Culture Buzz Another day, another Urban Outfitters controversy. The Anti-Defamation League is none too thrilled over this shirt, bearing a design which they feel too closely resembles the Star of David that Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust. The company who made the shirt denied it has anything to do with Holocaust imagery and the shirt is no longer available on the Urban Outfitters website.
Culture Buzz Some very moving photos. To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the president toured the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate — and Holocaust survivor — Elie Wiesel. President Obama took the opportunity to denounce human rights abuses in Iran and Syria.
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It was 1944 when Lemel Leo Adler last saw his cousin Leon Schagrin. They had been teenagers then, meeting by chance at a Nazi death camp in Auschwitz before being separated and lost to each other for decades.
Culture Buzz This guy is seriously running for the Republican nomination to represent Illinois in the House of Representatives. Here are some anti-Semitic, homophobic, racist, xenophobic and downright weird quotes from Arthur “Art” Jones, the 64-year-old National Socialist Holocaust denier who hopes to represent Illinois' 3rd Congressional District.
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An Israeli programmer was recently criticized for his videogame about the Holocaust.
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An American woman's research suggests that German women had a greater role in World War II genocide than previously thought.
On a recent trip across Europe, a Holocaust survivor and his family visited several concentration camps and danced to Gloria Gaynor's hit “I Will Survive.” It's the most heart-warming Holocaust memorial ever displayed.
A student group at Middle Tennessee State University try to put a funky fresh spin on genocide.
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A Hamas spiritual leader on Monday called teaching Palestinian children about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews a “war crime,” rejecting a suggestion that the U.N. might include the Holocaust in Gaza's school curriculum.
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Architectural plans for the Auschwitz death camp that were discovered in Berlin last year were handed over to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for display at Israel's Holocaust memorial.
If Holocaust survivors knew how to use the Internet, they'd probably find this a lot more funny. Although, really, you don't have to be a Holocaust survivor to want to flush this a-hole down a giant toilet.
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An elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, killing a security guard before being shot. Authorities said they were investigating a white supremacist as the suspect.
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Two people, including the gunman, were wounded in a shooting at a Holocaust memorial museum in Washington D.C. The shooter has been identified as known white supremacist James Von Brunn. He and a security guard were rushed to the hostipal shortly afterwards. Their status is currently unknown.
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A Gunman exchanged fire with security guards at a Holocaust memorial museum in Washington DC. The gunman and one security guard were shot, and rushed to the hospital.
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A gunman exchanged fire with security guards inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday. Both the gunman and a security guard were shot, and were rushed to the hospital. Their condition in not currently known.
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A St. Paul teacher is under fire after she made an offensive joke about the Holocaust. The birth and death of a lesson plan.