admin | September 22, 2021
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands unveiled on Sunday the countrys first National Holocaust Monument which lists the names of the 102,163 Dutch victims of the Shoah. The unveiling ceremony was broadcast live on Dutch public television. The monument, designed by Daniel Libeskind lies in the centre of Amsterdam and is a labyrinth of brick walls that, when seen from above, form Hebrew letters reading in remembrance.
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admin | September 17, 2021
Nearly half of the public would not support plans that could allow Holocaust deniers and other extremists to sue universities if they were banned from speaking on campuses, a survey suggested. Critics of new proposed freedom of speech laws claim they could leave the way open for antisemites and other racists to sue for compensation if they are no platformed by university leaders.
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admin | September 17, 2021
You wouldnt need to be a devotee of the theatre or playwright Tom Stoppard to be fascinated by his lengthy appearance on the late night BBC arts programme, Imagine. Alan Yentobs interview, conducted in the bucolic setting of Stoppards quintessentially English country home, detailed his life as an inside, outsider
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admin | September 17, 2021
When danger strikes, we look for shelter. For more than 18 months, the danger of a lethal virus and its variants has hovered above us and around us
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admin | September 17, 2021
There arent really many animated films about the Holocaust, so its a bit surprising that the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival screened not one but two animated films about victims of the Shoah. Despite their similarity in medium and subject matter, Where Is Anne Frank? and Charlotte offer two very different cinematic experiences, neither great but both interesting and respectable in their own ways.
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admin | September 17, 2021
Ben Foster turns in a career-defining performance in Barry Levinsons new film, The Survivor, based on the life of Harry Haft. While many perished at Auschwitz, Harry Haft (Ben Foster) found the will to survive. Not so much because of boxing for the Nazis amusementincluding Nazi camp commander Dietrich Schneider (Billy Magnussen)but because he wanted to reunite with his girlfriend, Leah (Dar Zuzovsky).
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admin | September 17, 2021
Even the holiest Jew seeks teshuva (repentance). Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Menachem Ziemba, and Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal: They were transformed by the horror and death of the Holocaust
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admin | September 6, 2021
The parents of Mindy Weisel were married in Bergen-Belsen, the notorious concentration camp that was converted into a shelter for displaced persons at the end of World War II. Weisel herself was among the first babies to be born there in January 1947
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admin | September 6, 2021
Many Jews who survived World War II in the woods joined the partisans, a vast network of Soviet fighters who remained behind the front lines after Germany broke its accord with Russia and launched Operation Barbarossa.
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admin | September 6, 2021
By Anton Schneerson Babyn Yar. Two words are as short as a gunshot.
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