A new translation of Felix Salten’s 1923 novel reasserts its original message that warns of Jewish persecutionIt’s a saccharine sweet story about a young deer who finds love and friendship in a forest. But the original tale of Bambi, adapted by Disney …
Vaccine protests and yellow stars
I’m used to, not to put too fine a point on it, Gentile nonsense about the Holocaust, fetishization and minimization at once, the ways Holocaust deniers at once erase the existence of history and long for it to recur. But I am, despite myself, angry. Y…
‘The Shop on Main Street’
‘Obchod na korze’
y/t. ‘The Shop on Main Street’ is a 1965 Czechoslovakian film about the Aryanization program during World War II in the Slovak State.”
Former concentration camp secretary to Nazis, 96, flees before trial
Whereabouts of Irmgard Furchner, charged with aiding and abetting murder of thousands, is unknownA 96-year-old woman who worked as a secretary for a Nazi concentration camp commandant has gone on the run from her care home before the start of her trial…
My grandmother’s Nazi killer evaded justice. Modern war criminals must not
As the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials approaches, Ilse Cohn’s grandson calls for international law to ensure those committing atrocities today face retributionThe man who ordered the murder of my grandmother never stood trial for the crime. N…
How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis
The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture warOn a winter’s day in 1898, a stocky young man with a handlebar moustache was hurrying along the banks of a canal in Hamburg, north Germany. Franz …
Amsterdam ‘stumbling stones’ commemorate gay victims of Nazis
Four brass memorial plaques embedded in street remember Jews and resistance fightersMore than 75 years after they were murdered in the gas chambers or shot, gay victims of Nazi persecution were remembered with “stumbling stones” laid in Amsterdam this …
A ‘safe space for racists’: antisemitism report criticises social media giants
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok failing to act on most reported anti-Jewish posts, says studyThere has been a serious and systemic failure to tackle antisemitism across the five biggest social media platforms, resulting in a “safe spac…
Anger as Poland plans law that will stop Jews reclaiming wartime homes
Daughter of Holocaust survivor pledges to continue her fight for family property seized by Nazi occupiersA few years ago, Shoshana Greenberg stood outside a building in Lodz, Poland, once owned by her family, with an old photograph in her hands and tea…
Revealed: the secret trauma that inspired German literary giant
WG Sebald’s writing on the Holocaust was driven by the anger and distress he felt over his father’s service in Hitler’s armyHis books are saturated with despair. Over and over again, his emotionally traumatised characters are caught – inescapably – in …