Yad Vashem has also created a sub section of its website featuring online exhibitions, educational resources and the unique “IRemember Wall.” Against …
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Observing Holocaust Remembrance Day Online, Just 3 Weeks After the Capitol Riot
Today marks 76 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. In stark contrast to the 75th anniversary, where crowds gathered in pre-pandemic ceremonies, observances of International Holocaust Remembrance Day occurred online this year, as well as through vaccine drives organized for hundreds of survivors. The commemorations come just three weeks after the Capitol attack, where rioters were seen brandishing Nazi and anti-Semitic symbols.
As the pandemic has forced the cancellation of most large gatherings, many institutions including the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum in Poland, Yad Vashem museum in Israel and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC are marking Holocaust Remembrance Day this year with online events
Among the most shocking images from the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill were pictures of a man wearing a sweatshirt that said “Camp Auschwitz” and “work brings freedom.” It’s an anti-Semitic reference to the Nazi concentration camp and extermination center where over 1 million Jewish people …
(Reuters) - As the 76th anniversary on Wednesday of the liberation of Auschwitz draws closer, Bill Harvey, who survived the concentration camp, said …
Holocaust denial content remains on Facebook three months after pledging to ban all content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust.” That's according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League, which gave Facebook a “D” for its efforts. The ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said the report …
Pope Francis in an address Wednesday as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day urged his followers to continue battling the forces of political extremism, …
White supremacists are building international networks to spread their violent ideology. Efforts at transatlantic counterterrorism cooperation hit an …
For some survivors of the Holocaust, the vow of "never forget" takes on a special meaning when they have only faded memories, or none at all, of parents they lost as young children. Emily Wither reports.
Holocaust survivor Bill Harvey felt triggered by the recent insurgence on the U.S. Capitol because it reminded him of how misinformation and propaganda created the uprising of Nazis before the war.
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