Whoopi Goldberg: More than 36,000 people sign petition to remove star from The View Host was condemned for Holocaust comments on the show in January The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2022
Poland wants formal rules for Israeli Holocaust study trips A Polish official says his government wants formal rules to regulate the terms under which Israeli schoolchildren pay Holocaust study visits to the country, including on the presence of armed Israeli guards The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2022
The teddy bear that represents surviving the Holocaust Holocaust Memorial Day: An online experience will tell the stories of four survivors and victims The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2022
Andrée Geulen: Resistance fighter who saved Jewish children in Belgium Under the code name Claude Fournier, Geulen rescued hundreds of children who would otherwise have fallen into Nazi hands The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2022
BBC The One Show fans floored by Matt Lucas's tragic story The comedian appeared on the popular show alongside mum Diana Liverpool Echo · Jun 17, 2022
BBC The One Show viewers stunned at Matt Lucas' appearance The Bake Off host also had an important family story to share on the BBC One show Manchester Evening News · Jun 17, 2022
Moral ambiguity and the representation of genocide – is there a limit to what can be depicted? On January 10 2022, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus from the school’s curriculum, and ban it. The board cited concerns about nudity and profanity, implicitly raising broader questions about the book’s depiction of violence. The Conversation · Jun 16, 2022
Your past is my present – how Volodymyr Zelenskyy uses history Since Russia’s war against his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has directly addressed the elected representatives of multiple countries in his quest for international support. These speeches have made explicit references to parallels between his country’s current plight and the particular historical experiences of these nations. The Conversation · Jun 16, 2022
Police officer gets $1.5m settlement to resign after antisemitic behavior Assistant police chief Derek Kammerzell from Washington pinned Nazi insignia on his office door and made jokes about the Holocaust The Guardian - US · Jun 14, 2022
PulitzerPrize- Winning Historian Details Pius XII’s Troubling Alliances With Mussolini, Hitler New book examines the controversial WWII legacy of the pontiff known as “Hitler's Pope.” Zenger · Jun 13, 2022
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – how an Auschwitz breakout alerted the world The gripping and heroic story of Rudolf Vrba, who escaped the death camp in order to tell the world about its horrors The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2022
80 years ago Anne Frank started her diary, a landmark of world literature Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank began keeping her now-famous diary on June 12, 1942. She would spend a little more than two years confiding in its pages, sharing stories from daily life, observations, and hopes for the future from the cramped annex in Amsterdam she occupied with her family and several other… France 24 · Jun 12, 2022
City in Washington state to pay $1.5 million to settle dispute with assistant police chief who displayed Nazi insignia SEATTLE — The city of Kent will pay more than $1.5 million to settle a dispute with a former assistant police chief who was disciplined for posting a Nazi rank insignia on his office door and joking about the Holocaust. Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022
White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media White nationalists and supremacists are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms like Instagram, Telegram and TikTok The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2022
France 24 · Jun 10, 2022 The Holocaust in Latvia: Author Linda Kinstler on her family's role and collective memory Journalist and author Linda Kinstler's new book, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends", combines a deeply personal family history during World War II with the universal themes of collective memory, justice and national identity. The topics are all the more relevant as Europe grapples with its…
The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2022 Holocaust memorial chairman thanks pope for opening archives The chairman of the Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial says he thanked Pope Francis, in their talks on Thursday, at the Vatican, for letting scholars have access to the Holy See's World War II archives
Wales Online · Jun 9, 2022 Stranger Things fans advised not to get Eleven tattoo themselves Wrist inking has horrific connotations
The Guardian - UK · Jun 8, 2022 The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – the man who broke out of Auschwitz The astonishing story of how Rudolf Vrba escaped the Nazi camp, and his mission to tell the world about it
The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022 Vatican's Pius XII archives begin to shed light on WWII pope The first scholarship is beginning to emerge about the World War II-era Pope Pius XII, two years after the Vatican opened its archives
The Guardian - AU · Jun 3, 2022 Indian MP visiting Australia appears to equate Muslim conquest of India with Holocaust BJP’s Tejasvi Surya’s comments come as Muslim student associations, religious groups and academics protest his visit
Daily Mirror · Jun 3, 2022 How truth behind gas chambers and death camps was exposed by one man 80 years ago A newspaper described how Nazis were using mobile gas chambers for industrialised murder and that 'an average of 1,000 Jews were gassed daily' - but the story was ignored at first
ABC News · Jun 2, 2022 Tent Embassy representative takes aim at Uluru Statement from the Heart on Q+A The Albanese government says it will implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but the move is challenged by a representative from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on Q+A.
Evening Standard · Jun 1, 2022 ‘A great moment in history’: Holocaust survivor remembers Queen’s 1953 coronation ahead of Jubilee George Vulkan, 93, served as a guard at the monarch’s Coronation and said he is ‘proud’ to see her 70-year reign celebrated
The Conversation · May 31, 2022 Stolpersteine: UK joins the world's largest Holocaust memorial The world’s largest memorial is about to get a little bigger, as it comes to Britain for the first time. It began life in 1992, when German artist Gunter Demnig laid the first “Stolperstein” – or stumbling stone – in Cologne, Germany. Since then, more than 75,000 memorials, each the…
Irish Mirror · May 30, 2022 Jimmy Carr's Irish roots as his dad labels him a 'disgrace' and his real thoughts on living in Limerick “I am not shocked or surprised that my son referred to Limerick and Slough as [sh** towns ]"