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Taika Waititi, center, wrote and directed 'Jojo Rabbit.' Roman Griffin Davis, jumping to his right, co-stars. (Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. via JTA)
July 7, 2020, 8:44 am
Holocaust humor upends mainstream history. Scholars say it’s no laughing matter
In a collection of essays by Holocaust researchers, ‘Laughter After’ explains that humor has always been part of the Holocaust’s ‘memorial landscape’ and shows public engagement
By Matt Lebovic
The aftermath of the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 (public domain)
June 19, 2020, 3:14 pm
Using blood libel tactics, white mob massacred 300 blacks in 1921 Tulsa ‘pogrom’
In two days of slaughter, a racist offensive including police and air bombers destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma’s all-black Greenwood district. None of the perpetrators ever faced justice
By Matt Lebovic
Polish physician Eugene Lazowski and Nazi poster about Jews as typhus carriers (public domain)
June 17, 2020, 4:37 am
How a faked typhus outbreak spared 8,000 Poles from the Nazis
Eugene Lazowski is called a ‘Polish Schindler’ for rescuing 12 villages through medical subterfuge, but his ‘quarantine zone’ was declared too late for most of the region’s Jews
By Matt Lebovic
Evan Rosenberg with his grandmother (courtesy)
June 9, 2020, 11:45 pm
Start-up nonprofit feeds over 1,500 Holocaust survivors locked down in NY
Evan Rosenberg’s ‘333.charity’ deploys celebrities and branded ‘merch’ to raise funds for UJA-Federation of New York to distribute to elderly living under the poverty line
By Matt Lebovic
Most of these children from the Protestant Katharinenhof institution were euthanized at Sonnenstein (public domain)
May 9, 2020, 12:15 pm
80 years ago, lethal Nazi T4 center began euthanizing Germans with disabilities
After implementing tens of thousands ‘merciful deaths,’ Hartheim Castle’s crematoria personnel were sent to build Holocaust death camps in occupied Poland
By Matt Lebovic
Ashton Gleckman (courtesy)
May 2, 2020, 4:05 am
Millions watch teen high school dropout’s film on US Holocaust survivors
After interviewing two-dozen survivors, 19-year-old Ashton Gleckman from Indiana created his film ‘We Shall Not Die Now’ — with an assist from Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’
By Matt Lebovic
Benjamin Levin several years ago and as a member of the 'Avengers' partisan group during World War II (Chaim Levin and public domain)
April 20, 2020, 2:30 pm
‘Avenger’ Benjamin Levin, ‘Forrest Gump of Jewish history,’ succumbs to COVID-19
From killing Nazis in Lithuanian forests to jumping from flaming Altalena off Tel Aviv, young hero of Jewish Vilna participated in more than his share of Jewry’s turning points
By Matt Lebovic
Prewar photo taken outside Penguin House at Amsterdam Zoo. Pictured are Leo and Bertie Serphos and their friend, Rene Schap. Bertie and Rene later perished in the Holocaust. (USHMM)
April 20, 2020, 3:50 am
Dutch province seeks ‘smuggled’ Jewish children rescued by residents in WWII
Rural Friesland hopes to welcome back children saved by farmers, priests, and university students in an underground railroad that rescued them from Nazi deportation in Amsterdam
By Matt Lebovic
Ceremonial burning of last hut at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, 1945 (public domain)
April 17, 2020, 6:34 am
75 years ago this week, ‘typhus fever’ met its match at Bergen-Belsen
In ‘All the Horrors of War,’ a survivor’s daughter describes how H. L. Glyn Hughes, first Allied Medical Officer to enter Nazi ‘horror camp,’ strived to save lives after liberation
By Matt Lebovic
Revere Beach, Massachusetts, not far from the COVID-19 outbreak at the Jack Satter House, April 1, 2020 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
April 3, 2020, 8:56 pm
When the deadly virus hit a Jewish care facility on shore of 1st US public beach
In Massachusetts, a Hebrew SeniorLife independent living facility grapples with ‘gut-wrenching’ loss of six residents to COVID-19 outbreak
By Matt Lebovic
'Anne Frank Video Diary' scene with Luna Cruz Perez as the diarist (Anne Frank House/Ray van der Bas)
April 1, 2020, 1:14 am
In time for global self-isolation, ‘Anne Frank Video Diary’ premieres on YouTube
Targeted at adolescents in five languages, online series features iconic diarist using a video-camera to narrate a life spent hiding from the Nazis
By Matt Lebovic
Margot Frank (right) with her Amsterdam rowing team in 1941; photo altered to spotlight Margot (photo: Roos van Gelder, courtesy of The Anne Frank House)
February 15, 2020, 6:42 am
No wallflower: Margot Frank comes out of her sister’s shadow in new photos
Besides being her younger sister Anne’s well-behaved foil, Margot was academically and athletically gifted — and she too kept a diary
By Matt Lebovic
Taken from a perimeter guard tower in 1943, part of the Nazi death camp Sobibor is seen, including the buildings of the officers' camp and 'Camp I' for Jewish prisoners (USHMM Sobibor Perpetrator Collection)
February 3, 2020, 9:55 am
Sobibor photo album remaps Nazi death camp famous for 1943 prisoner revolt
‘It’s hard to overstate the importance of this collection,’ says historian, as new images from Nazi SS officer’s personal album clarify findings of archeological excavations
By Matt Lebovic
Woodcut depicting 'Simon of Trent' alleged ritual murder, 1475 (public domain)
February 2, 2020, 4:18 am
Myth of Jews killing Christian children persists, says new book on blood libel
‘Blood Libel: On The Trail of an Antisemitic Myth’ by historian Magda Teter examines lethal canard from its roots in monastic tales to the pages of German Nazi broadsheets
By Matt Lebovic
Famous photograph of services at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam on May 9, 1945, with Holocaust survivors in attendance (public domain)
January 19, 2020, 4:43 am
How a volunteer Jewish fire brigade saved the Dutch Portuguese Synagogue in WWII
16-year-old with chutzpah convinced Nazis not to use Amsterdam’s Esnoga as a collection point for deportation as his comrades helped rescue building from plunder — and a bomb plot
By Matt Lebovic
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