• Holocaust Denier and Nazi Sympathizer Buried in Arlington National Cemetery

    A U.S. soldier wounded in World War II who later became an outspoken Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Willis Carto, who died at 89 in October, was interred at the military cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported. He founded the Liberty Lobby, a white supremacist […]

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  • Film Alone in Berlin: How Ordinary Germans Defied Hitler

    It’s very strange to be at the Berlin Film Festival, watching a film that is set in Berlin, which has Berlin in its title… and to hear all of the actors speaking in English. What makes it even stranger is that Alone in Berlin is all about someone writing postcards, so we keep seeing shots […]

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  • Oberlin Professor’s anti-Semitic Posts Are ‘Personal Views,’ Says College

    In response to an article revealing that an Oberlin College professor made numerous postings about Jews and Israel to Facebook, the liberal arts college’s president said the college “respects the right of its faculty, students, staff and alumni to express their personal views.” Marvin Krislov’s statement came after The Tower on Thursday published an article […]

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  • Students at Canada’s McGill University Reject BDS Motion

    Students at Montreal’s McGill University failed to ratify a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions motion against Israel. In online voting last week by undergraduates, the motion was rejected 2,819-2,119 (57 percent to 43 percent), with 440 abstentions. It had passed in the university’s student society on February 22 by a vote of 512-357, and was seen […]

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  • But You Did Not Come Back review – a Holocaust survivor’s love letter to her father

    Marceline Loridan-Ivens was 15 when, in April 1944, she was arrested along with her father by the Nazis and sent from occupied France to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Marceline would make it home. Her father would not. But You Did Not Come Back is Loridan-Ivens’s extraordinary, unflinching and deeply moving memoir of the year she spent in Birkenau, […]

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  • Sacred scrolls that survived Holocaust reunited after more than 50 years

    The last time they were all together was more than five decades ago, shortly after they were rescued from a damp, dark warehouse in Prague. The group ended up at Westminster Synagogue in London, where they were given a new lease on life. After a short stay, most of them ended up somewhere else — […]

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  • Jesse Owens, a Film Hero Once Again

    More than any other athlete of his era, Jesse Owens’s image on film has determined his fate. It all began with those few seconds of the 100-meter dash that Leni Riefenstahl enshrined in her film “Olympia, Part 1”: the close-up on Owens’s face, the white flare of the starting gun, Owens’s lurch, and then his […]

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  • Holocuast Survivors Build Life On Love In Montreal

    After rebuilding their lives in Canada following the Holocaust, Ernest and Ella Ehrman travel into the dark past – to help light the way for generations to come. On a snowy day in Montreal, Ella and Ernest Ehrman sit side by side at the long dining table in their living room, pouring over their wedding […]

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  • Nazi commandant’s granddaughter to speak on uncovering her family’s history at Atlanta synagogue

    During a seemingly ordinary trip to the library a Nigerian-German woman stumbled upon a piece of her familial history that would connect her to the Holocaust. As a child Jennifer Teege watched Steven Spielberg’sfilm “Schindler’s List.” She remembered the scene in which commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp Amon Goeth (played by Ralph Fiennes) stood […]

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  • Rap star B.o.B.’s latest track promotes Holocaust denier

    (JTA) — The Grammy-nominated rap star B.o.B. in his new song offers support for Holocaust denier David Irving, along with reiterating a claim made on Twitter that the earth is flat. The track, released Monday two days ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day in response to a Twitter argument with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the […]

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