Summary: Study finds evidence that present-day Germans who live close to World War Two concentration camp sites are more xenophobic, more likely to support extreme right-wing politics, and less tolerant to…
The South Dakota legislature is considering the nation’s first law that could send doctors to jail for treating transgender youths younger than 16 with hormone therapy or surgery, and the…
Jessica Glatt should not, by all accounts, be here. For her to be born, both her grandfather and her grandmother had to survive the Holocaust — they miraculously did, by…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrIs22plz0 Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is a 2020 American documentary film directed, written and co-produced by Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht. Barack and Michelle Obama serve as executive producers…
Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, using the testimony of survivors to warn about the signs of rising…
Alina Dabrowska was 20 years old when she first heard about Auschwitz. She was an inmate at a prison in Nazi-occupied Poland — incarcerated for helping Allied forces — and…
Traumatic experiences can be shared across generations. Is there a way to stop the legacy of pain? A boy and his baby brother hide in the forest for months, sleeping…
BY HELEN EPSTEIN JANUARY 24, 2020IDEASEpstein is the editor of her late mother’s memoir Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival, to be published by Penguin in March 2020. She’s the author of Children…
From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial. By Michelle Alexander Opinion Columnist Jan. 17, 2020 Protesters in Baltimore in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death in…
Reparations and the lingering racial wealth gap have been conversations largely within the black American community. Both issues have received wider attention of late, particularly among the current crop of…