Por: The Boston Globe Nation September 24, 2022
One day in 1944 at the Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, Ilse and Ruth Scheuer saw their father for the last time.“You two are young; maybe you will survive,” Jakob Scheuer told them. He raised his hands toward their heads and, in a voice choked with emotion, gave them a Hebrew blessing: “May God bless you and watch over you. May God shine his face toward you and show you favor.”Jakob Scheuer was soon gassed. Ilse,... + full article
The Atlantic USA Entertainment September 24, 2022
Ken Burns’s docuseries The U.S. and the Holocaust confronts a topic that many Americans of every political stripe prefer to avoid: responsibility.Getty; National Archives and Records Administration; Joanne Imperio / The AtlanticSeptember 16, 2022Many works of history are much... + más
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The Atlantic USA Life September 24, 2022
The possibility of a more just future is at stake when young people are denied access to knowledge of the past.Roger Ressmeyer / Corbis / VCG / GettyFebruary 2, 2022The instinct to ban books in schools seems to come from a desire to protect children from things that the adults... + más
School book bans and challenges, at record highs, are rising again | The Boston Globe
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Time USA Life September 24, 2022
There is a neon sign in the Walpole, New Hampshire editing room where filmmaker Ken Burns spends so many of his days. The sign is in cursive, all lower-case, and it simply says: “it’s complicated.” Those words capture the sentiment of so many of Burns’s films—the Civil... + más
How Not to Talk About the Holocaust | The Atlantic
Why Democracies Are So Slow to Respond to Evil | The Atlantic
The Atlantic USA Opinion September 24, 2022
A simple guide to discussing Jewish genocideGetty; The AtlanticSeptember 21, 2022About the author: is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter . It’s rarely a good sign when the Holocaust trends on social media, and this week was no exception. On... + más
Ken Burns on His Film 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' | Time
The Boston Globe USA Nation September 23, 2022
After Boston resident Andi Pollinger’s mother died of breast cancer, she inherited a triangular pendant engraved with her mother’s birth date, a green Jewish star, the name of her home city, Frankfurt, and the word ‘Shaddai,’ which means God in Hebrew. For Pollinger, the... + más
The Boston Globe USA Life September 19, 2022
I’m still reeling from “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” still pondering its complex portrait of national inaction, and thinking more than ever about Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel’s observation, “Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”This piercing, must-see... + más
Ken Burns speaks about his latest project, 'The US and the Holocaust' | ABC News
Facebook reverses permanent ban on Holocaust movie after outcry | Ars Technica
ABC News USA Entertainment September 17, 2022
During the Second World War, the U.S accepted refugees from Europe, the largest amount of any sovereign nation.But what did the country fail to do in response to the largest humanitarian disaster in human history, during which 6 million Jewish people were murdered?Producers Ken... + más
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BP oil spill money to pay for range of new coastal restoration projects | The Advocate
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