I'm not a big fan of counterfactual history, but sometimes it has a bit of value as a project to consider how some slight changes here and there might have had a gargantuan impact on world history. Molly Crabapple has a new book out on...
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This is the grave of Raul Hilberg. Born in Vienna in 1926, Hilberg grew up in the Jewish elite of that city. His family had moved there from Poland and.
Those currently claiming to "protect" the memory of camp survivors conveniently forget those survivors who fought to ensure all concentration camps would be properly identified. Emma Kuby, an expert on.
This should chill anyone who supports American ethnic cleansing and leans on being a "legal" immigrant as the requirement to get into the country, no matter what threats they face back home. Research suggests the family of Anne Frank, the world famous Jewish diarist who...
Last Friday, Poland’s lower house passed a bill (months in the making) that would make it a criminal offense—punishable by a prison sentence—to implicate Poles in the crimes of the.
I've done a little (ok maybe not so little) vlogcast with Aryeh Cohen Wade over at Culturally Determined on Bloggingheads.tv based on my earlier post about When Its Okay To.
The difference between "good" Nazi humor and bad is about who gets to be the butt of the joke. "There can be no poetry after Auschwitz," said Theodor Adorno. One can only imagine what he might of said about laughter. Black humor, dark humor, gallows...
Clay Higgins represents a district in Louisiana. He seems like a nice man: A US congressman has been criticised by officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum after he posted.
"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric..." Theodor W. Adorno (1) An image is worth a.
It’s a good week for anti-Semitism in Europe. Monday morning, the Hungarian President signed a law that essentially bans Central European University from operating (as part of the ruling party’s obsessive anti-Soros campaign). But, ever a trend setter, Marine Le Pen made the spectacular statement...
Attempts to connect our current situation with the 1930s are coming out pretty regularly (and more will follow). But when two leading historians of fascism speak up, it's worth listening..
In 1938, a couple of Jewish Americans went on vacation to Poland, where one of them was from. They made films of their trip. Some of them survived. Thanks to.