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‘Doctors Against Genocide’ cancels protest at US Holocaust Museum after uproar

The museum called the planned protest in Washington DC ‘deeply offensive’

By Eliana Jordan

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People visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC (Photo: Getty)
© Photo Per Kristiansen www.perkristiansen.se Stockholm, Sweden
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Four artists selected for Holocaust Centre North memorial residency

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National Holocaust Museum launches new service to tackle antisemitism
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National Holocaust Museum launches new service to tackle antisemitism

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Members of Columbia University's faculty hold a protest in support of Palestine and for free speech on the Columbia University campus on November 15, 2023 in New York City. The university suspended two student organizations, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voices for Peace, for violating university policies. The tense atmosphere at many college campuses has increased as student groups, activists and others have protested both in support of Israel and Palestine (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Yehuda Bauer

By Yehuda Bauer

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Anne Frank mural in Italy and Shoah memorial in Denmark vandalised
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Anne Frank mural in Italy and Shoah memorial in Denmark vandalised

By Richard Percival

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Exploring the emotional recovery of a Shoah survivor who lost father, brother and sister
Holocaust survivors

Exploring the emotional recovery of a Shoah survivor who lost father, brother and sister

By John Nathan

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2PH7YJ9 The Ruined Ohel Yaakov synagogue in Munich. Kristallnacht was a nationwide pogrom that was organised and carried out by the nazi Party on the 9th November 1938. Shops and synagogues were destroyed and people humiliated and beaten while the police looked on, or even helped. Though the amount of damage and the number of people attacked was quite small, the fact that it was completely unopposed showed the Nazis that they could really start in on the Jews and, as such, is one of the major milestones on the way to The Holocaust. https://commons.wiki
Karen Pollock

By Karen Pollock

During Kristallnacht, the Jews were defenceless. 85 years on, we can defend ourselves from hate

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