Holocaust

Bronze medallist Montag pays tribute to Holocaust survivor grandmother

After winning Commonwealth gold in 2022, Montag said: "Towards the end of the Holocaust (in mid-January 1945) they marched through snow and cold for days on end in little sandals and hardly any clothing.

ESSAY / The Palestinian crisis, Holocaust production, and ‘Maus’

This is part of a grand narrative that, offensive as it is, asks why the Jewish people let themselves be killed, instead of asking why the system enabled it to happen–the same narrative also exists in the cases of colonialism and slavery.

Israeli Embassy criticises Varun Dhawan, Janhvi Kapoor's 'Bawaal'

The Israeli Embassy in India and Jewish rights organisations have condemned Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor's recent film "Bawaal" for its content. They claim that the film trivialises the Holocaust's significance. 

100-year-old Vanzini ‘would give up pension’ for an Inter win

"My passion began when I was seven ... I was never able to go, and I had no money," Vanzini, now 100, told Reuters

Partition 1947: The art of remembering

In our school textbooks, Partition was a minor detail in the climax of the rousing story of the Indian National Movement.

INTERVIEW / Carole Angier on writing the biography of WG Sebald

In Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald (Bloomsbury, 2021), you write that the author’s British publisher, Christopher MacLehose, was in a dilemma to decide on Sebald’s genre of writing. After writing about his novel and his life for so long, how would you define Sebald’s genre?

US Holocaust museum rescinds award to Myanmar's Suu Kyi

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country's minority Rohingya Muslims, the museum says.

Ex-Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning convicted

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard is convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, according to the judge presiding over what could be one of Germany's last Holocaust trials.

German cinema rediscovers Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer

With two new films, German cinema rediscovers the country's fiercest Nazi hunter, former prosecutor Fritz Bauer, honouring a man who fought against post-war amnesia about the Holocaust.

September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015

Men claiming discovery of Nazi 'gold train' go public

Two treasure hunters claiming to have discovered a Nazi "gold train" went public for the first time but failed to reveal evidence for the alleged.

May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015

Iran holds anti-Islamic State cartoon contest

Not long after staging a cartoon contest satirizing the Holocaust, a group in Iran launched another event — this time, aimed at the Islamic State extremist group.

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