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Andrée Geulen: Resistance fighter who saved Jewish children in Belgium

Under the code name Claude Fournier, Geulen rescued hundreds of children who would otherwise have fallen into Nazi hands

The Independent UK

BBC The One Show fans floored by Matt Lucas's tragic story

The comedian appeared on the popular show alongside mum Diana

Liverpool Echo

BBC The One Show viewers stunned at Matt Lucas' appearance

The Bake Off host also had an important family story to share on the BBC One show

Manchester Evening News

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Moral ambiguity and the representation of genocide – is there a limit to what can be depicted?

On January 10 2022, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus from the school’s curriculum, and ban it. The board cited concerns about nudity and profanity, implicitly raising broader questions about the book’s depiction of violence.

The Conversation

Your past is my present – how Volodymyr Zelenskyy uses history

Since Russia’s war against his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has directly addressed the elected representatives of multiple countries in his quest for international support. These speeches have made explicit references to parallels between his country’s current plight and the particular historical experiences of these nations.

The Conversation

Police officer gets $1.5m settlement to resign after antisemitic behavior

Assistant police chief Derek Kammerzell from Washington pinned Nazi insignia on his office door and made jokes about the Holocaust

The Guardian - US

PulitzerPrize- Winning Historian Details Pius XII’s Troubling Alliances With Mussolini, Hitler

New book examines the controversial WWII legacy of the pontiff known as “Hitler's Pope.”

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The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – how an Auschwitz breakout alerted the world

The gripping and heroic story of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped the death camp in order to tell the world about its horrors

The Guardian - UK

80 years ago Anne Frank started her diary, a landmark of world literature

Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank began keeping her now-famous diary on June 12, 1942. She would spend a little more than two years confiding in its pages, sharing stories from daily life, observations, and hopes for the future from the cramped annex in Amsterdam she occupied with her family and several other…

France 24

City in Washington state to pay $1.5 million to settle dispute with assistant police chief who displayed Nazi insignia

SEATTLE — The city of Kent will pay more than $1.5 million to settle a dispute with a former assistant police chief who was disciplined for posting a Nazi rank insignia on his office door and joking about the Holocaust.

Tribune News Service

White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media

White nationalists and supremacists are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms like Instagram, Telegram and TikTok

The Independent UK

The Holocaust in Latvia: Author Linda Kinstler on her family's role and collective memory

Journalist and author Linda Kinstler's new book, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends", combines a deeply personal family history during World War II with the universal themes of collective memory, justice and national identity. The topics are all the more relevant as Europe grapples with its…

France 24

Holocaust memorial chairman thanks pope for opening archives

The chairman of the Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial says he thanked Pope Francis, in their talks on Thursday, at the Vatican, for letting scholars have access to the Holy See's World War II archives

The Independent UK

Stranger Things fans advised not to get Eleven tattoo themselves

Wrist inking has horrific connotations

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The Guardian - UK

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – the man who broke out of Auschwitz

The astonishing story of how Rudolf Vrba escaped the Nazi camp, and his mission to tell the world about it

The Independent UK

Vatican's Pius XII archives begin to shed light on WWII pope

The first scholarship is beginning to emerge about the World War II-era Pope Pius XII, two years after the Vatican opened its archives

The Guardian - AU

Indian MP visiting Australia appears to equate Muslim conquest of India with Holocaust

BJP’s Tejasvi Surya’s comments come as Muslim student associations, religious groups and academics protest his visit

Daily Mirror

How truth behind gas chambers and death camps was exposed by one man 80 years ago

A newspaper described how Nazis were using mobile gas chambers for industrialised murder and that 'an average of 1,000 Jews were gassed daily' - but the story was ignored at first

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Tent Embassy representative takes aim at Uluru Statement from the Heart on Q+A

The Albanese government says it will implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but the move is challenged by a representative from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Q+A.

Evening Standard

‘A great moment in history’: Holocaust survivor remembers Queen’s 1953 coronation ahead of Jubilee

George Vulkan, 93, served as a guard at the monarch’s Coronation and said he is ‘proud’ to see her 70-year reign celebrated

The Conversation

Stolpersteine: UK joins the world's largest Holocaust memorial

The world’s largest memorial is about to get a little bigger, as it comes to Britain for the first time. It began life in 1992, when German artist Gunter Demnig laid the first “Stolperstein” – or stumbling stone – in Cologne, Germany. Since then, more than 75,000 memorials, each the…

Irish Mirror

Jimmy Carr's Irish roots as his dad labels him a 'disgrace' and his real thoughts on living in Limerick

“I am not shocked or surprised that my son referred to Limerick and Slough as [sh** towns ]"

Radio France Internationale

Paris Perspective #30: Eighty years since Nazi yellow star decree – Robert Ejnes

On 29 May, 1942, the Nazi occupation of Northern France banned Jews from appearing in public without wearing a yellow star on their left breast. Paris Perspective looks back at this dark period in French history, while taking the temperature of the current situation regarding anti-Semitism in France and the…

Newsroom.co.nz

Short story: Ebony, by CK Stead

"He had not heard the news that I was dead": new fiction by CK Stead

The Conversation

Anne Frank's diary at 75: why it holds a special place in Holocaust literature

The best-selling Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan recently declared that the case of Anne Frank’s betrayal had been solved. Anne and her family, in hiding in Amsterdam, had been denounced by one Arnold van den Bergh, a well-known notary and member of the Amsterdam Jewish Council who handed over lists of…

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