Holocaust
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The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has rescinded its top award to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi because of her failure to condemn and stop military attacks on her country's minority Rohingya Muslims, the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.
Germany tells Netanyahu: We are responsible for the Holocaust
Germany has insisted it was responsible for the Holocaust, after Israel's prime minister claimed a Palestinian leader told the Nazis to kill Europe's Jews.
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.
