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Uncovering my family’s hidden Holocaust stories

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a writer recalls his visits to two small towns in Poland — one of which was home to a Nazi labor camp — in an effort to learn his survivor grandparents' harrowing stories.

By Noah Lederman January 27, 2017 7:56 am

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The Online Holocaust ‘Selfie’ Art That Set the Internet Ablaze

You may have seen it: YOLOCAUST, a short-lived online gallery that transformed Holocaust-themed glamour selfies into historic scenes of horror, complete with corpses. Shahak Shapira, the Israeli artist behind the project, wanted to draw attention to the unsettling phenomenon of young people mugging for their iPhones at Auschwitz and at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial. But if you haven’t seen the […]

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If you take a selfie at a Holocaust memorial, you might be shamed on ‘Yolocaust’

Israeli-German satirist Shahak Shapira sought to highlight the trend of taking selfies at Berlin's Holocaust memorial.

January 23, 2017 12:08 pm

Pawel Sawicki

The Auschwitz museum has a Twitter account, and this ex-journalist runs it

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 6, 2017 10:49 am

Norway public broadcaster apologizes for spoofing Holocaust in satirical video

December 29, 2016 8:19 am

Siemens finances publication of former Jewish slave laborer’s memoir

December 12, 2016 7:37 am

Pre-WWII film that presaged Holocaust to be restored after crowdfunding campaign

December 12, 2016 7:21 am

90 Holocaust remembrance institutions, 70 scholars decry rise in hate speech

December 7, 2016 7:16 am

Marking the Ghosts in Poland’s Old Jewish Cemeteries

By Sarah Zarrow

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This Floating Nazi Barrack Was (Accidentally) Bombed at Sea

By Zachary Solomon

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