As thousands descended on Minnesota for Super Bowl LII on Sunday, they likely did not expect to meet those who greeted them in the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport: Minnesotans who survived …
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By Andrew Gershman, JNS
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2/7/18
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Nearly 80 years after being persecuted by the Nazi-allied Vichy French government, some 25,000 elderly Algerian Jews are being recognized for the first time as …
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By Debra Nussbaum Cohen, JTA
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2/7/18
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WARSAW, Poland — Debate over a Polish law that proposes to outlaw rhetoric blaming Poland for Nazi crimes has prompted a wave of anti-Semitic comments in the Polish media.
RMF, one of the …
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By Katarzyna Markusz, JTA
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2/7/18
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Who owns the Holocaust? That, ultimately, is the key question posed by the impending legislation in Poland that will criminalize any discussion, or investigation, or mere mention, of incidents of …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/7/18
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The Polish parliament’s bill to criminalize the use of the term “Polish death camps” prompted an avalanche of criticism in Israel by officials and individuals who warned that it is …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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1/31/18
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Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date, which commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is the one most of the world uses to remember the Shoah, even if Israel …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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1/31/18
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As the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day last weekend, an exhibit at an Orthodox-centric Holocaust museum was recounting the story of Jews who found refuge from the Nazis in …
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By Shiryn Solny, JNS
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1/31/18
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This past weekend, the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many of us also know it as the day that Auschwitz was liberated. The hashtag #We Remember was used throughout the day to …
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By Joni Schockett
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1/31/18
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In an otherwise darkened theater, viewers gasped when they saw what appeared to be a seated 83-year-old man wearing a light …
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By Ellen Braunstein, JTA
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1/24/18
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“No Resting Place: Holocaust Poland” achieves searing power to illuminate the dark burning reality of Nazi concentration camps in Poland. Merely holding this volume burns the eyes and …
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Review by Edwin Black
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1/24/18
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