Tag: Holocaust
Surmounting Lithuania’s Holocaust past
Since its independence from the Soviet Union, an arduous and painful process in itself, Lithuania has gone to great lengths to take its place among the democracies of Europe. Securing both NATO and European...
Surmounting Lithuania’s Holocaust past
Since its independence from the Soviet Union, an arduous and painful process in itself, Lithuania has gone to great lengths to take its place among the democracies of Europe. Securing both NATO and European...
Tackling Holocaust whitewash
AUSTRALIAN Holocaust researchers have applauded an activist’s campaign for the truth about the World War II records of two Lithuanians he claims have had their anti-Semitic activities whitewashed by Lithuania’s state-run research into the...
A Dominican development project inspired by the sad history of the Evian Conference
With the intention of rescuing the history of Sosua and the attempt to save 100,000 Jews by offering them refuge in the Dominican Republic, the government of this country and Hugh Baver are working...
Tom Segev, Holocaust Living History Workshop at UCSD
Born in Jerusalem to parents who had fled Nazi Germany, Israeli journalist Tom Segev is a leading figure among the so-called New Historians, who have challenged many of Israel’s traditional narratives or “founding myths.”
His...
Dehumanization
In 1942, a pamphlet hit the German newsstands, entitled The Subhuman, edited by Heinrich Himmler and published under the imprimatur of the SS. Its purpose was to educate the German public about the threat...
Meet Marita Lorenz, Holocaust survivor, raped by a US soldier, CIA spy, Castro Lover…
He explained, she said, "We killed the President that day. You could have been a part of it - you know, part of history. You should have stayed."
From the Testimony of Marita Lorenz at...
Guatemala to Welcome First Central American Holocaust Museum
A colonial-era house in Guatemala City, Guatemala will be the site of the Museo del Holocausto, the first Holocaust museum in Central America. It is set to open before the end of the year according...
Holocaust Survivors Rock The Runway In Israel Beauty Pageant
Their hair styled and make-up applied, a group of elderly women carefully take to a red carpet catwalk, waving, blowing kisses and posing for pictures to cheering crowds.
Wearing dresses adorned with sashes, the women...
Seeking Holocaust reconciliation in Lithuania, from Los Angeles
The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, occupies a stately stone building on a large, forested park in the city’s center. It is notably not a Holocaust museum. To find...