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News Articles: holocaust

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  • Arts & Life

Where did 20,000 Jews hide from the Holocaust? In Shanghai

An exhibit in New York explores a little-known chapter of World War II.

August 07, 2023
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  • Matthew Schuerman
This image from Mordechai Bernstein's "In the Labyrinth of Times" exhibit shows the Munich synagogue on the eve of its destruction in June 1938.

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  • Europe

Parts of a Munich synagogue demolished by Nazis are found in a river 85 years later

Munich's main synagogue was one of the first to be destroyed in Nazi Germany, under Hitler's orders. No one knew what had become of the rubble — until construction workers made a discovery last week.

July 06, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
A worker holds a shoe that belonged to a child victim of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on the grounds of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.

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  • Europe

Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children

A two-year effort is underway to preserve 8,000 children's shoes at the former concentration and extermination camp where German forces murdered 1.1 million people during World War II.

May 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Europe

Antisemitic text was projected onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam

A display alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory was projected onto the former hiding place of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl whose diary notes the persecution her people faced during World War II.

February 11, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde
This undated photo provided by Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial shows Shlomo Perel at his home in Givatayim, Israel. Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, has died. He was 98.

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  • Obituaries

Shlomo Perel, a Holocaust survivor who inspired the film 'Europa Europa,' dies at 98

Shlomo Perel, who survived the Holocaust through surreal subterfuge and an extraordinary odyssey that inspired his own writing and an internationally renowned film, has died in Israel.

February 04, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Two young German-Jewish refugees at the porthole of the liner St. Louis finally arrive at Antwerp, after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior to the start of World War II.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: A Holocaust remembrance — and lessons we have yet to learn

NPR's Scott Simon wonders why teaching children about the Holocaust is not mandatory in most states and the lessons they are missing.

January 28, 2023
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  • Scott Simon

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: As antisemitism goes mainstream, a look at the Jewish history of Georgia

Friday on Political Rewind: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazi Party. But disturbingly, antisemitism is once again being mainstreamed in our politics. Our special panel explores Georgia's Jewish history, marked with both hope and violence.

January 27, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut and
  • Chase McGee
U.S. second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, lays a wreath honoring Holocaust victims at the former Auschwitz site on Friday in Oswiecim, Poland.

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  • Politics

Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, is in Poland and Germany to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and address rising antisemitism around the world.

January 27, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
King Willem-Alexander puts a stone in an act of remembrance when unveiling a new monument in the heart of Amsterdam's historic Jewish Quarter on Sept. 19, 2021, honoring the 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust.

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  • History

Survey shows a lack of Holocaust awareness in the country that was home to Anne Frank

The survey commissioned by a U.S.-based group found that the number of Dutch respondents who believe the Holocaust is a myth was higher than in any of the other five nations previously surveyed.

January 25, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This handout negative dated on April 20, 1943, and taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski shows Jewish people being evacuated from the Warsaw Ghetto.

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  • History

A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found

The photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a 23-year-old Polish firefighter as the Nazis were brutally crushing the Jewish uprising of 1943. The photos were discovered in a family collection.

January 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Red knitted caps were a grandmother's way of saying, "I love you."

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  • Family

We asked, you answered: What precious object is part of your family history?

Readers responded with moving stories of past journeys and crises — and keepsakes that remind them of their roots and tie them to their family. Here's a sampling of replies.

November 14, 2022
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  • Marc Silver
Ken Burns' new three-part documentary, <em>The U.S. and the Holocaust,</em> explores what everyday Americans knew — or didn't know — about what the Nazis were doing in Europe. Above, a tenant farmer reads a newspaper in Creek County, Okla., in February 1940.

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  • TV Reviews

Ken Burns connects the past and the present in 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'

Burns' new six-hour series brings World War II history to life — and reminds us that our life, right now, is indeed history in the making.

September 15, 2022
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  • David Bianculli
Jewish townspeople of the village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938.

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  • Movies

'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy

Two documentaries — one involving a pre-WWII home movie, the other dispatches from the Amazon rainforest — have much in common.

August 19, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint news conference following talks with his Armenian counterpart in Moscow on April 8.

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  • Europe

Israel slams Russia's foreign minister for comparing Zelenskyy to Hitler

Israeli officials are calling for an apology after Sergey Lavrov said the Hitler "had Jewish origins." It's the strongest condemnation of Russia by Israel since the war in Ukraine began in February.

May 02, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
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  • National

Whoopi Goldberg suspended for 2 weeks over Holocaust remarks

The suspension came a day after Goldberg's comment during a discussion on The View that race was not a factor in the Holocaust.

February 02, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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