israel struggle

Several dozen impoverished elderly Israelis, among them Holocaust survivors, received food donations from a charity ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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EU leaders worried by rise in antisemitism, Holocaust denial

Read full article: EU leaders worried by rise in antisemitism, Holocaust denial

European Union leaders are pledging on the eve of the annual commemorations of Auschwitz’s liberation to keep fighting the antisemitism and Holocaust denial that has gained traction across Europe during the pandemic.

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Pope's right knee ligament inflamed, curbing mobility

Read full article: Pope's right knee ligament inflamed, curbing mobility

Pope Francis is suffering from an inflamed ligament in his right knee that makes walking and going up and down stairs painful.

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Jewish leaders, backers defiant a week after hostage siege

Read full article: Jewish leaders, backers defiant a week after hostage siege

Rabbis, public officials and others made statements of defiance against antisemitism at Sabbath services a week after last weekend's hostage siege at a Texas synagogue.

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UN approves resolution condemning denial of Nazi Holocaust

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The U_N_ General Assembly has approved an Israeli-sponsored resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust and urging all nations and social media companies “to take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion.”.

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86-year-old woman named Israel's 'Miss Holocaust Survivor'

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An 86-year-old woman who survived mass roundups and massacres of Jews as a child in Romania has been crowned Israel’s “Miss Holocaust Survivor.”.

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Kansas vaccine mandate foes rally; Holocaust comment decried

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Hundreds of people opposed to COVID-19 vaccine mandates have rallied at the Kansas Statehouse and pushed state lawmakers to quickly counter them.

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