Holocaust

‘Wonder’ author R.J. Palacio tells us why her new book is a Holocaust story

And explains why she decided to publish this particular story in 2019.

Ideas

How the late French president Jacques Chirac started France’s reckoning with the Holocaust

Though Jacques Chirac was a a political chameleon and a hypocrite, he also started an important conversation about France’s complicity in the Holocaust, writes a European journalist.

Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 106

Marko Feingold continued to speak, especially to school children, about his experiences in the Holocaust until the end, the AFP reported.

Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library (Wikimedia Commons)

United States

Yeshiva University to open new Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center

United States

Yale launches Holocaust survivors podcast

Young children, tired of the stifling atmosphere of the synagogue, come outside to be with their mother in Djerba, Tunisia. January 01, 1950. 850,000 refugees from Tunisia and other Arab countries were expelled after the creation of Israel. (Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Israel

Israeli schools to teach about fate of North African Jews in the Holocaust

Ideas

Reading Anne Frank helped me start learning about Jews – and understand my own Native American history

Ideas

Legacy institutions don’t get to dictate how Jews use the lessons of the Holocaust

Global

Croatia’s capital announces Holocaust memorial, but local Jews aren’t satisfied

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a briefing in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2019. She has sparked a debate about the use of the term "concentration camps." (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

United States

US Holocaust Museum rejects all ‘analogies between the Holocaust and other events’

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