Shoah (Jewish holocaust)

Chiune Sugihara is hardly a household name. A partnership of Holocaust educators in Milwaukee wants to change that. A staged reading of a play, “Chiune Sugihara: Unsung Hero of the Holocaust,” will be presented at Cardinal Stritch University on Wednesday, March 21, thanks to the efforts of Shay Pilnik ...

The Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival will screen a special director's cut of Adam Benzine's 2015 documentary, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah. It took French journalist, philosopher, and filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, 12 years to make his Holocaust documentary, Shoah which was ...

A member of Congress argued against gun control last week by arguing that Jews died in the Holocaust because they were unarmed. Rep. Don Young, a Republican who has represented the entire state of Alaska in Congress since 1973, made his comments at a town hall in Juneau on Thursday.

... ** FILE ** In this April 19, 1943 file photo, a group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers. AP Photo. The term 'Polocaust' suggests an analogy with the Holocaust, which is likely to raise eyebrows in Israel. Polish Deputy Culture Minister Jaroslaw Sellin ...

Israel and Poland trading barbs over the Second World War this weekend after the Polish prime minister said Jewish individuals were among the perpetrators of the Holocaust—a comment that immediately prompted outrage from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The conflict stems from a recent ...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki sparked a storm of criticism Saturday after defending his country's new law concerning the Holocaust, which he said had involved "Jewish perpetrators" as well as Polish. The controversial law passed by Poland's senate this month sets fines or a maximum ...

USC Shoah Foundation has received one of the largest collections of testimonies from survivors of the Armenian Genocide that were recorded over decades by Dr. Richard Hovannisian, a leading scholar on the Armenian Genocide. The Richard G. Hovannisian Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection ...

The photographs of the Syrian victims are remarkably similar to those of Jewish Holocaust victims in the death camps: Bodies lying in long rows. Alongside the photos are detailed explanations, illustrations and maps, describing the development of the Syrian civil war. These days, Omari lives in Sweden ...

Recent letters in The Bee about gun ownership showed unfamiliarity with how Jews fought back during the Holocaust. There was actually resistance in 100 ghettos in Poland. Best remembered was the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 by heroic Jews with Molotov cocktails and small arms.