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Theater A zombie story about the Holocaust? This audio drama makes it work.
The dead come alive as a parable for Holocaust memory in an unorthodox new audio mini-series
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Fast Forward On X, Tucker Carlson hosts ‘historian’ who says the Nazis didn’t mean for the Holocaust to happen
The conversation with Darryl Cooper was praised by Elon Musk as others called it “pro-Nazi propaganda"
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Culture Why are Jews calling anyone who disagrees with them a kapo?
The term is one of the harshest insults between Jews, yet somehow it has become just another political epithet
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Fast Forward Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic graffiti
The 1943 protest commemorated by the monument was led by non-Jewish women, most of them married to Jewish men who were detained in a building that had formerly functioned as the Jewish Welfare Administration
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Culture ‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ funnyman Jerry Lewis’ infamously terrible Holocaust movie, is having a new moment. But you still can’t watch it.
A new documentary, an announced remake and an unsealing of archival materials are giving the unfinished movie new life
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News Before this famous Polish bakery ‘opened’ in 1944, it belonged to a Jewish family killed by the Nazis
The third-generation owners of Kuźmiuk Bakery say they only learned of the site’s pre-war history in the past decade
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Fast Forward Germany court upholds conviction of 99-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary
Irmgard Furchner had appealed her 2022 conviction of being accessory to more than 10,000 murders at the Stutthof camp
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News He’s writing Kamala Harris’ DNC speech. He also wrote a book on Holocaust survivors
Adam Frankel, whose grandparents survived the Nazis, is lead writer for Harris’ acceptance speech
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