Holocaust

Auschwitz really happened — and this artsy architecture exhibit proves it

An aestheticized exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale provides physical evidence that the atrocities at the death camp were real.

By Alex Ulam June 23, 2016 3:31 pm

A New Novel about American Jewish Life During the Shoah

Kim Brooks’ debut novel The Houseguest (Counterpoint Press, 2016), offers a refreshing perspective on an often overlooked facet of Holocaust: that of the American Jew. The story begins with the arson of a synagogue in Upper Manhattan during the spring of 1941, a (fictional) tragedy that highlights—and provokes—the struggles of American Jewish activists to galvanize […]

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Jerry Lewis’s Tacky Holocaust Movie Has Mysteriously Surfaced Yet Again

Fans of filmic curios and tacky Holocaust art are having a party right now on the Internet, thanks to the recent resurfacing of legendary Jewish comedian Jerry Lewis’s “buried” 1972 film The Day the Clown Cried. The film—about a gentile clown with a conscience who literally leads Jewish children to the gas chamber — was […]

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Auschwitz really happened — and this artsy architecture exhibit proves it

A New Novel about American Jewish Life During the Shoah

Jerry Lewis’s Tacky Holocaust Movie Has Mysteriously Surfaced Yet Again

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