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Holocaust Memorial Day: Speaker Hoyle urges people to call out intolerance

Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg and shadow minister David Lammy were among those taking part in a commemoration in Portcullis House.

The Independent UK

Maus: Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about Holocaust banned by US school district

Author Art Spiegelman said he was ‘baffled’ by the school board’s decision and called it ‘Orwellian’

Evening Standard

A Tennessee school board just banned 'Maus'

Banning one of the most famous Holocaust educational works of all time is spawned from the same garbage attacks conservatives used against critical race theory.

Mic

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"Maus" yanked from schools: "Orwellian"

A Tennessee school board voted to pull Art Spiegelman's "Maus" – an award-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust

Salon

Book about Holocaust banned in Tennessee school district

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman

The Independent UK

Holocaust has been trivialised in anti-lockdown protests, says Israel

‘Please leave the word ‘Holocaust’ for the Holocaust - and nothing but it,’ former chief rabbi urges

The Independent UK

Holocaust survivor decries 'abuse' of yellow star at COVID protests

Centenarian Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender urged the young generation on Thursday to always remember the Nazi genocide and denounced the use by some anti-COVID vaccination protesters of the yellow star Jews were forced to wear.

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TikTok reveals new features to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Aims to improve knowledge surrounding the Holocaust and tackle antisemitism

Wales Online

Memory of Scottish teacher Jane Haining who died in Auschwitz to be honoured

Miss Haining refused to leave the school in Hungary where she worked at the outbreak of the Second World War and was later arrested by the Gestapo.

The Independent UK

In El Paso, a Holocaust Museum and a ‘Rebirth’ of Faith

January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day. El Paso and a handful of other Texas cities are home to museums that educate on racism and connect the community.

Texas Observer

What is Holocaust Memorial Day, what is theme for 2022 – and why do we mark it?

National Holocaust Day, or Holocaust Memorial Day, remembers the victims of the Holocaust during the Second World War. Here's what you need to know about the memorial day and how it's marked

Daily Mirror

Maus author hits out at ‘Orwellian’ school district banning his acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel

The McMinn County School board in Tennessee voted 10-0 to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel

The Independent UK

I have wept over horrors of Holocaust, says former Scottish Tory leader

Jackson Carlaw was speaking in a Holyrood debate to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

The Independent UK

TikTok adds new features to educate users on the Holocaust and antisemitism

The video-sharing app is adding new banners to search results directing users to more information on the subject.

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France 24

How three-quarters of French Jews survived the Holocaust, despite the Vichy regime

The fate of France’s Jews during World War II has become an unlikely topic of debate in the run-up to the French presidential election, exhumed by a revisionist candidate’s widely debunked claims that the Nazi-allied Vichy regime offered them protection. FRANCE 24 spoke to historian Jacques Sémelin, whose latest book…

AFP

Haunted by Holocaust, Israeli group helps fleeing Afghans

Tel Aviv (AFP) - When Israeli lawyer Inbar Nacht saw pictures last year of Afghans desperately trying to escape their homeland, she thought of her relatives who were murdered in the Holocaust and knew she had to act.

Daily Mirror

GMB studio emotional as Holocaust survivor shares decision not to have Auschwitz tattoo removed

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert has become a TikTok star and appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain alongside her 18-year-old great-grandson to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

Manchester Evening News

What are the purple badges that MPs are wearing?

Here's how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the significance of the purple and pink flame badges

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The Independent UK

Holocaust Memorial Day: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies,’ says new study

Novel by John Boyne is widely used in schools despite historical inaccuracies

Reuters

Israel sees Holocaust tropes in COVID protests fuelling anti-Semitism

Protesters against COVID-19 measures who liken themselves to Jews under Nazi persecution are stoking global anti-Semitism, the Israeli government said in a report marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The Independent UK

EU honors camp survivor as world remembers Holocaust

European Union lawmakers will observe a minute’s silence Thursday and welcome a centenarian Holocaust survivor as the world commemorates the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp and remembers Nazi atrocities

Wales Online

'My mother fled the Holocaust aged 12 clutching a tin that we still have today'

On Holocaust Memorial Day Ruth Joseph remembers her family's story. The grandparents and aunts she never met were among the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis

The Guardian - UK

On Holocaust Memorial Day let’s commit to ridding football of antisemitism

Hate in the stadium does not stay in the stadium and we all have a responsibility to remember and act

The Independent UK

Tennessee school board’s ‘demented’ move to ban Holocaust novel Maus met with bafflement and anger

Pulitzer prize-winning author Art Spiegelman calls the decision ‘Orwellian’

Radio France Internationale

France pays homage to Holocaust victims at Auschwitz memorial

French Prime Minister Jean Castex heads a special delegation to the Auschwitz Holocaust memorial in Poland on Thursday to mark the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp. The visit comes a week after the UN adopted a non-binding resolution to fight against Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism,…

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