This is the grave of Raul Hilberg. Born in Vienna in 1926, Hilberg grew up in the Jewish elite of that city. His family had moved there from Poland and spoke Polish. His father was World War I hero. Raul was not a social kid....
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Those currently claiming to "protect" the memory of camp survivors conveniently forget those survivors who fought to ensure all concentration camps would be properly identified. Emma Kuby, an expert on.
This should chill anyone who supports American ethnic cleansing and leans on being a "legal" immigrant as the requirement to get into the country, no matter what threats they face.
Last Friday, Poland’s lower house passed a bill (months in the making) that would make it a criminal offense—punishable by a prison sentence—to implicate Poles in the crimes of the Holocaust. The law takes specific aim at the use of phrases like “Polish death camps”...
I've done a little (ok maybe not so little) vlogcast with Aryeh Cohen Wade over at Culturally Determined on Bloggingheads.tv based on my earlier post about When Its Okay To.
The difference between "good" Nazi humor and bad is about who gets to be the butt of the joke. "There can be no poetry after Auschwitz," said Theodor Adorno. One.
Clay Higgins represents a district in Louisiana. He seems like a nice man: A US congressman has been criticised by officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum after he posted a video on the internet taken inside a former Nazi death camp gas chamber. Clay...
"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric..." Theodor W. Adorno (1) An image is worth a.
It’s a good week for anti-Semitism in Europe. Monday morning, the Hungarian President signed a law that essentially bans Central European University from operating (as part of the ruling party’s.
Attempts to connect our current situation with the 1930s are coming out pretty regularly (and more will follow). But when two leading historians of fascism speak up, it's worth listening. Timothy Snyder sat down with Süddeutsche Zeitung last week, while Richard Evans weighed in with...
In 1938, a couple of Jewish Americans went on vacation to Poland, where one of them was from. They made films of their trip. Some of them survived. Thanks to.
And now I know the answer thanks to Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican congressman representing Maryland's 6th District: "Not that it’s not a good idea to give students loans; it certainly.