Holocaust
The speech Jonathan Glazer could have given
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 15, 2024
(RNS) — What would it look like if Jewish celebrities stood up for Judaism and the Jewish people? Maybe this.
A new Holocaust Museum shows how three-quarters of Dutch Jews were deported and killed
By Associated Press — March 6, 2024
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Three-quarters of the prewar Dutch Jews were among the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, the largest proportion of any country in Europe.
How is this Holocaust movie different from other Holocaust movies?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 14, 2024
(RNS) — ‘The Zone of Interest,’ a nominee for best picture, makes the propensity for evil quite plain — and relevant.
How many Holocaust memorial days do we need?
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — There are three different days for remembering the Holocaust. Each one has a different message. Which message do we need today?
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, 245,000 Jewish survivors are still alive
By Kirsten Grieshaber — January 23, 2024
BERLIN (AP) — Their numbers are quickly dwindling, as most are very old and often of frail health, with a median age of 86.
Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X
By Czarek Sokolowski — January 22, 2024
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — The private visit was apparently in response to calls from some Jewish religious leaders for Musk to see with his own eyes the most symbolic site of the horrors of the Holocaust.
The world must confront the sexual violence of Oct. 7
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 3, 2024
(RNS) — The essay I wrote with shaking hands. I did not want to do it. I had to do it.
Don’t look! Why we should turn away from visual images of atrocities
By Beth Kissileff — December 12, 2023
(RNS) — If we concentrate on the atrocities done to victims we are only choosing to see them as their tormentors did, not as they would prefer to be seen and remembered.
With antisemitism rising as the Israel-Hamas war rages, Europe’s Jews worry
By Jamey Keaten and Laurie Kellman — November 27, 2023
GENEVA (AP) — Faced with fears that antisemitism will spread, communities are taking action.
From past to present, Jews speak out in one voice
By Beth Kissileff — November 24, 2023
(RNS) — What does it mean for Jews to speak out at this moment?
Wracked by grief, US Jews gather to mourn, lament and raise money for Israel
By Yonat Shimron — October 12, 2023
(RNS) — Many American Jews are feeling an acute sense of trauma.
Digging into her family’s past, she discovered a hidden legacy almost lost
By Yonat Shimron — September 15, 2023
(RNS) — Linda Ambrus Broenniman knew her parents came to the United States to escape communism. Why would her father conceal his Jewish past?
The Vatican beatifies a Polish family of 9 killed by the Nazis for sheltering Jews
By Monika Scislowska — September 11, 2023
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — During a ceremonious Mass in the village of Markowa, in southeastern Poland, papal envoy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro read out the Latin formula of the beatification of the Ulma family signed last month by Pope Francis.
Christie’s cancels auction of jewelry bought by billionaire with Nazi past
By Yonat Shimron — September 1, 2023
(RNS) — The auction house planned to sell jewelry from the collection of Heidi Horten, whose husband built a fortune at the expense of Jews during the Nazi years.
Out of the death penalty in Pittsburgh, a testament of life
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 3, 2023
Robert Bowers cannot become the best known name from that horrific day. Let us remember his victims. Each one had a name.
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