Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is among the politicians who have recently compared the immigration agency ICE to the Gestapo. Such analogies risk oversimplifying history.
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Survivor testimonies hope for understanding, empathy – and change. From the Yoorrook Commission to Gaza and Israel, they build a case for justice in a shared future.
Young writers in Germany are challenging one-dimensional stereotypes about Jewish and Muslim identities.
Germany’s ‘Staatsräson’ has long held Israel’s security as its ‘reason of state.’
Framing antisemitism primarily as an imported problem risks strengthening forces that actively seek to undermine and ignore Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past.
Why have so few atrocities ever been recognised as the ‘crime of crimes’?
Even when companies do not face legal liability, public pressure can help force a reckoning with complicity in genocide, slavery and other atrocities.
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
A historian of the Mauthausen concentration camp says US troops and the Spanish antifascists they freed were united in a common fight against authoritarianism.
Several films have tackled the topic of Holocaust memory in recent years, including 2025 Oscar nominees The Brutalist and A Real Pain.
Pope Francis transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.
Its staggering forms made monuments out of ordinary places frequented by ordinary people.
The liberation of Auschwitz is being commemorated in the shadow of rising antisemitism in Australia and globally.
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to also consider the date’s political origins.
Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories. ‘We give previously faceless victims a voice,’ says project’s co-founder.
Brady Corbet’s epic is a hymn to one man’s tenacity and vision that explores the interconnected fates of the architect and his buildings.
Although concentration camp survivors followed different trajectories and displayed different levels of resilience, four main survivor profiles emerge.
A Real Pain tackles the heavy subject matter of collective trauma with curiosity and humour.
Wars always include killings and destruction, but there are limits. An expert in international law explains the rules of war laid out in the Geneva Conventions − and why they’re so hard to enforce.
Churches cannot repent for their long-standing history of anti-Judaism and antisemitism by remaining silent on Zionist ethnonationalism and the oppression of Palestinians.
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Associate Professor in Modern European History and Jewish History, UNSW
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
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Professor of Post-Soviet Cultural History and Film, Queen Mary University of London
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PhD in History, Durham University
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Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, MacEwan University
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor Emeritus in Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University
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Faculty, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College
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Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, College of Charleston
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Casual Academic, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Film Studies, Bangor University
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles