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International News Apr 8, 2021 BERLIN (AP) — Alarmed by a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors are taking to social media to share their experiences of how hate speech paved the way for mass murder. With short video messages recounting their stories, participants in the #ItStartedWithWords campaign hope to educate people about how the Nazis embarked on an insidi...

Record Store Day 2021: The Full List of Releases Unveiled Share April 8, 2021 Record Store Day has officially revealed the full list of releases for its 2021 edition. Due to the pandemic, the event will be divided into two ‘RSD Drops’, which will be taking place on June 12 and July 17. Over 250 record stores in the UK and thousands around the world will be participating in RSD 2021. Notable highlights from the 538 exclusive records on offer include: Lady Gaga’s  Chromatica on exclusive y...

04-08-2021 A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945 in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo/CAF pap, file) BERLIN (AP) — Alarmed by a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors are taking to social media to share their experience of how hate speech paved the way for mass murder. With short video messages rec...

Holocaust survivors use social media to fight anti-Semitism DAVID RISING, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014 file photo, the Yellow Star badge of Heinz-Joachim Aris (Dresden 1941) reading Jew is displayed in a showcase during a press preview in the new special exhibition Shoes of the Dead - Dresden and the Shoah at the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany. Before local anti-Jewish laws were enacted, before neighborhood shops a...

Share it Two major tall building projects have benefited from robotic-style technology in recent months to speed construction time and keep employees safe while working at height. The project team for the 50 Hudson Yards in New York City relied on an Italian-made machine that hydraulically "climbs" up the side of a building to provide structure and walkways for workers as they construct the buildings steel frame. Once several floors worth of steel is in place, the Despe Self-Climbing Kokoon re...

46 shares Uri Shulevitz, author of Chance: Escape From the Holocaust, and cover art. (Photo of Shulevitz courtesy of Paula Brown/ book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Serendipity played no small part in helping Uri Shulevitz survive the Holocaust as a child. Nearly 76 years later, Shulevitz — now an acclaimed author and illustrator of children’s books — is contemplating the role that fate played in preserving his life in his new memoir for kids, “Chance: Escape From the ...

Holocaust Survivors Use #ItStartedWithWords Campaign to Fight Anti-Semitism There has been a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic along with studies indicating that younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide By David Rising • Ronald Zak/AP Alarmed by a rise in online anti-Semitism during the pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors are taking to socia...

Time to really talk about the Holocaust Time to really talk about the Holocaust The silence of the Holocaust is the silence of death and we cannot bear to hear it. So we covered over it with a new people, a new state, a new culture, a new language and with tales of heroism. (April 8, 2021 / JNS) I dream of a time when Holocaust Remembrance Day will see us think and talk about the Holocaust. Because for decades, we have been talking about the heroism associated with it, which is something I can ...

ANTHONY ESOLEN The sergeant stood before the young soldier in the cold rain. Join the worldwide Magnificat family by subscribing now: Your prayer life will never be the same! Father Jerzy Popiełuszko Some men shuffled about them.  Most were smirking.  A few hung their heads. "Beads are for girls," said the sergeant, "or worse.  Thats what you are, isnt it?" The soldier shut his eyes and did not reply. "Look here," said the sergeant, with mocking friendliness.  He flung t...

To read it in full, click here to subscribe and login.  Following 63 days of brutal street fighting, Polish rebels finally surrendered to Nazi forces on 2 October 1944. Two months earlier, wary of an advancing Red Army, the rebels had begun an insurrection against Hitler’s occupiers in what was later to become known as the Warsaw Uprising. Desperate to avoid a pro-communist regime, the Poles had hoped to gain control of the city before the Soviet arrival – but they were outnumbered and ou...