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A Palestinian remembers the Holocaust

By Uriel Heilman · May 7, 2009

In this moving account by a Palestinian of his observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, I was struck by the following thought: Maybe one of the reasons Arabs are so quick to compare Israelis to Nazis is that they, like the author of this piece in Ha’aretz, don’t really know what the Holocaust was.

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Did FDR try to rescue Europe’s Jews?

By Uriel Heilman · May 1, 2009

A new book on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s record on the Holocaust upends a widely held view that the wartime president was indifferent to the fate of Europe’s Jews, The New York Times reports:

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Prince Charles recalls Kindertransport

By Lisa Hostein · November 24, 2008

Seventy years after Britain enacted the Kindertransport, Prince Charles recalls with pride one of his country’s finest hours.

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Cultural takes on the Holocaust

By Lisa Hostein · November 10, 2008

Beyond the predictable remembrances marking the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht are a wide array of cultural offerings that try, through art, to depict the horrors of the time.