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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 recounting their stories, participants in the #ItStartedWithWords campaign hope to educate people about how the Nazis embarked on an insidious campaign to dehumanize and marginalize Jews — years before death camps were established to carry out murder on an industrial scale. The plan i...

The total number of positive cases of the COVID-19 virus grew by 41 across the four-county GLOW region on Wednesday, surpassing 250. Health departments serving Genesee, Livingston, Orleans and Wyoming counties reported an additional 25 recoveries on Wednesday, but the current total of active cases continued to increase. There were 252 total active cases of the virus on Wednesday, with only Livingston County seeing a decrease in active cases. The number represents the most active cases in a single day since Feb. 26 when the total was 286. Active cases were as high as 246 on March 1 before drop...

Share this article Share this article #ItStartedWithWords. Before local anti-Jewish laws were enacted, before neighborhood shops and synagogues were destroyed, and before Jews were forced into ghettos, cattle cars, and camps, words were used to stoke the fires of hate. #ItStartedWithWords is a digital, Holocaust education campaign posting weekly videos of survivors from around the world reflecting on those moments that led up to the Holocaust – a period of time when they could not have predicted the ease with which their long-time neighbors, teachers, classmates, and colleagues would turn...

4 shares FILE - In this June 19, 1938 file picture, the word Jude (jew) is smeared to the windows of a shop in Berlin run by Jews. (AP Photo, 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 recounting their stories, participants in the #ItStartedWithWords campaign hope to educate people about how the Naz...

DeSmog Sep 20, 2019 @ 05:51 This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.   Millions of children and adults are expected to strike across the globe today, inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s call for climate action.  The strikes are happening ahead of the UN Climate Summit, which is taking place in New York on 23 September.  Climate strikers are calling for a “rapid revolution” to prevent global warming, with fossil fuels phased out fairly and swiftly and everyone has acces...