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Amsterdam to Halt in Memory of Strike Over Nazi Persecution of Jews
In 1941, tram drivers objected to roundup of Jewish men, and a rare public show of disobedience spread across the city. Tram traffic in…
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Holocaust denial on the rise in Eastern Europe
After Lithuania changed the definition of ‘genocide’ and Baltic countries have turned murderers of Jews into national heroes, Holocaust researchers are accusing the State of Israel…
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Opening of Holocaust era archives may shed light on French collaboration with Nazis
Holocaust historians this week welcomed Paris’s decision to open up the records of the Vichy regime, a puppet government set…
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How Hitler’s PERSONAL photographer captured for history the plight of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland
She has such natural beauty, she could pass for a movie star. She smiles, her demeanour relaxed. In normal times, this young woman would surely have enjoyed a bright and…
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Growing Up Absurd in Auschwitz
An immersion in Auschwitz during the mass murder frenzy of October 1944, when the gassing of Hungarian Jews had…
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The Fake Diamond Ring That Saved Jews From the Nazis
Inside a tiny box in a temperature-controlled, locked cabinet at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is a ring. It is not particularly beautiful, and in purely monetary…
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German cinema rediscovers Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — With two new films, German cinema has rediscovered the country’s fiercest Nazi hunter, former prosecutor Fritz Bauer, honoring a…
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Unearthing the Polish Underground’s Complex Past
It may be a good thing Joshua Zimmerman didn’t start researching his book “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945” now. Even without the recent victory of right-wing Law…
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