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Holocaust

black and white: a thin older man in white papal robes gazes out a window
Posted inFilm

Documentary questions WWII-era pope’s ‘Holy Silence’

by Dan Pine October 21, 2020
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in the Capitol, Jan. 20, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Bill Clark-CQ Roll Call-Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

Don’t call them ‘concentration camps’; Closer look at Props. 15-17; RBG’s legacy; best bagels in the Bay

by J. Readers October 15, 2020October 15, 2020
“There were stacks and stacks, in perfect condition, torn hastily out of their frames and hidden,” photographer Amos Chapple said.
Posted inCulture

Hidden for decades, hundreds of Holocaust-era paintings need a new home 

by Toby Axelrod and JTA October 12, 2020October 12, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg at the Breakthrough Prize awards ceremony at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Nov. 3, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Josh Edelson-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Facebook will now ban Holocaust denial, in a major shift

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA October 12, 2020October 22, 2020
A sign in front of Zoom headquarters in San Jose during a protest demanding that the company not host an upcoming event featuring Leila Khaled. (Photo/Facebook-Shield of David)
Posted inLetters

S.F. State should be ashamed; Holocaust education essential; Trump thinks he’s Churchill; etc.

by J. Readers October 2, 2020October 7, 2020
Jewish men gather in a communal sukkah in a displaced person's camp in Amberg, Germany, October 1947.
 (Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum-Courtesy of Abraham Malach)
Posted inHolidays

75 years ago, my parents and other Holocaust survivors celebrated Sukkot on their own terms

Menachem Z. Rosensaft by Menachem Z. Rosensaft and JTA October 1, 2020October 1, 2020
Mordechai and Sheindle Sova were shot in 1941 on a central street of Kyiv, Ukraine and buried in a ditch after they ignored the order to gather to be murdered at Babyn Yar. (Photo/Courtesy Igor Kulakov and Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center)
Posted inWorld

Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 25, 2020September 25, 2020
A Kristallnacht event held by the Helen and Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust in Catholic Schools at Mercy High School in San Francisco, Nov. 2018. (Photo/Adrian Schrek)
Posted inEducation

A recent survey found young adults ignorant about the Holocaust — or did it?

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 22, 2020September 30, 2020
Clockwise, from top left: Daniel Gros, a Jewish attorney in Vienna advising Jews on how to apply for Austrian citizenship; and Elana Dunn-Rennert, Paul Burg and Caroline Wellbery, who are all applying. (JTA/Courtesy Gros, Dunn-Rennert, Burg and Wellbery)
Posted inWorld

‘This will completely change Jewish life in Austria’: Thousands of Jews around the world expected to apply for Austrian citizenship through new rules

by Toby Axelrod and JTA September 1, 2020September 1, 2020
Mirjam Wenzel is the director of the new Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, Aug. 25, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inWorld

Frankfurt Jewish museum’s $58 million extension reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots in the city

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 26, 2020August 26, 2020

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