admin | June 27, 2024
It was Julia von Heinzs mother who first gave her Too Many Men by Lily Brett, a book that left an indelible mark on the German director who has a personal connection to the Holocaust.
admin | June 27, 2024
Published in partnership with the World Jewish Congress, the UNESCO report explains that as learners increasingly use Generative AI to complete assignments and find information online, they risk exposure to distorted information about the Holocaust, which has found new ways to spread through AI-generated content.With four in five (80%) of young people between the ages of 10 and 24 now using AI several times a day for education, entertainment and other purposes, action to ethically guide these new technologies must be taken quickly. Generative AI must be trained using vast amounts of data
admin | June 27, 2024
In their debut graphic memoir, Heavyweight (William Morrow, June), cartoonist Solomon J. Brager mines family history to draw lines between the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples by German colonial forces in South West Africa in the early 1900s and the Holocaust. A historian and educator, Brager spoke with PW about their hopes for using memory and narrative to create a more inclusive cultureone with ample humor and creativity
admin | June 27, 2024
Amsterdams Stedelijk Museumsaid on Tuesday that it will return a Henri Matisse painting from the 1920s to the heirs of its former Jewish owner, who was forced to sell the artwork in the Netherlands during the Holocaust before being deported to a Nazi camp where he eventually died. The painting Odalisque has been in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, which is owned by the Municipality of Amsterdam, since July 1941. The painting was sold to the museum by the late Albert Stern, a successful textile manufacturer and art collector in Germany who was born in 1861
admin | June 27, 2024
The holocaust stands as one of the most tragic and shameful events in human history. A new report from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization warns that generative AI could be used to spread false claims and denialism about these atrocities.
admin | June 27, 2024
[MUSIC PLAYING] CATHY WURZER: In about 20 minutes from now, a state Senate committee will hold a hearing at the Capitol on what they call a pattern of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incidents at the University of Minnesota since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war as well as the administration's handling of these incidents. Included is accounts from Jewish students and community members about what they feel is an anti-Jewish atmosphere on campus. Also up for discussion, the university's decision to rescind an offer to Israeli historian Ros Segal to lead the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
admin | June 27, 2024
When Lily Nahmias was liberated from Ravensbrck concentration camp in 1945, she weighed only 44 pounds. Five years earlier, the Greek Jew from Thessaloniki was working in the Resistance movement in Belgium with her parents. (The family emigrated there in 1930.) But in 1944, she was caught by the Nazis and deported to Auschwitz.
admin | June 27, 2024
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal of a controversy between Hungary and Holocaust survivors over Hungarys confiscation of their property during World War II. This will be the second time the US Supreme Court is hearing this case. Republic of Hungary v.
admin | June 27, 2024
(June 25, 2024 / JNS) A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor and Berlin native is the face of Vogue magazine in Germany. Margot Friedlnder, one of the oldest and most prominent Holocaust survivors in the world, graces the cover of the July-August edition of the fashion and beauty magazine which has hit the newsstands in Europe. Respect for life and the responsibility of being human are the core messages of #MargotFriedlnder, the magazine wrote on X promoting the story.
admin | June 27, 2024
Considered the Father of the Indian Nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi(1869 1948), akaBapu(a Gujarati endearment for father), was a lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist whose use of nonviolent resistance led the successful campaign for Indian independence from British rule and inspired worldwide movements for civil rights and freedom. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability and, above all, achieving self-rule.
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