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Artificial intelligence preserving our ability to converse with Holocaust survivors even after they die
Most survivors of World War II's Nazi concentration camps are now in their 80s and 90s, and soon there will be no one left who experienced the horrors of the Holocaust firsthand -- no one to answer questions or bear witness to future generations.
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Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial
Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content according to an analysis that will increase pressure on the social media giant to remove antisemitic content relating to the Nazi genocide.
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Two Friends Who Escaped from Auschwitz and Warned the World
Thirty years ago, Alfred Wetzler died in his native Slovakia. He and his friend, Rudolf Vrba, risked their lives and escaped Auschwitz so they could warn other Jews and the world in precise detail what was happening behind the fences and gates of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp.
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Extinction Rebellion founder’s Holocaust remarks spark fury
A co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has sparked anger in Germany after referring to the Holocaust as “just another fuckery in human history”. Roger Hallam has been accused of downplaying the Nazis’ genocide of 6 million Jews by arguing in an interview that the significance of the Holocaust has been overplayed.
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One Holocaust descendant's fight for justice: 'They stole not just our land, but my family's history'
Melbourne doctor Ann Drillich is fighting the might of the Catholic church over family land in Poland, where antisemitism and populism are on the rise
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Forty years since first German broadcast of the “Holocaust” series
Earlier this year, German public broadcasters aired the 1978 American TV series “Holocaust” on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its first broadcast in West Germany, in 1979. On that occasion, the series shook West German society, with an estimated 50 percent of the total population watching at least one episode.
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Holocaust survivor helps buy hospital bed for Polish rescuer, 102
A Holocaust survivor from Israel donated money to buy a $1,200 medical bed for a 102-year-old non-Jewish woman from Warsaw, who risked her life to save Jews from the genocide. Krystyna Danko, who is now deaf and blind, is among the oldest rescuers still alive.
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The Holocaust Survivor Who Deciphered Nazi Doublespeak
The personal papers of one of World War II’s earliest historians reveals an obsession with how Nazis distorted the German language.
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Looking back on 100 years, Holocaust survivor sees a life of 'miracles'
Olga Perlmutter was in her mid-20s when the Nazi regime captured her family, killed her siblings and forced her into slave labour at Auschwitz. Yet, looking back over the past century, she sees a life full of blessings. "All my life, I have had miracles," she said, surrounded by her devoted friends who all survived the same concentration camp and now visit her Côte Saint-Luc condo to play cards four times a week.
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Holocaust Paradox: Long Lives for Those Who Survived
My elementary school teacher taught that those who emerged from the horrors of the camps would die young. A reasonable assumption, but wrong.
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On the Way to Auschwitz, I Found ‘Heil Hitler’ Signs For Sale
On a Holocaust education trip in Poland, a writer discovers Nazi memorabilia at a flea market, in apparent violation of the law. But nothing is quite that simple.
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How an Astonishing Holocaust Diary Resurfaced in America
Hidden for 70 years, a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature—the diary of Renia Spiegel—was rediscovered inside a desk in New York
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A Lost Childhood: To Auschwitz and Back
One morning in June, with the smell of an approaching thunderstorm in the air, an elderly man, his hair carefully parted to one side and wearing a freshly ironed, collared shirt, rings the doorbell of a farmhouse in the Bohemian Forest, a low mountain range in the Czech Republic. He has a long journey behind him, across two international borders and hundreds of kilometers, the last few hundred meters of which lead down an alley lined with pear trees.
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Fox News Violates Poland’s Holocaust Law With Reference to “Polish Death Camp”
FOX news could face legal action in Poland, and a potential fine of $100 million, for violating that nation’s new law on Holocaust memory on Tuesday by repeatedly referring to a Nazi concentration camp built during the wartime German occupation of Poland as a “Polish death camp.”
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95-year old former Nazi labour camp guard deported to Germany
Germany on Tuesday took in a 95-year-old former guard at a Nazi labour camp where more than 6,000 people were killed after he was stripped of his US citizenship. The German foreign ministry said it had agreed to accept the former Ukraine national Jakiw Palij after his expulsion from the United States late Monday, citing Berlin's "moral duty" in light of the Nazis' crimes.
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My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi-fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator
A deathbed promise led to me discovering his complicity in the Holocaust — and what it means beyond my family
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Claude Lanzmann, Epic Chronicler of the Holocaust, Dies at 92
His obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth “Shoah,” a film recognized as both an important historical record and an original work of art.
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When Abbas spews anti-Semitic vitriol the response is thunderous. Not so much for Poland's prime minister
When Holocaust denial is treated differently depending on which world leader utters it, politics has trumped history and remembrance. By Lev Golinkin.
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How Ewa Kurek, the Favorite Historian of the Polish Far Right, Promotes Her Distorted Account of the Holocaust
In public events across America, including one attended by a U.S. Congressman, the formerly respected scholar Ewa Kurek accused rich Jews of plotting with the Nazis to kill their poor brethren and argued that the ghettos were voluntary
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Abbas says Jews’ behavior, not anti-Semitism, caused the Holocaust
In rambling speech, PA president gives a 'history lesson' in which he tries to negate Jewish connection to Israel, accuses Zionists of cooperating with Hitler. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said that the Holocaust was not caused by anti-Semitsm, but by the “social behavior” of the Jews, including money-lending.
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