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A reporter’s great-grandfather was poisoned in Chicago in 1935. She set out to learn if it was an accident — or murder

CHICAGO -- My great-grandfather, Irving, followed in his older brother’s footsteps when he emigrated from Poland to Chicago a century ago. This was a crucial move for the brothers because three of their siblings who stayed behind in Europe later died in the Holocaust.

Chicago Tribune

Netflix hit Stranger Things slammed for using Nazi prison and brutal asylum in new series

Netflix has used sites of past atrocities as locations or inspiration for its nostalgic hit show Stranger Things — including a plan to let fans book a themed cell in a former holocaust prison on Airbnb.

ABC News

When Spiegelman's Maus Was Challenged, Sales Spiked

How school board members lashed out against dirty words

Reason

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It Takes a Family review – a family broken by the Holocaust unpick their trauma

Susanne Kovács’s investigation into her Jewish Hungarian family’s past reveals untidy truths about memory and history

The Guardian - UK

Arnold Brown: Celebrating Scotland’s King of 'woke' comedy

COMEDY fans are preparing themselves for the post-Covid return of the huge jamboree of humour that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As they do so,…

The National (Scotland)

As Israel Heads Back to Elections, Lapid Stakes Out Vision

Israel’s parliament voted Thursday to dissolve itself, triggering the country's fifth election in just over three years and thrusting veteran politician Yair Lapid into the role of interim prime minister as he tries to persuade a deeply polarized nation to embrace his centrist vision. Polls indicate it will be a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Billions of looted Nazi dollars in mystery Swiss bank account sparks treasure hunt

it is feared the enormous fortune is hidden in a Credit Suisse bank account after a 500-page list was found in Argentina containing the names of Nazis and sympathisers

Daily Mirror

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Laurence Fox banned from Twitter after posting ‘abhorrent’ swastika symbol made out of Pride flags

The Holocaust Memorial Trust was among the organisations condemning the actor for sharing the ‘vile’ image

Evening Standard

Prince Charles wants Britain's slave trade history to be taught in schools

Reports say he believes it should be covered as widely as the Holocaust

Wales Online

Prince Charles ‘wants slave trade to be taught as widely as Holocaust’

Prince Charles reportedly wants schools to teach more widely about the transatlantic slave trade

The Independent UK

Prince Charles accepted suitcase stuffed with €1million in cash from Qatari Sheikh

The Prince of Wales Prince Charles is alleged to have personally received the cash €500 notes from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, who was the prime minister of Qatar between 2011 and 2015

Daily Mirror

Editorial: Teaching history: On the US, the Holocaust and the enduring lessons of the past

At a panel discussion at the Holocaust museum in New York this week for his forthcoming film, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” Ken Burns said that instead of the planned 2023 debut, he intentionally moved up the six-hour PBS broadcast date of the documentary, which has been in the works…

Tribune News Service

Whoopi Goldberg: More than 36,000 people sign petition to remove star from The View

Host was condemned for Holocaust comments on the show in January

The Independent UK

Poland wants formal rules for Israeli Holocaust study trips

A Polish official says his government wants formal rules to regulate the terms under which Israeli schoolchildren pay Holocaust study visits to the country, including on the presence of armed Israeli guards

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The Independent UK

The teddy bear that represents surviving the Holocaust

Holocaust Memorial Day: An online experience will tell the stories of four survivors and victims

The Independent UK

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

Liverpool Echo

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

The comedian appeared on the popular show alongside mum Diana

Manchester Evening News

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

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The Conversation

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 Guardian - US

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

Zenger

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.”

The Guardian - UK

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

France 24

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…

Tribune News Service

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.

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