admin | April 11, 2024
In Nazi Germany, the medical field was part of the larger effort to dehumanize anyone who did not conform to the idea of a healthy German nation. Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt, who teaches the history of anatomy at Harvard Medical School, scrutinizes the biographies of medical professionals during the Nazi era and restores the histories of victims subjected to coercive medical experimentation both before and after death
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admin | March 30, 2024
Mild spoilers for We Were the Lucky Ones ahead.
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admin | March 30, 2024
Questions around Jewish life in Germany, the Holocaust and Berlin's relationship withIsraelwill soon form part of Germany's naturalisation test, the country's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Tuesday. "Antisemitism, racism and other forms of contempt for humankind preclude naturalisation.
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admin | March 30, 2024
Everything you will hear today is true the events and the stories. Thats how Andie Weiner, the 2024 Holocaust Legacy Foundation Gideon Klein Scholar, prefaced her presentation at the kick off of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week at Northeastern University. The presentation, also her capstone project, was a solo biographical performance that told the story of how her grandfather, Jack or Joop Groothuis, escaped the Netherlands as it was under Nazi occupation and fled to the United States
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admin | March 30, 2024
(JTA) Jewish actress and writer Lena Dunham is the latest Hollywood star to discover that her family has ties to the Holocaust on the PBS celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. Dunham, the sometimes controversial comedian who was born to a Protestant father and a Jewish mother, has previously described herself as very culturally Jewish, and she stars in a forthcoming film, Treasure, that features a family grappling with its Holocaust history.
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admin | March 30, 2024
THETFORD Two Upper Valley congregations are joining together to host an event that encourages people of different religions to discuss faith and the Holocaust. Faith Among the Ashes: Lessons From Holocaust Survivors is scheduled to take place Sunday, April 14 at 1:30 p.m
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admin | March 30, 2024
The University Medallion is a symbol of USCs lasting commitment to use these visual and oral histories to educate, enlighten and shape a future without hate, Folt said. The granting of the University Medallion comes at a time when antisemitism is on the rise globally in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and the subsequent war in Gaza
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admin | March 30, 2024
BERLIN Those seeking German citizenship could soon have to answer test questions about antisemitism, Germanys commitment to Israel and Jewish life in Germany. The catalogue of more than 300 questions from which citizenship test questions can be selected is to be amended shortly, the interior ministry said in a statement, pending final approval. New questions, German magazine Der Spiegel reported, are to include: What is a Jewish house of prayer called
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admin | March 30, 2024
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between
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admin | March 30, 2024
A California lawmaker, along with the states lieutenant governor, announced legislation on Thursday to help California residents reclaim personal property stolen from them during the Holocaust. The law comes after a controversial case that was affirmed in a California court last month, in which Claude Cassirer, a California resident, discovered that a painting was on display in Spain that Nazis had stolen from a relative of his in 1939. Under California state law, Cassirer, the sole heir to the paintings original owner, had legitimate ownership of the artwork.
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