One of youngest Holocaust survivors brings new story to remembrance to Cedar Rapids – The Gazette
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Erika Schwartz and her mother, Jolan Hornstein, appear in a June 1948 photo shortly after moving to New York.
New Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam aims to tell full story of persecution of Dutch Jews – Euronews
admin | March 13, 2024
A new Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam aims to tell the full story of the persecution of Dutch Jews during World War II.
She Smuggled Love, Hope, and Dynamite Over the Ghetto Walls – USC Shoah Foundation |
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Not long after Feigele (Vladka) Peltels father died of pneumonia in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, the 17-year-old found herself at a lecture about Yiddish author I.L. Peretz hosted by her social democratic youth group, Tsukunft (The Future). She doesnt precisely remember the talk, but she does recall the energy in the room
USC Shoah Foundation: We’re in most dangerous era for Jews since Holocaust – JNS.org
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(March 6, 2024 / JNS) World Jewry is facing its most dangerous period since the end of the Holocaust nearly eight decades ago, the head of the University of Southern Californias Shoah Foundation said on Tuesday. The denial of the Holocaust and the attack of Oct. 7 are yet another version of antisemitic conspiracy theories which date back to ancient, centuries-old thinking blaming Jews for [ones] own suffering, USCSF executive director Robert J
Most countries refuse to budge on Shoah art restitution – JNS.org
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(March 6, 2024 / JNS) A majority of countries have made no progress on Holocaust art restitution over the last quarter century, a report released on Monday shows. Twenty-four of 47 countries surveyed have made minimal to no progress in art and cultural property restitution, compared to only seven countries that have made major progress in the field
Thinking intensely about the holocaust, Israel and Gaza – Pearls and Irritations
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The vengeful, scheming, genocidal response unleashed since October last year in Gaza, by Israel, has prompted a profoundly intensified global review of the punishing history related to the establishment of the State of Israel and its colonial-settler expansion ever since 1948. An exceptional commentator, Pankaj Mishra, has now contributed an avidly argued, candid extended essay situated within this framework. Entitled, The Shoah after Gaza, it has recently been published in the London Review of Books
Columbia’s New Antisemitism Task Force Won’t Say What It Thinks Antisemitism Is – The Intercept
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A recent listening session hosted by Columbia Universitys new Task Force on Antisemitism devolved into chaos, with a task force leader yelling at students who questioned the groups refusal to define antisemitism, according to sources at the university. Meanwhile, the school is preparing to spend up to $135,000 to hire someone to support the task force, which was propped up just weeks after Hamass October 7 attack on Israel
Ye the Prophet? How Ye’s Anti-Semitism Foreshadowed the Post-Oct 7 World – The Milken Roar
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On October 8, 2022, Ye tweeted, Im a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up Im going to death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually cant be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jews also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda. A few hours later, my Journalism class, munching on bagels and stifling yawns, began to argue as Yes tweet was brought to our attention
UPenn faculty sues university in attempt to stop anti-Semitism documents being sent to Congress: ‘McCarthyism’ – Campus Reform
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The University of Pennsylvania Faculty for Justice in Palestine group has filed a federal lawsuit against the Ivy League institution in an attempt to stop documents from being sent to a House of Representatives committee investigating campus anti-Semitism. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the lawsuit was filed by two professors with the Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine group and alleged that the House Committee on Education and the Workforce investigation into anti-Semitism at the institution threatens academic freedom. This nation is seeing a new form of McCarthyism, in which accusations of anti-Semitism are substituted for the insinuations of Communist leanings which were the tool of oppression in the 1950s, the lawsuit states.
British government intensifies school and campus clampdown under guise of combating antisemitism – WSWS
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The Conservative governments criminalisation of opposition in Britain to Israels genocidal assault on the Palestinians in Gaza is escalating. Continuing to slander anti-Zionist views as antisemitism, Higher Education Minister Robert Halfon announced in February that an Expert Adviser on antisemitism in Higher Education will be appointed.
