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Holocaust
April 6, 2023
Magazine
Adam Kirsch
The Battle Over Bruno Schulz’s Final Works
The Polish Jewish writer was forced to decorate the home of his Nazi captor with fairytale murals. Where does the art belong?
November 28, 2022
Tori Otten
Don Lemon Grills Jewish Trump-Era Official on Nick Fuentes Dinner: Do You Condemn Trump?
Len Khodorkovsky, who served as Donald Trump’s deputy assistant secretary of state and said he is the descendant of Holocaust survivors, got mad at Lemon’s line of questioning.
October 28, 2022
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Peter Stone
Meet the Congressman Who Is Viktor Orbán’s Biggest Fanboy
Maryland’s Andy Harris loves the Hungarian strongman. Maybe what his father did during WWII helps explain some things.
September 16, 2022
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Michael Tomasky
“We Did Know”: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on
The U.S. and the Holocaust
The new documentary, which debuts Sunday on PBS, digs deep into what FDR and the American public did—and did not do—to stop the genocide.
Video is available for this article
May 19, 2021
Magazine
Lidija Haas
A Holocaust Documentary Interviews the Perpetrators
Luke Holland’s film “Final Account” makes a study of evasion, denial, and self-justification among living participants in Hitler’s Third Reich.
October 31, 2019
Critical Mass
Heather Souvaine Horn
Facing Up to the Past, German-Style
What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust?
September 4, 2019
Magazine
Daniel Bessner
The Fog of Intervention
Samantha Power did not set out to justify war.
June 27, 2019
Magazine
Roy Scranton
How John Hersey Bore Witness
The author of
Hiroshima
showed the world the realities of American power.
July 5, 2018
Jeet Heer
Israeli historian accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of whitewashing Polish complicity in the Holocaust.
June 27, 2018
Jacob Bacharach
Don’t Count on History to Judge Wisely
The Supreme Court's rulings on Tuesday aren't certain to be condemned by future generations.
April 3, 2018
Magazine
Yascha Mounk
Verboten
Germany’s risky law for stopping hate speech on Facebook and Twitter
April 13, 2017
Brian Beutler
Anti-Defamation League offers White House remedial Holocaust lessons.
April 11, 2017
Brian Beutler
Sean Spicer Is the Perfectly Awful Spokesman That Donald Trump Deserves
The president often says stupid, impulsive, indefensible things. Why shouldn't his press secretary do the same?
April 11, 2017
Graham Vyse
Sean Spicer’s rolling Holocaust gaffe is the mother of all Holocaust gaffes.
April 3, 2017
Jacob Soll
The Revelatory Horror of
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Director Niki Caro has made the first feminist Holocaust movie.
March 13, 2017
Magazine
Jeet Heer
Horrible Histories
The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.
January 27, 2017
Graham Vyse
Why doesn’t Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement mention Jews?
June 7, 2016
Malcolm Forbes
How to Prosecute a War Criminal
Philippe Sands's new book is both a family memoir and a gripping courtroom drama.
April 5, 2016
Daniel Solomon
The Many Trials of a Nazi War Criminal
Concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk was tried for a crime he didn't commit, before his true role in the Holocaust was exposed.
March 31, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
RIP, Imre Kertész.
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