Holocaust

French far-right National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen arrives for a news briefing at party headquarters in Nanterre, near Paris, on Thursday. The executive committee decided to expel Le Pen from the party over remarks downplaying the Holocaust.

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France's Le Pen Forced Out Of Far-Right Party He Founded

6:31pm August 20, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The longtime head of France's anti-immigration National Front was expelled at the behest of his daughter, the party's current president, following remarks he made downplaying the Holocaust.

Eva Kor points to an image of herself on the wall of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland.

'It's For You To Know That You Forgive,' Says Holocaust Survivor

6:54pm May 24, 2015

by NPR Staff

Eva Kor, who was held at Auschwitz and recently testified against former Nazi guard Oskar Groening, says that when a victim chooses to forgive, they take the power back from their tormentors.

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Author Hopes Holocaust-Themed Picture Book Will Prompt Conversations

6:27pm May 02, 2015

by NPR Staff

Jane Yolen's latest is a children's book about a family trying to survive the Holocaust in France. "I consider Stone Angel a kind of starting place for parents to talk to their kids," she says.

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Hungary Joins Poland In Condemnation Of FBI Chief's Holocaust Remarks

11:59am April 22, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

In a speech last week, James Comey had linked the two countries to the killing of Jews during the Holocaust. They have both said the killings occurred when they were occupied by the Nazis.

FBI Chief's Comments Linking Poland To Holocaust Draw Angry Response

3:13pm April 20, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

In a speech last week, James Comey appeared to suggest that Poles had been complicit in the Holocaust. Polish leaders, who have long recoiled at that assertion, demanded an apology.

Jack Mandelbaum, a Holocaust survivor from the Polish city of Gdynia, poses in front of a photograph showing him as a youth.

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A Holocaust Survivor, Spared From Gas Chamber By Twist Of Fate

12:40am February 04, 2015

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

The line on the left went to Auschwitz, but an SS guard shoved Jack Mandelbaum to the right. Thus began a three-year nightmare in seven labor camps for a Jewish teenager who refused to give up hope.

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James Snyder, director of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, with Egon Schiele's 1915 work, Krumau Town Crescent I. It's one of about 1,000 works of Nazi-confiscated art the museum has received. The museum has no record of who owned the painting before it wa

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7 Decades On, Israel Still Seeks Resolutions For 'Holocaust Art'

12:02pm January 11, 2015

by Daniel Estrin

The Nazis seized up to 600,000 works of art and much of it has never been returned to its rightful heirs, assuming there are any. Some of the art has ended up in Israel, creating complicated issues.

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Edet Belzberg's other films include the documentaries Children Underground and The Recruiter.

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The Man Who Coined 'Genocide' Spent His Life Trying To Stop It

7:40pm October 18, 2014

by NPR Staff

Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the word in 1943, as part of his lifelong campaign to make the world acknowledge and prosecute the crime. A new documentary, Watchers of the Sky, tells his story.

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