What exactly is the historical event commonly called 'The Holocaust'? When reading the enormous historiography on 'The Holocaust' one becomes aware that the term is used in various meanings and that important aspects of the event itself are ignored. This essay discusses several issues: first, ...
New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora tech, hands-on experiential museum that focuses on two central themes through unique interactive exhibits: the dynamics of racism and prejudice in America and the history of the Holocaust—the ultimate example of man's inhumanity to man......
And while the actual details of the “Dirty War” are not the story that propels this book, this decade of political terror is its subject; it is everywhere within it, a dark, swirling, omnipresence— an inescapable madness— that gives the novel a profound, unshakeable human resonance. Our...
Many of us are familiar with the word “bystander,” but less are familiar with the term “upstander.” The mission of theHolocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio(HMMSA) is to change this unawareness in South Texas. We have Holocaust education resources to help families answer the question, ...
You don’t get to sit on the fence, when history taught us what looking the other way, can create. The holocaust happened because people turned a blind eye when it was not going to affect them. Power hungry megalomaniacs are never happy with one victory, and are always looking to conque...
lucky. I finally found the nerve to drive through the gates, only to find several people already there, who obviously belonged there, and knew I didn’t. Not having a Long Island accent, and Indiana plates on the car, I plead stupidity and asked if they knew where ...
(in order to make it as easy as possible to find particular sections a reader may be looking for), it does not cover even all of the subjects that are addressed in this 600-plus page book; and it does not do justice to the depth and specificity into which each section of this book...
A page from neo-Nazi site Stormfront was the third result, with additional explanations of why Jews are evil appearing as the fifth, sixth, seventh, and tenth results. When she did a search for “did the holo . . .” Google autocompleted her query to “did the Holocaust happen?”...
series started with the end of the Holocaust and the plight of postwar Jewry and continued with Israel’s war of independence. Each year, in about 16 lectures, Rabbi Katz covers several years. Many of these lectures are available online. This year, he is covering the years 2000 through ...
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. —Martin Luther King, Jr. ...