Holocaust DNA
Jewish families long separated by the Holocaust could one day be reunited by new DNA matching techniques, say scientists who are building a genetic database of holocaust survivors. As this ScienCentral News video explains, the new methods were initially developed to identify victims of the World Trade Center attacks.
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The Diary of Anne Frank made real the 11 million deaths of the Holocaust. One of the most affecting displays in the Holocaust Museum is the room with a jumble of shoes. It allows us to grasp the enormity of the murder when we see thousands of pairs of shoes, each one taken from a unique life, itself just a fraction of the total count.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day is “A Good Opportunity for the Israeli Regime To Make the Europeans Beg For Forgiveness”
Continue readingThe French anti-revisionist law dates from July 13, 1990. It is known by various names: “Gayssot law,” “Fabius-Gayssot law,” “Faurisson law,” “lex Faurissonia,” or “article 24bis” (of the law of July 29, 1881, on press freedom). It provides for a prison sentence of up to a year as well as a maximum fine of €45,000 for anyone who publicly disputes the reality of one or more “crimes against humanity” as defined and ruled on, essentially, by the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg in 1945-1946. In addition to the prison sentence and fine there can be an order to pay damages to Jewish or other associations as well as the heavy costs of having the decision published in the media: finally, the courts may order the confiscation of any work material, along with books and papers, seized by the police.
A holocaust after Auschwitz
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Continue readingHolocaust survivor speaks to the class
HUDSON — Rena Finder recalls sitting next to her friend Stella in a concentration camp outside Krakow, Poland, more than 60 years ago. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, Stella fell over. When she reached behind her friend to help her up, Finder discovered her hand was wet with blood.
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Continue reading(JTA) — Germany published a new list of its citizens who were killed in the Holocaust.
The new register, published May 7, updates the first edition, from 1986, which listed only victims from the former West Germany. The new version includes all of Germany and parts of modern Poland and contains 150,000 names. Up to 600,000 Jews lived in Germany before the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s.
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