A Holocaust survivor and poultry farmer presented a hand-drawn map and yellowed instructions pointing to a fake grave near the Syrian border; rival clues led searchers to scrap metal, a hyena's den and claims the gold had been found long…
Some reflections on the capitalist roots of the Holocaust. Thoughts on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust Some reflections on the capitalist roots of the Holocaust. Even seventy years later, having learned nothing, Western intellectuals still love to…
[This is part 2 of this article.] While the industrialized murder of six million people is in a category all its own, one can observe in daily life many of the tendencies that make it possible. The thinking that sees the…
Some information on often overshadowed victims of Nazi aggression, and what their suffering tells us about the nature of totalitarianism. You could also be black triangle for having a criminal record even if you had not committed a crime recently,…
Vienna wasn’t always friendly to Jews – they were persecuted and tolerated in turn by successive Habsburgs. But in 1867 Emperor Franz Joseph granted them citizenship and, until the end of the empire in 1918, Vienna was the centre of a European culture…
The 31,000-square-foot center, being built next to Burton Barr Library, will be Arizona’s first facility fully dedicated to Holocaust history and local survivors. Holocaust survivor Oskar Knoblauch, who turns 101 next month, shared his story at the construction site. The center…
The closing of the Western mind begins when people stop asking whether an argument is true and start asking whether its author belongs to the right camp. A claim is judged by identity before evidence. Disagreement becomes a charge. In…
Esther Perel is a famous psychotherapist and host of the podcast Where Should We Begin. She told Wild Card's Rachel Martin that her parents' experience as holocaust survivors shaped her worldview. How Esther Perel's parents' experience as Holocaust survivors shaped…
In July 1995, I survived the genocide in Srebrenica. I was 20 years old. More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered. Thirty-one years later, I manage the institution responsible for preserving the memory and the evidence of what happened. Among…
Home » Remembering the Holocaust Gens-Ustjanauskas recalls carrying a cyanide pill with her as she walked through the Vilna Ghetto, prepared at any moment to swallow it if she was at risk of being captured and tortured. She and her family…
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