Holocaust
Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne at a time of deep religious divisions and worked to bring tolerance
By Joanne M. Pierce — September 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — Queen Elizabeth II encouraged tolerance in a multifaith United Kingdom. To appreciate the significance of her efforts, it is important to understand the country’s complicated religious history.
Unknown Holocaust photos – found in attics and archives – are helping researchers recover lost stories and providing a tool against denial
By Wolf Gruner — September 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — Holocaust scholars long relied on documents and survivor testimonies to help reconstruct the history of that tragic event. Now, they’re turning to wordless witnesses to learn more: pictures.
You must watch Ken Burns’ PBS series on America and the Holocaust
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 19, 2022
(RNS) — This documentary about the Holocaust was made for our times. To understand the darker elements of America, it is required viewing.
Ken Burns’ documentary busts myth that Americans didn’t know about Nazi atrocities
By Yonat Shimron — September 16, 2022
(RNS) — The series, which debuts Sunday (Sept. 18), shows Americans heard on the radio and read in the newspapers about Nazis' rising hostility to Jews, culminating in the Final Solution.
No, Mr. Abbas, there weren’t ‘50 Holocausts’
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 22, 2022
(RNS) — It is vulgar, inaccurate — and all too common. Hold the metaphor, please.
They’re banning Anne Frank. Are you kidding me?!?!
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 17, 2022
(RNS) — Warning: They are coming for our young people’s brains.
Teaching teachers about the Holocaust and its lessons for democracy today
By Yonat Shimron — August 10, 2022
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — The Olga Lengyel Institute trains schoolteachers to view the Holocaust as a prism for understanding social injustice, bigotry and hatred.
There is a lot of antisemitic hate speech on social media – and algorithms are partly to blame
By Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher — July 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — Antisemitism today does not always appear in the form of traditional hate speech. It manifests in GIFs, memes, vlogs, comments and reactions on social media platforms.
First stop, Yad Vashem. Why?
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 25, 2022
(RNS) — That is the first place in Israel that foreign dignitaries visit. We can do better.
Pope Francis puts Jews’ desperate wartime appeals to Pope Pius XII online
By Claire Giangravé — June 23, 2022
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The data, which will be available online for free, comprises more than 2,700 requests sent to the Vatican by Jews persecuted by the Nazi regime.
German federal court rejects bid to remove antisemitic relic
By Geir Moulson — June 14, 2022
Despite the defamatory nature of the original statue, “the legal system does not demand its removal,” the federal court said.
Vatican’s Pius XII archives begin to shed light on WWII pope
By Nicole Winfield — June 7, 2022
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A new book, citing recently opened Vatican archives, suggests the lives the Vatican worked hardest to save were Jews who had converted to Catholicism or were children of Catholic-Jewish 'mixed marriages'.
Rabbi James Rudin’s memoir recounts the interfaith movement’s hits and misses
By Yonat Shimron — May 30, 2022
(RNS) — In the book, 'The People in the Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, and Presidents,' Rudin writes about his favorite collaborators, the challenges of cultivating pluralism and the future of interfaith relations.
Oberammergau Passion Play enters a new era
By Noam E. Marans and Peter A. Pettit — May 9, 2022
(RNS) — Oberammergau is no longer a capital of antisemitism.
Poland and the Jews. It’s complicated.
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 27, 2022
(RNS) — Yes, these bones can live.
