Sep 30 Philippines president compares himself to Hitler By Harry Zahn After arriving in Davao City, his hometown where he was once mayor, Duterte gave a rambling speech telling reporters he had been “portrayed to be a cousin of Hitler” by critics, Reuters reported. Continue reading
Jul 02 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 87 By Corinne Segal Eli Wiesel's writing illuminated the horrors of the Holocaust and explored questions of Jewish identity in the years that followed. Continue reading
May 08 Surviving the Holocaust as a ‘hidden child’ in Athens By Elisabeth Ponsot It was shortly before Passover in 1944 when 6-year-old Solomon Kofinas saw his father and sister for the last time. Continue reading
May 05 Column: How I teach about the Holocaust as living memory fades By Lauren Porosoff Lauren Porosoff, a sixth grade English teacher in New York City, discusses how teaching about the Holocaust has changed since she was a child in the 1980s. Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch 10:11 70 years on, the search continues for artwork looted by the Nazis By Phil Hirschkorn For many Jewish families whose artwork was stolen by the Nazis during World War II, the theft was compounded by murder in concentration camps. For the children and grandchildren of survivors, finding the missing art can be an international decades-long… Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch 5:20 Seeing Holocaust survivors’ stories in the books they left behind By PBS News Hour In 1942, Jews from then-Czechoslovakia were taken to the Auschwitz death camp. A window into their lives before the deportation can be found in a new book, "Last Folio," and a traveling exhibition at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in… Continue watching
Feb 12 Watch 7:06 Restoring hope by repairing violins of the Holocaust By PBS News Hour At a music shop in Israel, a violinmaker has been collecting stringed instruments once owned by inmates of Nazi concentration camps. Largely silent for seven decades, they now speak for horrors of the Holocaust as part of a project called… Continue watching
Jan 27 Obama to honor 4 who protected Jews during Holocaust By Darlene Superville, Associated Press The United Nations has designated Wednesday as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in 1945. President Barack Obama is honoring four people, including Americans from Indiana and Tennessee, for risking… Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch 6:16 Study finds trauma effects may linger in body chemistry of next generation By PBS News Hour New research on survivors of the Holocaust shows how catastrophic events can alter our body chemistry, and how these changes can transmit to the next generation. The result? Our children may suffer the effects of a traumatic event they never… Continue watching
Apr 17 Many Holocaust survivors live in poverty, study finds By Joshua Barajas As international ceremonies commemorateHolocaust Remembrance Day today, a new report revealed the sobering reality that, with little safety nets available, nearly one-third of an estimated 189,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel are poor. Continue reading