Holocaust

From the Archive: Suriname’s Jewish settlement and non-settlement

In 1948, Suriname — then a Dutch colony in South America — backed out of a plan to settle 30,000 European Jewish displaced persons.

By Raffi Wineburg September 19, 2014 4:43 pm

At Canada’s new human rights museum, should the Holocaust get special treatment?

The Shoah has its own gallery, while other genocides are clustered together, angering many who say the $351 million museum downplays lesser-studied atrocities.

September 18, 2014 2:10 pm

When Donald Duck Was Captured by Nazis

Poor Donald Duck. He was just trying to get some shut-eye when a marching band featuring some of our favorite Axis leaders—Goebbels, Himmler, Mussolini—prods him out of bed with a bayonet at four in the morning. So begins Der Fuehrer’s Face, a surrealist 1942 American propaganda film created by Walt Disney in an effort to sell war […]

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