Remembering Holocaust Hero Marion Pritchard

  TRANSCRIPT AILSA CHANG, HOST: We take time now to remember Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard who died this month at the age of 96. During the second world war in her native Holland, she helped more than 150 Jews evade the Nazis. Her son Ivor Pritchard told us how she

The road from perdition: former neo-Nazis find a way out

After years of believing conspiracy theories that explained the perceived injustice they saw around them, as well as their own loneliness, past neo-Nazis are finding the support they need to change their lives and leave their hatred in the past. Felix Benneckenstein was a rising star on Germany’s far-right scene,

Holocaust Survivors Score Victory in Reclaiming Stolen Art

A group of Holocaust survivors and their families notched a crucial victory on Friday, as Congress approved legislation that would make it easier to reclaim art confiscated during World War II. The unanimous vote — which came during a late-night session as the Senate worked to pass a spending bill

Insiders at Google are ‘disturbed’ by its Holocaust search results, and now they’re doing something about it

Google engineers and executives are disturbed by how its algorithm promotes offensive and fake content on the web — such as a Holocaust denial site reaching the top result for certain searches about the Holocaust — and they are doing something about it, search expert and editor of Search Engine

Holocaust Scholar: International community must stop Syria atrocities

Shalev was speaking at the opening of the International Institute for Holocaust Research’s conference titled “The Jewish Refugee Problem During the Shoah (1933-1945) Reconsidered.” World leaders and the global community must implement in Syria the principles they enacted after World War II, the chairman of Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, Avner

Holocaust deniers able to rise to top of Google search results

Stormfront has the dubious distinction, via the Southern Poverty Law Center, of being “the first major hate site on the Internet.” That online longevity has also helped it earn the top spot in Google’s search results when users type “Did the Holocaust happen” into the search field, but it’s Google’s

How Hitler won Germans over with his ‘scientific religion’

The Nazis conducted experiments on her mother and nailed her father’s tongue to a wall. And yet, Israeli lecturer Tamar Ketko still managed to be shocked by what she found in Nazi textbooks she discovered in a Zurich library cellar. Talking to: Dr. Tamar Ketko, lecturer in philosophy of history

Warsaw museum to offer high-tech posthumous talks with Poles who saved Jews

Polish and Israeli officials announced the future opening of an innovative museum honoring non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. The museum, which will feature interactive 3D videos of saviors of Jews, is slated to open in 2018 in the center of Warsaw under the auspices

Alumni Reflection: Julia Ellis “I Traveled All The Way To Poland To March For Those Who No Longer Can—And It Changed My Life Forever”, 2016

I went on March of the Living to make sure that not one victim of the Holocaust died in vain; I promise I will never forget. by Julia Ellis I don’t even know how to begin talking about this trip, but I’m going to try my best to do it justice.

Marking the Ghosts in Poland’s Old Jewish Cemeteries

How do you alert people to an absence? Across Poland, different communities come together to clean up and restore Jewish cemeteries. But in some places, those cemeteries have been not just neglected, but replaced — with sites ranging from stadiums to parking lots to playgrounds. That’s where Katarzyna Kopecka, Piotr