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Whenever there’s an analysis or discussion about how much people know about the Holocaust, the focus is often on what they don’t know. For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and older found that 11% of U.S. adults and 22% of millennials had not heard of – or were not sure if they had heard of – the Holocaust. Almost half of U.S. adults – 45% – and millennials – 49% – could not name one concentration camp or ghetto that was established in...

Art Industry News: Princess Diana’s Statue Will Be Unveiled at Kensington Palace in a Project Guided by Her Feuding Sons + Other Stories Plus, activists say the new plan to save Venices lagoon doesnt go far enough, and a previously unknown Thomas Gainsborough is identified. April 6, 2021 Lady Diana Spencer, the future Princess of Wales, June 1st, 1981. (Photo by John Shelley Collection/Avalon/Getty Images) Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out o...

On Wednesday, March 24, United States Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine announced that $2,390,400 in federal funding from the United States Department of Agriculture for infrastructure improvements in specific areas. The funds were provided by the Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program, which is designed to provide affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. Grant funds provided through the program may be used to “purchase, construct, and/or impr...

Lukashenko wants to deal with foreign NGOs MINSK, 6 April (BelTA) – It is necessary to come to grips with the activities of foreign foundations, NGOs and similar organizations financed from abroad, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the meeting to discuss foreign policy on 6 April, BelTA has learned. “Today I would like to hear concrete proposals for returning to a consistent, proactive policy with Poland. We are not going to fight with anyone, we do not want to fight with anyon...

Israel to mark Wednesday Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Day will be observed in Israel on Wednesday evening, 7 April 2021 through Thursday, 8 April. The official state opening ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day will take place on Wednesday  at 20:00, in Warsaw Ghetto Square, Yad Vashem, on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will both deliver rem...

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Biden urges Americans to remember Holocaust on eve of Israels remembrance day In a statement released by White House, U.S. president says he took his children and grandchildren to Dachau to impress upon them the need to stand up to anti-Semitism, religious hatred, racism and homophobia i24NEWS, Ynet | Published: 04.05.21 , 15:30 U.S. President Joe Biden announced a week of “Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust” from April 4 to 11, calling on Americans to “pause to remember...

Is there a place in sociology for online panels and why “poll” was needed before the All-Belarusian people’s Assembly On February 24, 2021, Belarus in Focus weekly analytical monitoring, in partnership with the Press Club, the “Our Opinion” expert community of Belarus and the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS), held an international online meeting to discuss the role of sociology in understanding what is happening in Belarus. The main speakers were sociologists and rese...

Manillas are a historic form of money, made of European bronze and copper. Large quantities were produced for the Slave Trade (photo: iStock) In December 1970, the West German chancellor, Willy Brandt, visited the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland. The memorial honors Jewish resistance to Nazi occupiers in 1943, a revolt that took place after the Third Reich started deporting Jewish people in droves to death camps the year before. The Nazis brutally suppressed the uprising, killin...

A report funded by the German government published in January, with input from environmental groups in Germany, Poland, Spain and France, has recommended the creation of a new coordinated rail network in Europe, booked via a single website, to counter the recent domination of no-frills airlines that has witnessed 149 of Europe’s 365 cross-border rail links put out of action. A mere 8% of all passenger travel within the EU, the report found, is now by rail. The report further highlighted that...