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Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Author Sarah Hurwitz appears on a panel at the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, alongside, from left, Eric Fingerhut, JFNA’s president and CEO; Israeli author Micah Goodman, and Richard Marceau of Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Washington, DC, November 16, 2025. (Courtesy JFNA via JTA)
November 28, 2025, 1:36 am
Former Obama aide Sarah Hurwitz ignites social media with remarks about Holocaust education
Progressives, human rights advocates and pro-Palestinian activists slam the author’s comments on how some portrayals of the genocide can also cause young people to vilify Israel
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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Amid reports that the VP candidate helped end an outdated role playing game while a teacher in Minnesota, one thing is certain – he condemned such exercises in his master’s thesis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
Elon Musk, carrying his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders, speaks with Rabbi Menachem Margolin at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland on January 22, 2024. (Yoav Dudkevitch)
January 26, 2024, 7:12 pm
Could social media have stopped the Holocaust? Scholars doubt Elon Musk’s theory
Visiting the Auschwitz death camp, the billionaire said the genocide could have been mitigated if only his platform X had been around 80 years ago. Academics beg to differ
By Shira Li Bartov
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By Galit Diamant
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)
June 26, 2022, 3:38 pm
Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition
While visiting the POLIN museum in 2016, Daniel Patt realized he could be walking by his own relatives without knowing it, so he designed a platform ‘From Numbers to Names’
By Yaakov Schwartz
An Israeli airstrike on a terror target in the Gaza Strip, May 16, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90 via JTA)
May 25, 2021, 7:57 am
Hundreds of Dutch academics sign call to cut ties with Israel over Gaza fighting
564 people put their names to letter urging their government to boycott Israeli academic institutions; one signatory works at state Holocaust research institute
By JTA and ToI Staff
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