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Opinion Zeev Porath Chronicled Nazi Rapists And Other Atrocities – In His Drawings
Sometime in 1943, a 35-year-old architect sat at a drafting desk on the third floor of the headquarters building in the infamous Janowska concentration camp in Lviv in what is now Ukraine. Over 80,000 Jews were murdered at this camp and it served as the main deportation center for 160,000 Jews of Lviv (a number…
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Fast Forward More White Nationalists Are Running For Office Than Ever Before
At least eight white nationalists are running for state or federal office, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center. Anti-hate groups have reported that this is more than in any other election in modern history. MSNBC’s Morgan Radford spoke with white nationalists who are running for federal office this year on the Republican ticket. Many…
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Fast Forward Roseanne’s Tweet Insulted All Holocaust Survivors, Says Soros’s Son
Roseanne Barr’s racist Twitter outburst on Tuesday, which led to her hit show being cancelled by ABC, was also criticized by the son of George Soros, the Jewish billionaire financier whom Barr claimed in her rant to have collaborated with the Nazis. “Because of his lifelong dedication to human rights and social justice, my father…
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Fast Forward British Blogger Who Sang About Holocaust Denial Convicted
(JTA) — A British blogger who posted songs on YouTube denying the Holocaust was convicted in London of sending “offensive, indecent or menacing messages.” Alison Chabloz, 54, was convicted by a Westminster Magistrates’ Court judge Friday for writing, performing and disseminating three songs about Nazi persecution, including one about the young diarist Anne Frank. Chabloz,…
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Community Would Guns Have Saved Jews From The Holocaust?
Each time the gun control debate comes up in discourse in the United States, someone invariably mentions that if the Jews were armed, the Holocaust would not have occurred. In February 2018, US Representative Don Young also made the same statement, which made countless Facebook memes pop up again, in addition to other social media…
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Fast Forward Poland Asks Germany For ‘Priceless’ Documents That Would Prove Poles Saved Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Poland has asked Germany to return archival documents regarding war crimes and saving Jews. The parliamentary team for estimating the amount of compensation due to Poland from Germany, which is led by Law and Justice Party lawmaker Arkadiusz Mularczyk, wants to recover historical documents from Germany regarding the period of the…
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Community The German Policeman Who Saved Torah Scrolls During The Holocaust
An old man in a blue kibbutz cap, who grew up in the same German village as my father, showed me the Torah that had been rescued during Kristallnacht — not by the Jews, but by Christian neighbors: “Ja , Nazi orders or no, the Christians decided to save what they could for the Jews. They…
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Community Why Did The Holocaust Museum Omit A Key Advocate For Jews?
One of the most important Americans to speak out against the Holocaust has been omitted from the U.S. Holocaust Museum’s new exhibit on “Americans and the Holocaust.” How could this have happened? James G. McDonald (1886-1964) was an unlikely figure to end up playing a prominent role in Jewish affairs. A Catholic from the Midwest…
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