Students respond to history that feels local and personal. There are ways to do that even as Holocaust survivors pass away, one professor writes.
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Forms of ‘rescue archaeology’ are working to save the testimony of survivors before it is too late.
Our health consumes a growing share of our economy and our attention, but we are not in great shape. Even as a ruinous pandemic subsides, epidemics of chronic disease, obesity, addiction and mental illness…
The memorialisation of the Holocaust was key to the ideas and practice of the popular Australian Jewish antifascist left in the 1940s and 1950s.
The Holocaust has become a contentious issue in Poland in recent years. And those challenging the government’s historical narrative have faced condemnation and lawsuits.
Over 100 life stories of Holocaust survivors have been published through a Holocaust survivors’ memoir program. Listening to survivors narrate their stories is a powerful learning experience.
Over two days in September 1941, more than 33,000 Jews were murdered by Nazi forces and their Ukrainian collaborators in Babi Yar.
For the first time, the testimony of a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor tells the story of life and love in the camps as a young lesbian woman.
The past of the Holocaust still haunts the present and calls out to Canadian writers. Their works of poetry and prose are forms of remembrance that command our attention.
Information about the Holocaust may be easy to find online, but the best sites offer artifacts and authentic accounts from people who survived the experience, a Holocaust scholar argues.
As social media platforms fight Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, online archives offer another possible approach: direct links to the historic truth.
Up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
Memory is traumatic but also important in Holocaust remembrance. It also serves a critical role in providing lessons for the future.
Laden with 629 people, the Aquarius is heading for Spain after docking was refused in Italy and Malta. Here are four other infamous refugee boats from the 20th century.
Foundational to the work of Holocaust educators and many teachers have been the survivors. Given there are fewer survivors who are alive today, how do educators inform future generations?
Remembrance days and memorials provide people the opportunity to share stories with a community. An expert explains how that can make a difference.
Criminalising suggestions that Poland was complicit in German atrocities during World War II denies history and will hinder scholarship.
Trump’s keynote address in Davos struck a discordant note with many of those in attendance, including this one.
More than 70-years after World War II, is Auschwitz still relevant to children today?
Very little is known about suicide and suicide attempts during modern genocides – but we do know there is an aftermath of suicide among victims.
Top contributors
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Director of Shoah Foundation, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Connecticut
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Senior Lecturer / Reader in Holocaust Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Head of Academic Programmes, UCL
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Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Lecturer in the Psychosocial Analysis of Offending Behaviour, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Holocaust and History Education, UCL
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Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Health & Social Care, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Sociology, Rowan University
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Professor of Sociology, Drake University
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Adjunct lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Faculty, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College