Holocaust Survivor Boris Romantschenko Killed in Russian Attack on Ukraine
On March 18 2022, Holocaust survivor Boris Romantschenko was killed in his home during Russian strikes on Charkiv, Ukraine.
On March 18 2022, Holocaust survivor Boris Romantschenko was killed in his home during Russian strikes on Charkiv, Ukraine.
In January 2022, a Tennessee school board’s decision to ban Maus (a graphic novel about the Holocaust) led to extensive discussions on social media.
A screenshot of a post to r/Judaism was shared to Imgur, describing the liberation of the Gęsiówka labor camp.
A popular Imgur post maintained that a fictitious pathogen called “Syndrome K” was fabricated by Italian doctors to hide Jewish people from Nazis.
Social media users shared a shocking comparison between the number of people in Auschwitz at the end of 1943 with the number of children alone in border camps.
A popular Reddit post centered on a photograph purportedly showing the moment the prisoners were freed from a train that had been intercepted by Allied forces.
In December 2017, the Facebook page “Historical Pictures” shared the following image: A caption read: Wedding bands that were removed from Holocaust victims prior to being executed, 1945. Each ring represents a destroyed family. Never forget. The image is genuine, and this post wasn’t the image’s first appearance on the internet, as previous iterations of the …
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In late December 2018, the Facebook page for Yahoo! Now shared a link to an article with a comment that two-thirds of millennials “don’t know what Auschwitz was.” The post linked to an article aggregated to Yahoo! from Newsweek on April 12 2018, “One-Third of Americans Don’t Believe 6 Million Jews Were Murdered During the …
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