In the early years of internet discussion, a wise fellow named Mike Godwin coined “Godwin’s Law” which stated:
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving
Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
I have seen the inevitability of such hyperbolic comparisons on every kind of discussion forum whether about cars, kittens or politics. This occurs in political discussion outside of the internet as well as we see with recent foolishness from Conservative MP Larry...Read Full Story
Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available."When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision...Read Full Story
Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him: "I bless you. You'll survive this horror. You'll become a great pianist, and I'll be very proud of you." Born in 1917 into a musical Jewish family in Warsaw, Filar began playing the piano when he was four. He performed his first public concert at the age of six. At twelve he played with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and went on to study with the great Polish pianist...Read Full Story
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*The Atlanta Journal-Constitution spoke to Jewish leaders who are highly offended and speaking out against a ceremony held Sunday at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in which Bishop Eddie Long was wrapped in a sacred Torah scroll and carried upon a throne.
“He’s a king. God has blessed him,” said Rabbi Ralph Messer before covering Long in a scroll “[that] may still have the dust of Auschwitz and Birkenau.” Messer referred to the Nazi extermination camps in Poland where millions of Jews...Read Full Story
Jim Sanders, a Modestan who helped liberate the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp after World War II, and Ephraim Hadjis, a Greek Holocaust survivor, moved the 300-plus people Thursday afternoon at Vintage Faire Mall's center court.
To learn more about Holocaust education, go to http://flholocausteducationtaskforce.org or www.holocaustresources.org. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ashira Morris is a sophomore journalism major at the University of Florida, where she is a staff writer for ...
A doll that was found among the rubble of a German concentration camp in 1945 has been restored in the hope it will go on public display. It was found at Bergen-Belsen by Major Margaret Jump, from Southport, Merseyside, a nurse in Queen Alexandra's Royal ...
On Jan. 12, Seven Hills School students in eighth-grade history met and talked with two Holocaust survivors, siblings Clara and Emery Herz, and learned of their ordeal at the Auschwitz concentration camp when they were 14 and 15 years old ...
The weather in Paris today reflected the mood in UNESCO's conference room -- gloomy with a chance of sunshine. For just as the clouds were heavy, so too was the discussion of Holocaust education and how genocide and hatred still exist despite ...
Leigh TodayEwing marks holocaust memorial day in parliamentStrathearn HeraldLOCAL MSP Annabelle Ewing spoke in a debate in the Scottish Parliament to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. She said: “The 25th of January is the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and I welcome the fact that we took the opportunity in ...Memorial tree plantedLeigh TodayMP remembers the HolocaustDroitwich Standardall 3 news articles »
In the spring of 1944, the Western world was awakening to the horrors of the Holocaust as authenticated eyewitness reports of the Auschwitz extermination camp were circulated. Raoul Wallenberg decided to lead the mission to try to save the Jews of Hungary ...
It was once said that not remembering the Holocaust means to side with the executioners against its victims; not to remember means to kill the victims a second time; not to remember means to become an accomplice of the enemy. On the other hand, to remember means to feel compassion for the victims of all persecutions.
By solemnly...more
It was once said that not remembering the Holocaust means to side with the executioners against its victims; not to remember means to kill the victims a second time; not to remember means to become an accomplice of the enemy. On the other hand, to remember means to feel compassion for the victims of all persecutions.
By solemnly commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust, we will keep history in mind, never forget the past, cherish all lives, and create a better future.