To remember: seven films about the Holocaust

The Holocaust occupies one of the saddest places in the history of human error. This is a lesson that everyone needs to learn and remember forever. Remember, out of respect for those who could not meet the dawn of the next day just because they were born into their own family, ...

The Congress recognized the Holodomor as a genocide of Ukrainians

The resolution was co-sponsored by more than three dozen congressmen from the Democratic and Republican parties. The House of Representatives of the US Congress unanimously adopted a resolution in which the Holodomor of 1932-1933. recognized as genocide of the Ukrainian people. The Ukrainian Embassy in the United States reported this on Facebook. “So for today...

The third wave of anti-Semitism has begun in the world. How to recognize it

At the end of November, CNN published a study on anti-Semitism in Europe: only 10% of people surveyed in seven countries admitted to dislike Jews. A 2016 study by the Levada Center confirms that open anti-Semitism in Russia has also dropped to historic lows. At the same time, almost 40% of Russians are in favor of limiting the number of Jews in power ...

Konstantin Khabensky - about the nomination of the film "Sobibor" for "Oscar" and freedom in Russia

The Russian Oscar Committee nominated Sobibor, a military drama by Konstantin Khabensky, for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. In an interview with Ekaterina Kotrikadze on the RTVI channel, Khabensky told why he chose Sobibor for his directorial debut; about how the Ministry of Culture of Russia influenced ...

Former Nazi concentration camp guard accused of killing 36 223 people

The German prosecutor's office brought charges against a 95-year-old Berliner: the man is accused of involvement in the deaths of more than 35 thousand prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen in Austria. According to the current rules, the name of the defendant is not fully disclosed, in public materials he appears as Hans X, writes ...

The premiere of the film by Konstantin Khabensky 'Sobibor' took place in New York

“In Russian history, the topic of the Jewish Holocaust, raised in the film, was taboo,” said professor Olga Gershenson at yesterday’s premiere in New York. An exclusive screening of the Russian 2019 Oscar contender, the film Sobibor, took place yesterday at the National Arts…

A resident of New York, who survived the Holocaust, died because of a crush on the subway

An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor died last Thursday, days after hitting his head when he was pushed in a New York City subway station. Kurt Salzinger was about to go to Macy's in Herald Square when a strange man pushed him and his...

80 years of 'Crystal Night': how the Holocaust began

On the night of November 9–10, 1938, Jewish pogroms took place in Berlin and other German cities, as well as in the occupied Sudetenland and annexed Austria. Later, these events were called “Kristallnacht” - because of the glass fragments of thousands of shop windows that were broken in...

Over the 94-year-old security guard of the death camp began a trial for terrible crimes

In Germany, the trial of a 94-year-old former SS soldier who served in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II has begun. Johann Rebogen worked as a security guard at Stutthof, a concentration camp east of present-day Gdansk in Poland, from June 1942 until ...

In the United States opened a unique memorial to the victims of the Holocaust

A special event took place in Philadelphia - the opening of the Holocaust Memorial, which is at the intersection of 16th and The Parkway. “Six Columns” The square features “Six Columns,” which contrast the atrocities of the Holocaust with the American Constitution and values. The idea is to...

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