February 17, 2021 03:49:52 pm
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The crime of genocide has reemerged in global headlines since the United States accused Beijing in January of committing genocide against the Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in western China.
In the popular imagination, declarations of genocide and crimes against humanity tend to conjure images of international tribunals, military interventions, and other solutions devised by the international community to combat atrocities. But due to a combination of nuances of the laws governing genocide and other atrocities, and political realities at play among the bodies meant to punish these crimes, the reality can be more complex, leaving states with no choice but to devise their own solutions – often via economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure – when confronting suspected a
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The 25th Annual Hartford Jewish Film Festival focuses on strength and resilience
The 25th Annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival featuring 19 films – all linked to theme of strength and resilience – will open Feb. 28 and run through April 2.
“Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the 2020 film festival to a halt,” says Mandell JCC Executive Director David Jacobs. “Through the strength and resilience of our community, we were determined to carry on and curate a film festival this year to celebrate the 25th anniversary.”
Nine of the festival’s 19 films were scheduled to screen last year but had to be cancelled.
The writing of a 10-year-old girl in pre-World War II Poland is at the heart of the first interactive exhibit of an online museum dedicated to telling the.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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.
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Almost half of U.S. adults 45% and millennials 49% could not name one concentration camp or ghetto that was established in Europe during the Holocaust, the survey found.
The survey also showed how there s an overwhelming lack of personal connections to the Holocaust. Most Americans 80% had never visited a Holocaust museum and two-thirds 66% did not know, or know of, a Holocaust survivor. A significant majority of American adults believed that fewer people care about the Holocaust today than before.