From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department, c/o Slate: This is bizarre: Benjamin Netanyahu, in a Tuesday speech, made the historically erroneous accusation that Hitler got the idea to kill…
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“One Day In Auschwitz” follows 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon’s poignant return to the former Nazi death camp where she was sent 70 years earlier, with her mother, at the age of…
OK, so if you were visiting Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi concentration camp, would you want to step into a mist shower? Apparently the management thinks you would, to “cool down,” per the…
Countries have passed laws criminalizing holocaust denial, yet groups still defend the idea. So, why do people still deny the Holocaust? h/t Reddit.
It’s likely that Anne Frank died a month earlier than believed. Stephanie Pappas via Live Science: Anne Frank, the young Jewish teenager whose diary became one of the most iconic portrayals of…
If it’s not the Bible Beaters it’s the holocaust deniers. I’m glad I’m out of school. via CA schools back off assignment asking whether Jews made up Holocaust for money. A southern…
Nearly 70 years after the liberation of the infamous Auschwitz death camp, Germany’s Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes continues its efforts to find and prosecute those who oversaw…
Abby Martin highlights the top five companies that aided Nazi Germany during the height of WWII, calling out companies such as Hugo Boss, IBM and Ford. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW…
Pure class. I wonder how the acceptance speeches went? ” . . . and most of all, without whom none of this would have been possible, I’d like to thank . ….
Reports Agence France-Presse via the Raw Story: Rudolf Brazda, last known survivor of the so-called “Pink Triangles” — gays interned in Nazi camps because of their homosexuality — died in France Wednesday…
Dina Babbitt narrowly survived Auschwitz when her art skills came to the attention of Josef Mengele, who needed watercolor portraits to accurately document the skin tone of Gypsy prisoners whom he was…
This is one hell of a typo (it occurs around the 0:50 mark). Jon Bershad writes on Mediaite:
Wow. We all make mistakes and typos. There will probably be at least one in this post alone. However, some typos are worse than others. This is one of those typos. Last week, Fox & Friends had on Elie Wiesel to talk about human rights injustices. However, eagle-eyed viewer Young Manhattanite was rewatching the clip online and noticed that they accidentally combined “Holocaust Survivor” and “Nobel Prize Winner” in the chyron so as to identify Weisel as a “Holocaust Winner.” Again, wow.
I have heard this before but looks like genetic testing is finally shedding some light on that idea. Heidi Blake writes on the Telegraph: Saliva samples taken from 39 relatives of the…
Here is another (controversial) chapter from my book 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know, published in 2003. For more on me, look at The Memory Hole. _____________________________________ The tattooed numbers on…
Sixty-five years ago, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops. Peter Lavelle asks his guests what the legacy of the Holocaust is today. Is its memory being abused? Does Israel use Holocaust as a blackmail weapon? Norman Finkelstein and Israel W. Charny discuss the issue in a heated debate.
Rob Broomby reports on BBC News: When millions would have done anything to get out, one remarkable British soldier smuggled himself into Auschwitz to witness the horror so he could tell others…