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'Genocide' by Madeline Dittman, a submission to TOLI's online art exhibit (courtesy)
September 22, 2020, 4:39 am
As Holocaust awareness declines in US, youth make art to preserve fading history
NY’s Olga Lengyel Institute reacts to disturbing new research about lack of once common Holocaust facts, highlighting its new ‘How High School Students See the Holocaust’ exhibit
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Youths take part in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/March of the Living)
September 8, 2020, 4:38 pm
In face of ongoing pandemic, New England March of the Living holds online event
Unable to converge at Auschwitz-Birkenau this spring, New England ‘March’ organizers persist in spreading ‘Never Again’ message in tribute September 9
By Matt Lebovic
Adolf Hitler and Nazi party members before World War II (public domain)
August 22, 2020, 10:09 am
The Fuhrer’s latest biographer: Hitler was ‘blithely underestimated’
Those who compare him to Donald Trump ‘dangerously downplay just how horrific Hitler was,’ says German historian Volker Ullrich
By Matt Lebovic
Vigil for Black Lives Matter movement held during Tisha B’Av by Jewish groups in Brookline, Massachusetts, July 30, 2020 (Emily Glick/Boston)
July 31, 2020, 9:09 am
With shofars and fasting, Boston Jews use Tisha B’av to commemorate Black grief
Jewish groups gather to mourn with Black Lives Matter movement activists, uniting around ‘radical opportunity’ for change
By Matt Lebovic
The COVID-19 memorial installed at Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts, July 12, 2020 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
July 14, 2020, 4:17 pm
Boston Jews inaugurate COVID-19 memorial to help cope with ‘insurmountable loss’
Community used recent Jewish fast day to mourn COVID-19 victims and dedicate a memorial garden at historic complex of 42 cemeteries
By Matt Lebovic
The Royall House in Medford, Massachusetts, June 25, 2020 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
July 10, 2020, 11:01 pm
Preserved former slave house in Boston keeps Harvard and Tufts’ racist past real
New England’s elite universities are facing a fresh wave of scrutiny for their colonial ties to slavery and promotion of ‘scientific racism’
By Matt Lebovic
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
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