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Community. what would you say to them? >> well, i would say a few things. i mean, antisemitism, isnt a jewish problem. it is an american problem. because if you think about it for a moment, antisemitism may start with the jews, it never ends with the jews. you could think about it as a canary in the coal mine of democracy. and when you see antisemitism going up, it usually is symptomatic of societal decay. and, look in just the last two months, stephanie, we have had, you know, just last month. ...

Steinfeld knows this all too well. >> the holocaust started with words, yelling, screaming how you have to get rid of us. and on september 9th, 1942, both my parents were put to death in auschwitz. >> she was just 13 years old when she and her family were sent to a nazi concentration camp. her mother made the heart wrenching decision to let a french organization take her and her sister to safety. >> the last time i saw my mom is when she insisted that we get on that bus, and i didnt want to get ...

Calls and all of this ugly stuff on social media and my email and then the photo shops of my face in a gas chamber or my face in an auschwitz mug shot. so many of these people were making overt connections between these anti-semitic actions and speech and their support for donald trump. >> antisemitism is often actually used as a tool to silence people. >> these anti-semites -- >> orrin siegal runs the antidefamation leagues center on extremism. >> there is a troll army created and you harass so...

People have weddings on plantations, right? like, you would never go to auschwitz and be like, lets get married. like, you would never do that. but we have so made a black pain and suffering like a place of our enjoyment, a place that feels good to us, a place that feels familiar to us, that we dont pay attention to the suffering. we dont pay attention to why its problematic. >> i know you talked about the force and your presentation, but how do you define freedom for yourself? >> i have been co...

Want you here. but we still do not want you here. >> the lone black councilman pushed to remove the auction block. the six white people in the council said they voted to keep it in place to educate future generations. >> i heard you say that fredericksburg maybe the most famous city in america. >> indeed, our citys most famous. when i walk by city hall, i walk by -- i walk by the home that my mother was born in. >> you also walked by an auction block, didnt you? >> i did. >> what does that mean ...

Ten years after its founding on February 6, 2013, the far-right Alternative for Germany is today an integral part of official political life in Germany.

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<I>This article is drawn from Mr. Black's just released and updated German paperback edition. The new edition includes the discovery of hard evidence linking IBM to Auschwitz. The evidence, detailed here, will be appended to his English language editions at the next reprinting in the new future.</i><P> The infamous Auschwitz tattoo began as an IBM number.</p><p>In August 1943, a timber merchant from Bendzin, Poland, arrived at Auschwitz. He was among a group...

The daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, Élisabeth Borne has avoided bringing her past into politics, even when it might be appropriate.

Zahava Rendler was born in Poland in 1941 — after Germany had invaded the country, starting World War II.