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Genocide survivors urge compassion for migrants ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day

It comes after more than 28,000 people crossed the English Channel illegally to try to reach the UK last year.

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022

Holocaust Museum criticizes RFK Jr. for Anne Frank comment

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says anti-vaccine activist Robert F

The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2022

Yizker bikher books commemorate Holocaust deaths – but also celebrate Jewish communities' life

Each year on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex in Poland, an International Day of Commemoration memorializes the victims of the Holocaust. This somber day focuses on the destruction the Nazis and their collaborators inflicted on Jewish communities throughout Europe. But there is another…

The Conversation · Jan 24, 2022

My Berlin meeting with an ex Nazi

Thirty years ago, Jay Rayner sat down for lunch with Ewald Althans, a Holocaust denier and rising star of the far right. So how did the former Nazi end up working in the arts and marrying his Taiwanese boyfriend?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2022

Jewish leaders urge worship attendance after hostage siege

Jewish leaders throughout the U.S. are calling for a strong turnout at this weekend’s worship services in defiance of antisemitic acts such as last weekend’s hostage siege at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas

The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2022

US academics use radar to help seek missing in split Cyprus

U.S. academics who help locate Holocaust mass graves and execution sites in Eastern Europe have used high-tech, ground-penetrating radar to identify potential burial sites of people who disappeared amid war and interethnic strife in Cyprus decades ago

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2022

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Holocaust and history; a young gay man in South Korea; a wartime epic from Finland; plus two tales of love and abandonment

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21, 2022

UN Approves Resolution Condemning Denial of Holocaust

The UN General Assembly approved an Israeli-sponsored resolution Thursday condemning any denial of the Holocaust and urging all nations and social media companies “to take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion.” The 193-member world body approved the resolution by consensus -- without a vote -- and…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 21, 2022

Azeem Rafiq marks forgiveness for anti-Semitic comments at Holocaust memorial event

Former Yorkshire spinner Azeem Rafiq attended a Holocaust memorial event and lit a candle marking the forgiveness he has received from the Jewish community for historic anti-Semitic comments

Daily Mirror · Jan 20, 2022

U.N. defines Holocaust denial, urges social media firms to fight it

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday agreed on a definition of denial of the Holocaust, when the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War Two, and urged social media companies "to take active measures" to combat antisemitism.

Reuters · Jan 20, 2022