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Never again would humanity let this happen?

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The United Nations established Jan. 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day to mark the day in 1945 when Auschwitz was liberated. The German Nazis built Auschwitz and thousands of other concentration and death camps to imprison...
Graves of Kibbutz Be'eri residents who were murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

Earn the right to say ‘never again’

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day has perhaps never been more difficult to observe. It should be a day to contemplate the antisemitism that murdered six million Jews. It should be a moment to reject viewing...
Israeli flag. Credit: Anna Aybetova/Shutterstock.

A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day

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It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organizations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. It’s long been clear that much...
Memorial candle. credit: Manfred Richter/Pixabay.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is different this year

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As the author of two post-Holocaust novels and a former high school history teacher, my guiding assumption before the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel was that the Holocaust was a unique event in...
A visitor looks at the photographs of camp inmates in Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial in Oswiecim, Poland. Credit: Shutterstock/Desi H. Sitorus.

Incorporating innovation to teach a new generation about the Shoah

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Sometimes, boredom becomes the mother of inspiration. Holocaust educator Adi Rabinowitz Bedein was listening to presentations from top scholars in her field at a conference she attended last year. One read the entire paper. Another...
The visitor reception center of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, and the former prisoner reception center of Auschwitz I. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro tour Auschwitz-Birkenau site while in Poland

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Ahead of a conversation at a European Jewish Association event in Krakow, Poland, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro took some time on Monday to tour the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Rabbi Menachem Margolin, chairman of the...
The Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Credit: Courtesy.

Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Ohio museum is free

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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held annually on Jan. 27, and in response to “the unprecedented rise in Holocaust denial and antisemitism,” the Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center in Cincinnati...
Jewish twins were kept alive to be used in Dr. Josef Mengele's medical experiments. These children from Auschwitz were liberated by the Red Army in January 1945. Credit: USHMM/Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography.

AJC survey: Half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust

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Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to an American Jewish Committee public opinion survey released ahead of International...

Renowned Holocaust survivor and educator to be awarded one of Poland’s highest honors

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Legendary Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg will be posthumously awarded one of Poland’s highest honors this Friday in New York. The Polish Consulate of New York will be presenting Mosberg’s family with the Great Cross of...
This toy kitchen will form part of the “Sixteen Objects” exhibition. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Holocaust objects to be displayed at German parliament

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An exhibition of Holocaust-era items from the collections of Yad Vashem whose stories are intertwined with Jews from Germany will open in the Bundestag next week, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jerusalem-based...