Los Angeles Times

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POWAY, Calif. - The rabbi wounded in the shooting at the Poway synagogue Saturday said the bloodshed could have been much worse had the gunman's weapon not jammed. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, speaking in an emotionally charged news conference Sunday in

Total Film

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★★★★☆ OUT NOW CINEMAS Late filmmaker Luke Holland’s lifelong campaign reaches its final mission in a posthumous doc that challenges both the viewer and its controversial subjects. Over the course of a decade the director, whose mother’s family perish

Amateur Photographer

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I first discovered the work of UK-based photographer Marc Wilson when his first book The Last Stand was released in 2014. The extraordinarily beautiful and melancholic landscapes in The Last Stand documented the remnants of the Second World War on th

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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Amid the confusing chaos and searing carnage of war, twists of fate often seem to be the main determinant of who lives and who dies. For those who survive, luck may certainly play an outsize role. But wily resourcefulness can be equally crucial. In t

History of War

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An SS officer and qualified doctor, Mengele was the chief camp physician of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) from 1943. He became notorious for conducting genetic research on human subjects with no regard for their welfare or safety. He experimented on twins

NPR

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This sweetly funny tale of a recently widowed Orthodox Jew struggling to care for his son offers a humane and sympathetic view of life in a Hasidic enclave.

New Zealand Listener

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New Zealand inadvertently allowed Nazis to migrate here aft er the war, but it excluded Jews and coloured people on purpose. Officials and politicians believed that Jews and people of colour would not “fit in”. New Zealand chose about 4500 immigrants

NPR

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NPR's Scott Simon tackles the painful legacy of the Nazi party and the enduring symbols of hatred used throughout history's atrocities against humanity, recently on display in Charlottesville.

TIME

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WHEN 21 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS across the U.S. received bomb threats on Feb. 27, the JCC staff in Rockville, Md., knew what to do: notify the authorities and confirm the evacuation routes. The group’s national office had immediately alerted all its

History of War

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Author: Leah Garrett Publisher: Chatto & Windus Price: £20 Among the most chilling images of Nazi wartime atrocities are those of the lines of Jewish captives awaiting execution by roadside ditches, usually dug by the condemned prisoners themselves.

Amateur Photographer

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THE HOLOCAUST Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) has announced the winners of its second photographic competition to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) – the theme for the HMD 2022 contest was ‘One Day’ and was open to entrants aged 14-25, who were asked to se

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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King George VI (in front, wearing uniform) tours Southampton to inspect areas of the city that sustained heavy damage during a Luftwaffe raid five days earlier. TODAY: Terrified families are evacuated as police confiscate a live incendiary bomb that

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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The Nazis are coming. That, to a distressing extent, is the crux of the argument being mounted by some of those who refuse to obey vaccine mandates. On Sunday, a group of them even showed up at the Bronx office of New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey D

Finweek - English

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barely a week into 2020 and it’s very difficult to feel optimistic about the new year – let alone the next decade ahead. And it’s not just South Africa that isn’t off to a great start. As fires rage in Australia (let’s not forget the devastation in t

Who Do You Think You Are?

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Millions of records of Holocaust victims are now available to search for free on the family history website ancestry.com. Ancestry has recently completed its digitisation of records from the Arolsen Archives, adding nine million records made in the

The Guardian

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As the world prepares to mark the anniversary, a former British soldier and a prisoner he freed recall the Nazi concentration camp

The Atlantic

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The White House aide, under fire for alleged links to a right-wing Hungarian group, was a hit at the Jerusalem Post conference—and he’s had outside help.

The Guardian

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The most worrying increase in antisemitism, Cas Mudde writes, is in terms of incidents which have exploded in the US since Trump’s election

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES — First it was Hanukkah, now Passover. On Saturday morning, some residents in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles woke up to find yet another antisemitic flier on their front door. The fliers, which appear connected to similar fliers that were

Literary Hub

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The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper economic, political, and technological consequenc

Manhattan Institute

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In France, curiously enough, anti-clericalism seems to have long outlived its enemy, clericalism. The Catholic Church has not been a political force, even a social one, for a long time. In the mouths of the enlightened, the appellation catho (Catholi

Who Do You Think You Are?

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The number of titles in the St Lambrecht collection of historic books, looted by the Nazis, that the Government will donate to the Wiener Holocaust Library in London (tinyurl.com/ govlambrecht) ■

Film Comment

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Director: Robert Schwentke Country/Distributor: Germany/Poland/Portugal/France, Music Box Films Opening: July 27 The Second World War is winding down and rural Germany is lousy with deserters, among them Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), a baby-faced priv

All About History

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Author Colin Rushton Publisher Summersdale Publishers Price £8.99 Released Out now When soldier Arthur Dodd returned to England following VE Day on 8 May 1945, he was carrying a heavy burden that extended beyond the hardships of serving in World Wa

Literary Hub

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The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper economic, political, and technological consequenc

NPR

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A man stabbed people celebrating Hanukkah at the home of a rabbi in a suburb of New York City Saturday night. The attack comes amid a surge of anti-Semitic violence in the region.

Who Do You Think You Are?

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w jgsgb.org.uk The society was founded in 1992 and has all sorts of useful material for both beginners and experienced researchers. w jhn.ngo Find out more about a wealth of online Jewish digital heritage projects. w joodsmonument.nl/en/page/571160

Who Do You Think You Are?

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BARBARA YOUNG lives in Lancashire, and has read every issue of WDYTYA? Magazine since its launch in 2007 When I was a child, my grandfather used to tell me Polish fairy tales about the Baba Yaga, who was a witch who lived in the forest,” says Barbar

Family Tree

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The Israel Genealogy Research Association has reached a milestone 2 million records available online. The collections include material from more than 60 archives and libraries around the world. Core to the collections are Israeli r

Who Do You Think You Are?

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Willesden Jewish Cemetery in London opened its new heritage experience to the public on 7 September. Following a five-year project, £1.7 million in funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and support from volunteers, the United Synagogue, wh