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Leaders from journalism, public policy, media, and culture gather on January 27, 2021, for PaleyIMPACT: The Medias Role in Combating Holocaust Denial, Misinformation, and Antisemitism, moderated by Paula Zahn, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to discuss the media's vital role in fighting the rise of antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Maureen Reidy, Paley Center President and CEO, offers opening comments. Panel topics include: Eva Schloss's recollections of how friends and neighbors in her native Austria turned on her family in 1938, resulting in her being transported to Auschwitz; Schloss's thoughts on the emotional toll taken on her stepfather, Otto Frank (father of Anne Frank), when confronting Holocaust deniers after World War II's end; how social media allows hate groups to flourish; Facebook's recent ban on those who distort the history of the Holocaust; the necessity of continually magnifying Holocaust survivors' stories; the media's lack of coverage over a Camp Auschwitz shirt worn by one of the rioters that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6; and the need for mandatory Holocaust education for all American students.

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Since the Abraham Accords were first announced with the United Arab Emirates last year, Israel has been enjoying somewhat of a honeymoon period with multiple Arab states. The ramifications of this are tremendous and span nearly every facet of society from political to business to tourism to person-to-person relations. In contrast with the peace Israel has with Jordan and Egypt, the newly developed peace with Sudan, Morocco, Bahrain, and UAE is proving to be popular on the ground, which is providing an opportunity to educate about antisemitism and to find common ground in the battle against all forms of bigotry. Holocaust denial and revisionism is a problem that continues to plague the Arab world, in particular on social media. Videos in Arabic denying the Holocaust garner hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, even though many are removed after. While Holocaust denial has (only recently in some cases) been banned from virtually every social media platform, the problem is ongoing, and it's even more extreme in Arabic. References praising Hitler are commonplace on Twitter and in comment sections, in particular where there is content about Israelis and Palestinians.Rhetoric that would never be tolerated in the West, or at best would be condemned and dismissed as fringe and antisemitic, is sometimes lumped in with mainstream opinion in Arabic discourse. Even major networks such as Al Jazeera, while denouncing the Holocaust in English, have published content fueling Holocaust revisionism in Arabic. Similarly, world leaders who call into question the accuracy of the Holocaust are not publicly disgraced for such radicalism, but embraced. For example, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, wrote his thesis on questioning the Holocaust. While social media networks have failed spectacularly to rein in this trend for years, someone else has stepped up to begin changing the narrative: the brave leaders who implemented the Abraham Accords.Not only did Bahrain, Morocco, and the UAE sign on to the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations with the Jewish state, Bahrain also explicitly signed a memorandum of understanding about educating against antisemitism, and recognizing the IHRA definition of antisemitism. The unique and widely accepted IHRA definition recognizes that modern antisemitism is often manifested as anti-Zionism. In January, Morocco also signed a similar MOU pledging to combat all forms of antisemitism today. Two weeks ago, Morocco additionally announced they would incorporate Jewish history and education in their school system, signing a similar MOU. Immediately following the signing of the Abraham Accords, the UAE began implementing educational materials in schools, praising the peace treaty.This is how future generations are changed and taught to support peace.THE RESULTS are already showing. On International Holocaust Memorial Day this past January 27, we saw an inspiring example of such action. Despite yet another coronavirus lockdown in Israel, Israeli organization Israel-is, and the Arab Israeli NGO Together Vouch for Each Other made history by putting together a Holocaust Memorial event on Zoom for the first time in Arabic, which included participants from Morocco, Bahrain, UAE and Israel. The event, hosted by Israeli-Arab activist Yoseph Haddad, featured remarks from Natan Sharansky, Israeli Ambassador to the UAE Eitan Naeh, and testimony from the daughter of a Holocaust survivor for the very first time in Arabic. Also in attendance were high-profile figures such as IDF spokesman in Arabic Avichay Adraee, YouTuber Hananya Naftali, and Consul General in Dubai, Ilan Stolman. Participants shared their knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust, and were visibly moved by the testimony in an event that would have been almost unimaginable prior to the Abraham Accords. Who would have thought that such figures, not just peace activists but mainstream Israeli leaders, would be taking part in a joint Israeli Emirati Holocaust Memorial Event in Arabic in 2021?

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The past year will forever be marred by the global pandemic that spread around the world, locking us in our homes, forcing us to hide our faces behind masks, and tragically taking hundreds of thousands of lives. However, while the arrival of numerous vaccines provided a shard of light in the seemingly unending darkness of last year, the ramifications of the pandemic will continue to be felt for years to come.

Alongside the more obvious effects of the global pandemic, such as economic turmoil and unemployment, is the as yet unclear long-term effect of the dramatic increase in numbers of people engaging with conspiracy theory content online. How many of us have a friend or family member who has gone down the rabbit hole in the past year?

Whether it is conspiracy theories about Covid-19 being a hoax, 5G being dangerous or the rise of QAnon in the UK, a worrying number of people have come to support conspiracy theories over the past year. One of the most concerning elements of this is that amidst this online world of fake news, misinformation and conspiracy theories is the pernicious lie of Holocaust denial.

It is tempting to dismiss conspiracy theories as amusing or strange. Those that push them have often seen as harmless eccentrics who gather in dingy pubs and frequent peculiar corners of the internet. In truth, though, conspiracy theories are the lifeblood of hateful extremism. They provide an evil enemy that can be blamed for world events and personal misfortune.

The reasons behind the rise of conspiracy theories are complex, but such theories do provide a simplified and monocausal framework for interpreting unpredictable and bewildering events taking place across the world. It is no surprise, then, that belief in conspiracies tends to spike in popularity during turbulent times; times like right now.

One of the major concerns about more people engaging with conspiracy theories is that all too often, if you scratch the surface of a conspiracy theory, you quickly find antisemitism. Belief in a conspiracy theory requires belief in a conspirator and all too often it is Jews that have, for centuries, faced the blame.

For some, the belief that a secret cabal of Jews secretly run the world creates an insurmountable contradiction. How could a supposedly all-powerful people have let the Holocaust happen? For die-hard antisemitic conspiracy theorists, the answer is that they didnt and the Holocaust is a lie.

In the past year, my team at the anti-fascist organisation HOPE not hate has monitored antisemites and Holocaust deniers spreading their lies on social media, who specifically target people who believe in other, less obviously pernicious conspiracy theories. We have watched in real-time some of those who started as anti-lockdown or anti-5G activists become radicalised towards antisemitism, Holocaust denial and even adopt veneration of Hitler.

Traditionally, the route to becoming a Holocaust denier was through more moderate forms of antisemitism and far-right politics. The recent explosion of conspiracy theories opens up an alternative route to denial through other conspiracy theories, some of which are antisemitic but some of which are not. This all begs the question of whether the rise in conspiracy theories during the pandemic has created a fast-track towards Holocaust denial?

In the face of this challenge, remembering the truth of the Holocaust remains as important as ever. Some things are true. Some things happened. When it comes to the Holocaust, there is no room for alternative facts or manufactured theories. The Holocaust happened and we have to remember that.

It is for this reason that Holocaust Memorial Day continues to be so important, as a day in which people come together in these difficult times and unite against prejudice. To do that this year the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is asking us to light a candle and safely place it in your window at 8pm on 27 January. To remember those who were murdered for who they were. To stand against hatred and division today.

Joe Mulhall is senior researcher for Hope not hate.

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Jan 28, 2021 Vladimir Munk traveled back to Auschwitz for the first time last year since he was a prisoner there during the Holocaust. The concentration camp is where more than a million people, mostly Jews, were murdered during World War II.

Munk is 95 years old. He lives in a retirement community in Plattsburgh and says he's looking forward to when he can go outside every day and see his friends and family. He's scheduled to be vaccinated against COVID in April.

Munk lives in a retirement community in Plattsburgh. He says he only started telling his Holocaust survival story after he retired. Photo: Emily Russell

EMILY RUSSELL: The last time that we talked you were about to fly to Auschwitz to mark the anniversary of the camp's liberation. Can you tell me what that was like being back there?

VLADIMIR MUNK: It was a sense of relief for me, that I finally decided to go to the place where so many of my relatives perished. It closed, to a certain point, it closed a chapter for me.

RUSSELL: You're turning 96 soon Is that right?

MUNK: I hope so [laughs].

RUSSELL: How have you gotten through the last year or so what has that been like for you yet?

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RUSSELL: Are there things you're planning or looking forward to when we're no longer in lockdown?

MUNK: Yes, I like to go out every day for a short walk. I like to go with my friends to the dining room or something, sit somewhere among the people without being worried that I get the virus

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LAFAYETTE, La. An Air Force veteran says what he experienced in Nazi Germany is something that no child should ever go through.

In November of 1938, Nazi Germans destroyed thousands of Jewish stores, places of worship and homes, including Manny Kleppers.

They just demolished everything in our place and at our neighbor's place... said Klepper. I mean everything was demolished.

Shortly after the massive destruction, they were rounded up to watch the cold-blooded execution of five people, including three people he personally knew.

And we all had to watch, there must have been 100 or 150 people, said Klepper. It was a horrible thing for an eight year old to see.

During his time in Nazi Germany, he was taken care of by a Catholic young woman. Her name was Anna and she took care of Kleppers family, bringing them food and taking him to church.

After a long journey to the United States, making stops in a couple of Asian countries, he says he felt a sigh of relief once seeing an emblematic American symbol.

It was a wonderful experience to go underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, said Klepper. When we saw that, we knew we were in a country that loved us.

In order to keep his memory alive, his grandson Joshua decided to write a book, telling the story of his grandfather in Germany and how he got to where he is today.

Joshua wanted to sell it on Amazon to spread awareness, but Klepper wasnt a fan of the idea. Eventually, he decided to give Joshua permission to sell the book on the site.

I said, Okay Joshua, if this what you want, I will go along with you, said Klepper.

On a day meant to remember and teach about the Holocaust, Klepper says he has one goal.

I only hope that what I went through, nobody in this country has to go through this again, said Klepper.

You can purchase the book narrating Kleppers story here. All royalties from the book will benefit Temple Shalom in Downtown Lafayette.

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Manhattan Colleges Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith (HGI) Education Center is co-sponsoring a virtual event to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, January 27 at 6 p.m. The event will also commemorate the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp.

The event will feature Michael Brovner, chief of the Queens County District Attorney's Hate Crimes Bureau and Mark Weitzman, Director of Government Affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Register here for the virtual event held on Zoom.

The Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration is the first of six events the HGI Center will host during the 2021 spring semester. Here are the others:

Tuesday, February 2, 7 p.m.The HGI Center will hold a college-wide interdisciplinary teach-in: Lessons of White Nationalism, Racism, and Government. The event is in conjunction with the Black Student Union, Jewish Student Union, Just Peace, Muslim Students Association and the Government and Politics Club.

Leading the teach-in will be college chaplain Rev. Thomas Franks, OFM Cap., Jeff Horn, Ph.D., professor of history, Courtney Bryant, Ph.D., assistant professor of religious studies and Jonathan Keller, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science.

At Manhattan College, we seek dialogue and the critical exchange of ideas as we engage with one another equally and dream of a better future. At a time when the United States faces a reckoning, the HGI Center is offering an interdisciplinary teach-in to provide students an opportunity to reflect on our core values of civic responsibility, racial justice and moral integrity.

Submit questions for the Q&A here. Please join us on Tuesday, Feb. 2 on Google Meet.

Thursday, March 11, 7 p.m.Bjrn Krondorfer, Ph.D., director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University and endowed professor of religious studies in the department of Comparative Cultural Studies, will discuss his new book, Unsettling Empathy: Working with Groups in Conflict, with Mehnaz Afridi, Ph.D., director of Manhattan Colleges HGI Center.

Krondorfers field of expertise is religion, gender and culture, and (post-) Holocaust and reconciliation studies. His scholarship helped to define the field of Critical Mens Studies in Religions. In 2007-08, he was guest professor at the Institute of Theology and the History of Religion at the Freie University Berlin, Germany, and he held the status of visiting Faculty Affiliate at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Thursday, March 25, 7 p.m.The HGI Center presents: Claudia Setzer, Ph.D., professor of religious studies, and Eric Ward, executive director of Western States Center, A Conversation: White Nationalism, Anti Semitism, and Racism.

Ward is the executive director of Western States Center, and a nationally recognized expert on the relationship between authoritarian movements, hate violence, and preserving inclusive democracy. In his 30+ year civil rights career, he has worked with community groups, government and business leaders, human rights advocates, and philanthropy as an organizer, director, program officer, consultant, and board member.

Thursday, April 1, 7 p.m.Hussein Rashid, Ph.D., will deliver a talk titled Opening the Quran: Exploring Muslim Devotional Life.

The first seven lines of the Quran, known as al-Fatiha, are possibly the most frequently recited verses of the Quran. This talk explores the importance of these lines in the lives of Muslims, incorporating calligraphy, theology, music, and theology. Rashid is a freelance academic, currently affiliated with several universities in New York City. He is also the founder of islamicate, L3C, a consultancy focusing on religious literacy and cultural competency.

Thursday, April 8, 7 p.m.Joanie Holzer Schirm, will present My Dear Boy on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust RemembranceDay.

Holzer Schirm is the past president and CEO of Geotechnical and Environmental Consultants Inc., the engineering company she co-founded in 1991. At the heart of her book series, including My Dear Boy, which was named a finalist in a Book of the Year contest, is a collection of World War II letters, documents, and objects that serve as witnesses to history. Known as the Holzer Collection for which Joanie serves as an archivist, the secret treasure trove preserved by her father, Dr. Oswald Holzer, tells a refugee story with powerful relevance for today.

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On this Wednesday, Jan. 27, episode of Sundial:

Floridas Vaccine Rollout Woes

The COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Florida has been anything but smooth.

Those currently eligible for vaccines include healthcare workers, long-term care facility residents and staff, and people 65 and older.

But a new residency requirement has created obstacles for those who might need the vaccine the most.

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Many people who are homeless, who don't carry papers around with them, or immigrants who don't have a Florida ID but are nonetheless residing permanently in Dade County, are going to be very badly affected by this," said JoNel Newman, a professor of clinical legal education at the University of Miami.

And Floridians who should be the first in line for a vaccine right now are struggling to schedule an appointment, while doses are running out. A new Facebook page created by a South Florida couple is helping those struggling to get an appointment. They include translators for Spanish, Creole and Portuguese.

Sundial spoke with WLRN health care reporter Veronica Zaragovia about these vaccine rollout issues. We also heard from Steve Ullmann, a professor and the director of the Center for Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami.

You can find more information on how to make a vaccine appointment here.

Floridas Vaccine Rollout Woes

Remembering The Holocaust

Anita Karl's mother made a decision that would save her life and the lives of her three daughters. They escaped from a ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland and lived as Catholics for the remainder of the war.

"We admired [my mother] and we cherished her. We knew she gave us life twice," Karl said. "She is a heroine of our people. Maybe a silent heroine, but yet she is the heroine of our people. She saved three lives from the Holocaust."

Karl is one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust living in Miami. She shares her story whenever she can, as she believes it is important for younger generations to be aware of the atrocities that occurred during World War II.

She shared her story with us in the WLRN studio back in 2018 and stayed afterward for an extended conversation on Facebook Live.

We revisit that conversation on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Remembering The Holocaust

Why The Obsession With Orchids?

Sundial is reading The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean as January's Sundial Book Club title.

The book follows John Laroche, an eccentric plant collector who travels around the Everglades seeking the rarest forms of orchids on the planet. His obsession leads him to be consistently at odds with law enforcement and the judicial system, as some rare orchids are federally protected.

That never seemed to stop him, even after he was arrested.

Oh my gosh, he was so intelligent, said Susan Edgar Lee, a retired science teacher and Sundial Book Club member. She added how Laroches idea to go around the law and clone an orchid, which led to what are now known as grocery-store orchids.

If were talking about Florida men ... I think that he would be kind of hard to date, said Pilar Uribe, a former WLRN host and book club member. He would be a great dinner party guest. I dont know what he would be like to live with though.

Sundial also heard from orchid experts about the lengths that people will go to satisfy their obsession with the beautiful flowers.

I had an orchid stolen this past January right from in front of my house it was on a hanging basket in the tree and it was 11:30 p.m., said Lucy Matos Lodato, who leads the Flamingo Gardens' Orchidteers volunteer group. I saw this woman step onto my property and I thought she was just going to grab a flower and the next morning the orchid was gone. I was traumatized, I really was.

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) Theres an old saying, Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

January 27 is designated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day where many are reminded of one of the darkest periods of the 20th century.

Rabbi Guy Greene of Congregation Beth Shalom stated its important to study the Holocaust so that we dont repeat it in the future.

RABBI Its important to remember the Holocaust because it teaches us lessons. It was the most horrific genocide in our modern times with 11 million people perishing during the Holocaust, said Guy Greene, rabbi at Congregation Beth Shalom.

Rabbi Greene went on to explain what happens during a traditional service for this day.

RABBI Six candles are traditionally lit and there are various descriptions of survivors; actually, survivors may speak, there are not that many survivors right now, but the various descriptions of victims and the retelling of that story, said Rabbi Greene.

Due to COVID-19, no in-person services will be held in Congregation Beth Shalom Wednesday night.

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It has been 76 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

ODESSA, Texas This week is Holocaust Remembrance Week. It marks 76 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

On January 27, it will be the official International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day will remember the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during World War II.

"I think it's a worthy thing to keep learning and then doing to prevent such a horror from happening again," says Rabbi Jordan Parr of Temple Beth El in Odessa. "We can all start by watching our language and just the way we talk to each other both in public and the way we talk about each other in private."

Later in the week, survivors will gather at Auschwitz, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were selected for death. They were put into gas chambers and then burned.

"If we watch our language and are careful, I think we'll come out better human beings and less of the chances of this happening again," Parr says.

The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of around 6 million Jews and 11 million others.

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On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Elly Gotz draws a parallel between the lockups of his past and the lockdowns currently in effect in the City of Toronto and elsewhere in Canada to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

We are locked up like birds in the cage. What can we do? reflected Gotz, a survivor of the Holocaust. But, you know, its not as bad as some of the lockups Ive experienced in my past.

My wife and I, we are happy together, luckily. So its not too tough, he said, adding, The groceries arrive at the door and we are OK. So compared to other lockups in my past, they are wonderful.

Without skipping a beat, Gotz turns back the clock to describe in vivid detail his time in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.

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He was 16.

I was locked up in the ghetto for three long years, he recalled. And at the end of three years, the Germans were losing the war, the Russian army was very close to our door, and we were afraid how this transfer will take place. Only 8,000 of us were alive out of 30,000 Jews of the Kovno ghetto.

Gotz and his family hid in an underground storage space, but eventually surrendered.

It was a terrible journey in the railway car 200 people, packed in the railway car, no food, no water, no facilities. It was a terrible trip and then we arrived in Dachau.

Dachau was a Nazi concentration camp in Germany.

We used to get one bowl of soup vegetable soup, parsnip soup and a slice of bread, one slice of bread a day. In the morning, we got black water called coffee, he said.

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Gotz is used to telling his story. He speaks to groups of students every year. This year, despite the pandemic, Gotz is sharing his message.

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I am now with Zoom. Im speaking to thousands of students and I tell them my history. And I beg them not to hate, to give up hate because hate damages people, he said.

Gotz wants people to know that while the restrictions in place to stop the spread of COVID-19 may be isolating, we will get through that.

Unfortunately, we are losing a lot of people and we have to be careful, he said, adding, If we dont listen, we will fail.

The pandemic can be traumatizing for holocaust survivors, reminding them of a time when they were restricted over where they could go and what they could do.

Yet Dara Solomon, executive director of the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, said it is especially difficult because they are so dedicated to Holocaust education.

At the core of our work at the Neuberger, its always been about teaching through survivor testimony and so they are so personally committed to it, Solomon said. It hasnt gotten easier for them. When they do tell their stories it is hard, but its something that they believe that they really need to do. And in their final years, they of course feel that urgency even more.

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Solomon pointed out anti-Semitism is on the rise in Canada, so hearing from people like Elly Gotz is critical.

She said there is an increase in online hate of all kinds, and also specifically anti-Semitism with COVID-19 being blamed on Jews.

And just given the civil unrest south of the border and this whole rise of distrust of historical evidence of all kinds, we really, really need to ensure that the voices of the survivors and this real evidence of the horrors and tragedies of the Holocaust are continued to be shared now and in the future, she said.

For Gotz, being an eye witness to the atrocities of the Holocaust means being the person tasked with ensuring it does not happen again.

Now anti-Semitism is raising its head again, but its not only us hatred of Muslims, hatred of people who come from other countries. Canada is not completely free from disliking and prejudice against people who come to our country. I speak to thousands of students because I want to convince them to give up that kind of hatred, never fall subject to it.

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