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News The First Voices To Emerge from the Holocaust: David Boder’s Nightmarish Journey, Rediscovered
It was a mysterious, mislabeled canister that sat for 50 years, undisturbed, in the University of Akron’s archives. But its recent discovery has provided a valuable addition to a precious trove of recordings: the earliest preserved voices of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, just months after their liberation. The University of Akron’s discovery, announced…
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Breaking News Human Bones Unearthed at Plaszow Concentration Camp in Poland
A construction crew unearthed bones at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow, near Krakow. The workers were repairing a decades-old gas pipeline on the property last week adjacent to the former funeral home of a Jewish cemetery on which the camp was established during World War II. The Jewish community of…
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Culture Poland Looks to Hollywood To Transform Wartime Image (and Shift Holocaust Narrative)
WARSAW — Poland’s new conservative rulers think their country faces an image problem abroad and they want Hollywood to produce a Polish equivalent of “Braveheart” or “Pearl Harbor” to promote their country’s positive place in history. They also are looking to alter the narrative when it comes to Poland, where most of the Nazi death…
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Breaking News Concentration Camp Currency Unearthed by Researchers
(JTA) — In the 70 years since the fall of the Third Reich, the trappings of Nazi power have become infamous icons of evil — think of the swastika flag, the yellow badge or the striped concentration camp uniform. But have you ever heard of “Holocaust money,” the currencies that the Nazis forced on Jews…
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Breaking News 93-Year-Old Woman Under Investigation For Role as SS Guard
A 93-year-old woman in Hamburg is under investigation for her role as an SS guard during a Nazi death march. The investigation of Hilde Michnia was announced Monday by the Hamburg prosecutors’ office. Also Monday, prosecutors in the city of Luneburg said they will try former Waffen-SS member Oskar Groening, 93, in April for his…
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Breaking News Polish Parliament Makes Partisan Who Warned of Holocaust Person of the Year
Poland’s parliament named 2014 the Year of Jan Karski, honoring the man who alerted the allies about the Holocaust and sought their intervention. Last week’s unanimous vote in the Sejm marked the centennial of the birth of Karski. Karski, not Jewish and born in Lodz in 1914, was a courier for the Polish underground resistance…
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Opinion It’s a Nazi Slogan, Dude
Readers might not expect a lot of historical analysis from the British tabloid The Daily Mail. But it shouldn’t be too much for the editors to at least remember Nazi Germany and some of its signature evil. That’s why it was particularly disturbing to see this item uncovered by the Twittersphere this morning from a…
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Opinion What the Survivor and Historian Know
Jeff Cohen’s “The Soap Myth,” as produced by the National Jewish Theater Foundation and directed by Arnold Mittleman, has brought to life on the New York stage the inherent tensions between Holocaust historians and Holocaust survivors over facts and interpretation of facts. Time and again, survivors speak of the Nazis’ making human fat into soap,…
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