Moscow (AFP) – The wife of President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman faced a storm of criticism on Monday for performing a Holocaust-themed ice-dancing routine with striped costumes based on concentration camp uniforms.
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Russian Holocaust ice-skating routine slammed as ‘unbelievably tasteless’
(CNN)A Holocaust-themed ice skating routine on a Russian reality television show, involving the wife of a high-level aide to President Vladimir Putin, has sparked outrage around the world. The act was based on the award-winning 1997 Italian film, “Life is Beautiful,” which tells the story of a Jewish father who tries to hide his son from the horrors of the Holocaust through humor and games. In the routine, set to Israeli singer Noa’s “Beautiful That Way” from the film’s soundtrack, former Olympic ice skater Tatiana Navka and her dance partner Andrei Burkovsky dance in the striped pajamas and yellow six-pointed stars which Jewish victims of Nazi concentration camps were forced to wear. Navka married President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a large ceremony in August 2015.
NPR’s Hinojosa: The phrase ‘illegal immigrant’ is comparable to the Holocaust
Saturday, Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of NPR’s “Latino USA,” responded on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” to Donald Trump surrogate Steve Cortes saying “illegal immigrants” by comparing the phrase to the Holocaust Jews being labeled as “illegal people.”
For Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, a movie adaptation with some of-the-moment lessons
The historian Deborah Lipstadt — fertile of mind, digressive of conversation — was walking through the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan on a recent afternoon when she came across a magnificent vista of the Hudson River outside one window.
Your Holocaust cartoon contest
Hello and good morning,
Looking at your range of Holocaust cartoons I find all of them quite lame and listless. Not really snappish.
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Microsoft builds new AI bot to ignore Hitler
- Microsoft is trying to avoid another PR disaster with its new AI bot.
The company’s latest program can describe what it “sees” in photos.
‘It’s not clear if the Holocaust is a reality or not’
Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei discusses the Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Continue reading
Holocaust Bar & Grille
Mark Dice gets the word out about a new restaurant chain in Southern California, which has made Schindler’s List of the best barbecue joints around.
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Call me stupid but
If I accept your conclusions, which I have detected no reason within me not to, can I agree that the conclusion which “jumps off the page” is that 11% of Jews died during the second world war and 89% survived?
Breaking Silence, Survivor Sets Out to Meet Holocaust Past
MULTYFARNHAM, Ireland — The setting could hardly have been more incongruous. Outside the window, lush pastures spread in the perfection of a late winter morning. Inside, a small man with a yellow star pinned to his sweater captivated an audience with the horrors of his boyhood in the concentration camp called Bergen-Belsen.