Nazis
Display your Hanukkah menorah!
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 5, 2023
(RNS) — More than ever before. It’s that important.
Makkabi Berlin, founded by Holocaust survivors, to be 1st Jewish team in German Cup
By CiarÁn Fahey — August 11, 2023
BERLIN (AP) — When the annual competition was started under the Nazis in 1935, Jews weren’t allowed to take part.
Nazi orders for Jews to wear a star were hateful, but far from unique – a historian traces the long history of antisemitic badges
By Flora Cassen — March 14, 2023
(The Conversation) — Badges and other wearable markings had a long history of being used to target Jewish people in Europe.
How not to cancel each other
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 28, 2023
(RNS) — One of the most unusual Jewish friendships teaches us some real lessons.
Over the weekend, fusions of faith and extremism at drag show protests across country
By Jack Jenkins — December 6, 2022
(RNS) — Nazi sympathizers waved Christian flags at multiple drag story hour events.
Survey in Britain finds lack of awareness about Holocaust
By Josef Federman — November 10, 2021
The survey concluded that 52% of respondents surveyed in the U.K. did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
In ‘Hidden Life’, Terrence Malick says freedom is won in standing up for beliefs
By Claire Giangravé — December 11, 2019
(RNS) — God is never mentioned in the philosophical director's latest film: There is no need. God’s presence is always implied in the physical world.
D-Day was the beginning of American Jews’ ‘coming of age’
By Paul O'Donnell — May 22, 2019
(RNS) — When Jewish men and women returned to civilian life in 1945, they no longer perceived themselves as members of a vulnerable minority group, but rather as part of a proud, self-confident community.
Remembering the children of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 75th anniversary of the uprising
By Samantha Baskind — April 19, 2018
(RNS) — While the Warsaw Ghetto uprising offers a narrative that has been vibrantly told again and again, mythologized by an American culture that craves happy endings, however feeble they may be, the ghetto’s story also speaks to a different kind of memory: one of lost innocence and mercilessness.
Students disciplined for ‘Jews vs. Nazis’ beer pong game
By RNS staff — August 25, 2017
(AP) — In the image, students are seen playing beer pong with cups in the shapes of a swastika and a Star of David.
Mennonites seek to come to terms with Nazi collaboration
By Ben Goossen — March 16, 2017
FILADELFIA, Paraguay (RNS) Since the end of the Second World War, Mennonite-Nazi collaboration has largely been ignored, forgotten or intentionally repressed by adherents of this Christian denomination that was founded in 16th-century Europe on principles of nonviolence and nonparticipation in politics.
Can the swastika ever be redeemed?
By Kimberly Winston — February 9, 2017
(RNS) How did the swastika travel from prehistorical India to a New York City subway last week? Can it its original meaning as a sign of fertility, good fortune and hope be restored?
Pope Francis recalls ‘the souls’ at Auschwitz
By Josephine McKenna — August 3, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Reflecting on his visit to the concentration camp last week, the pontiff said the site also reminded him 'of the cruelties of today, which are similar.'
Francis writes an appeal for mercy in silent visit to Auschwitz
By guest — July 29, 2016
KRAKOW, Poland (RNS) The pontiff spent intense moments in prayer at the infamous concentration camp, then embraced Holocaust survivors and met some who helped Jews persecuted by the Nazis.
Ex-Auschwitz SS guard convicted on 170,000 counts
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 17, 2016
Reinhold Hanning told the court in April, “I am ashamed that I saw injustice and never did anything about it and I apologize for my actions."
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