The virtual Holocaust survivor: how history gained new dimensions

When algorithms are choosing the answers and the order in which they are spoken, are…

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Holocaust survivors can genetically pass trauma down to their children

Holocaust survivors can genetically pass trauma down to their children A few weeks ago I was sitting in my therapist’s office and talking about struggles I have with my father and some of…

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Lohmann: His mother’s sweater was ‘our lifeline’ during WWII

Jay Ipson admires a replica of a sweater his mother wore past the Nazis in World War II….

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Auschwitz guard jailed for five years in Holocaust murder trial

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people at…

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Michigan requires public schools to teach about Holocaust

The Holocaust during World War II and the 1915 to 1920 massacre of Armenians must be taught in Michigan public schools under a…

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Comparing Israel to Nazis Is anti-Semitic, Says International Body

An intergovernmental body devoted to commemorating the Holocaust adopted a…

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U.S. Holocaust Museum gets a treasured Auschwitz manuscript by Primo Levi

An early draft of Primo Levi’s holocaust memoir, “Survival in Auschwitz,” which was donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial…

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After almost half a century, thousands of personal items of the victims of Auschwitz, are returning to the Memorial

More than 16 thousand personal items belonging to the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, originating from archaeological works carried out in the area of…

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This Day In Jewish History 1940: Auschwitz Gets Its First Big Shipment of Prisoners

On June 14, 1940, the Auschwitz concentration camp received its first large shipment of prisoners – 728 political detainees transferred…

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US House passes measure calling on Germany to increase Holocaust

Nazi death camp survivors. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution calling on Germany to increase restitution support…

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