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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

genocide studies

Illustrative: German high school students from the Reclam gymnasium Leipzig read excerpts of the bilingual book 'Der Brief/La Lettre' detailing the results of their research into the life of Holocaust victim Martin Kober at a book launch ceremony in Leipzig's town hall, November 27, 2012. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)
August 19, 2024, 1:30 am
‘Gestapo Game’ at Tim Walz’s school was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject
Amid reports that the VP candidate helped end an outdated role playing game while a teacher in Minnesota, one thing is certain – he condemned such exercises in his master’s thesis
By Andrew Lapin and PHILISSA CRAMER
People display a Romani flag to commemorate the Roma and Sinti people killed by Nazi Germany in World War II, during ceremonies, in Oswiecim, Poland, August 2, 2019. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
August 2, 2024, 1:54 am
Decades after Holocaust, Romani community struggles for recognition of its genocide
While Nazi murder of the Jews in the Shoah is widely commemorated, relatively few countries mark the Aug. 2 memorial day of Samudaripen. Activists are working to change that
By Ronen Shnidman
Raz Segal discusses his Jewish Currents article in which he stated Israel intends to commit genocide in Gaza, October 25, 2023. (NJ Spotlight News/PBS screenshot via JTA)
June 11, 2024, 11:26 pm
U of Minnesota backtracks on Holocaust studies hire who accused Israel of genocide
University pauses selection process after initially defending hiring of Raz Siegel, who made accusation days after October 7, as director of Center for Holocaust and Genocide
By Andrew Lapin
Menachem Rosensaft delivering the keynote address at the commemoration marking the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, July 2023. (Courtesy)
January 9, 2024, 1:31 am
As Israel faces charges at The Hague, a Cornell expert in genocide weighs in
A child of Holocaust survivors, law prof Menachem Rosensaft has made his life’s work the study of genocide. He finds the allegation against the Jewish state both ironic and bigoted
By Cathryn J. Prince
Ohio Republican state Rep. Sarah Fowler Arthur, left, discusses her education bill with news reporter Morgan Trau, right, March 2022. (Screenshot/ via JTA)
March 29, 2022, 1:45 am
Ohio lawmaker says Holocaust studies can be taught from German soldier’s perspective
Amid the ongoing US debate on teaching critical race theory in public schools, Sarah Fowler Arthur defends teaching from ‘multiple points of view,’ misstates number of Jews killed
By Andrew Lapin
Holocaust survivor and former prisoner of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Johnny (Ephroim) Jablon, left, crosses the gate with the inscription reading "Work sets you free" (Arbeit macht frei) in Oswiecim on January 26, 2020, one day before the 75th anniversary of its liberation. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
March 28, 2021, 10:01 am
Genocide education urged after US high school’s anti-Semitic football play calls
Massachusetts lawmakers renew calls for compulsory genocide studies after team used terms such as ‘Auschwitz,’ ‘rabbi’ and ‘dreidel’ to signal game tactics
By Steve LeBlanc
Gugulethu Moyo is the new executive director of the Tucson Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center. (Illustration by Grace Yagel/ JTA)
February 9, 2021, 2:11 am
New leader of Tucson’s Holocaust museum is a genocide survivor herself
Gugulethu Moyo went from Zimbabwe, where she fled the murder of her Ndebele people as a child, to the UK for a law degree, to Washington, DC, where she formally became Jewish
By Phyllis Braun
A boy playing soccer at the entrance to the former concentration camp known as the Seventh Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, on July 12, 2016. (JTA/Cnaan Liphshiz)
April 3, 2019, 4:44 pm
Lithuania’s genocide studies center accused of Holocaust denial
Local Jews say state-run body tasked with memorializing Holocaust is attempting to absolve country of substantial complicity in the mass murder of Jews during WWII
By JTA
Jordanna Gessler
July 18, 2018, 2:00 am
Jordanna Gessler
Why we need a definition of ‘genocide’
If the Holocaust is the prototype, then we miss the lessons of all other genocides, including how to prevent them
Gina Ross
April 13, 2018, 3:17 pm
Gina Ross
More than a meme against genocide
Practical steps to ensure that no community will ever again be targeted for elimination while the world stands by
Maziar Bahari, December 4, 2017. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
March 12, 2018, 1:29 am
Tortured Iranian expat makes documentaries to educate Muslims about Holocaust
Maziar Bahari’s home country imprisoned him for his education initiatives, but he continues to preach against genocide — including at Monday’s speech at the USHMM
By Cathryn J. Prince
Father Patrick Desbois speaks after being awarded the Lantos Human Rights Prize on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 26, 2017. (Chris Kleponis)
October 27, 2017, 2:17 am
French priest who uncovered Nazi killing sites awarded Lantos rights prize
Accepting honor named for Holocaust survivor congressman, Father Patrick Desbois warns against standing idle as atrocities are carried out
By Eric Cortellessa
Illustrative: Jews from Hungary arriving at Auschwitz in May of 1944, part of 'The Auschwitz Album' series of photographs. Most of these Jews were murdered later that day. (public domain)
July 10, 2017, 3:16 am
How these teachers learned to teach the Holocaust
A seminar in New York gives participants the pedagogical tools to communicate the scope of one of history’s worst humanitarian crimes
By Ben Sales
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