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Holocaust denier strains Catholic

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:49:33 GMT

Holocaust denier strains Catholic-Jewish relations
CNN International - Feb 12, 2009
... would like to deny the facts," said Paul Shapiro, director of the center for advanced Holocaust studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ...

Hate Speech: Nazi propaganda on exhibit

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:48:47 GMT

Hate Speech: Nazi propaganda on exhibit
Winston-Salem Journal, NC - Feb 11, 2009
30 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and will run through December 2011. It documents how propaganda fostered public indifference as the Nazis went from ...

Holocaust museum examines Nazi propaganda

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:47:45 GMT

Holocaust museum examines Nazi propaganda
USA Today - Feb 11, 2009
30 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and runs through December 2011. It documents how propaganda fostered public indifference as the government and its ...

US Holocaust Memorial Museum speaker series programs in Chicago ...

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:46:47 GMT

US Holocaust Memorial Museum speaker series programs in Chicago ...
Chicago Sun-Times, United States - Feb 11, 2009
By Lynn Sweet on February 11, 2009 9:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) CHICAGO -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recently unveiled an important ...

Hitler's Greatest Weapon: Publicity

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:46:02 GMT

Hitler's Greatest Weapon: Publicity
Washington Post, United States - Feb 10, 2009
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's new show focuses on the tactics the Nazi party used to gain and maintain power in Germany. ...

Paper Love: Inside the Holocaust Archives

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:25:38 GMT

Paper Love: Inside the Holocaust Archives
Slate - 1 hour ago
In 2001, representatives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum requested access to the files. They were denied. And then they began an intensive campaign to ...

Task Force Issues Report

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:28:03 GMT

Task Force Issues Report
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD - Dec 30, 2008
That was one of the recommendations to help prevent genocide issued by a task force convened by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Academy of ...

Bush pal lauded for leadership of Holocaust museum

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:05:57 GMT

Bush pal lauded for leadership of Holocaust museum
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 18 hours ago
... there is broad agreement that Zeidman's tenure leading the governing board of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has been a success -- and that partisan ...

Jewish survivors remember Kristallnacht, a night of terror

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:14:51 GMT

Jewish survivors remember Kristallnacht, a night of terror
Examiner.com - 3 hours ago
Photo courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Susan Strauss remembers the night of November 9, 1938 as a night of terror and horror in her ...

Holocaust museum to project survivor portraits

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:15:46 GMT

Holocaust museum to project survivor portraits
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 19 hours ago
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The US Holocaust Memorial Museum will project portraits of survivors on its exterior walls as part of a slide show throughout Washington. ...

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Condemns Iranian President ...

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:48:32 GMT

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Condemns Iranian President ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 5 hours ago
19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum joins in the worldwide condemnation of the upcoming address of Iranian President ...

Police Chief Draws on Lessons of the Shoah to Sensitize Personnel

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:41:02 GMT

Police Chief Draws on Lessons of the Shoah to Sensitize Personnel
Jewish Exponent, PA - Jun 12, 2008
Ramsey noted that visiting the Holocaust museum opens police officers' minds to something they never thought of before. By using an historical event in the ...

Holocaust Museum exhibition on homosexual persecution planned at UVM

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:40:56 GMT

Holocaust Museum exhibition on homosexual persecution planned at UVM
BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - Jun 10, 2008
BURLINGTON -- The Holocaust Museum's traveling exhibition, "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945," will be on public display at the University of ...

Local TV, radio host Herson receives Holocaust Museum award

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:41:10 GMT

Local TV, radio host Herson receives Holocaust Museum award
Boca Raton News, USA - Jun 6, 2008
Karako went on to name the many contributions Herson has made to the US Holocaust Museum, including hosting numerous meetings, chairing a collections ...

Google Earth Taking You Inside Refugee Camps

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:57:24 GMT

Google Earth Taking You Inside Refugee Camps
Canada Free Press, Canada - Apr 10, 2008
Just yesterday, Michael Graham of the Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative at the US Holocaust Museum launched a new layer called “World is Witness. ...

Cops to get training at DC Holocaust Museum

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:29:35 GMT

Cops to get training at DC Holocaust Museum
Fairfield Minuteman, CT - 7 hours ago
The Holocaust museum, in conjunction with the Anti-Defemation League and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, created the training program ...

Cops to get training at DC Holocaust Museum

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:57:58 GMT

Cops to get training at DC Holocaust Museum
Fairfield Minuteman, CT - Mar 27, 2008
The Holocaust museum, in conjunction with the Anti-Defemation League and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, created the training program ...

How Hate Begins

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:29:40 GMT

How Hate Begins
Council on Foreign Relations, NY - 10 hours ago
Researchers on the Holocaust Museum staff sift through digital copies of this mass of material, along with other historical sources, with the goal of ...

A Reporter at Large

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:29:27 GMT

A Reporter at Large
New Yorker, United States - Mar 9, 2008
While the question of whether or not to display the hair of Holocaust victims has been settled at the Holocaust Museum, conservators and administrators at ...

Deadly medicine

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:57:43 GMT

Deadly medicine
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Feb 25, 2008
... designed to answer one of the big 'how was the Holocaust possible' questions," said Susan Bachrach, curator of the exhibition at the Holocaust Museum. ...

Expert to speak on racial facet of Holocaust

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:57:20 GMT

Expert to speak on racial facet of Holocaust
Macon Telegraph, GA - 7 hours ago
Of the 17 million people whose names the Holocaust museum received from the International Tracing Service, which tracked the detainees, six million were ...

US Holocaust Museum sponsoring program in Boca

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:57:44 GMT

US Holocaust Museum sponsoring program in Boca
Boca Raton News, USA - Feb 6, 2008
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s fourth annual Legacy of Light Society luncheon will feature Dr. Robert Satloff, author of “Among the ...

Holocaust Museum opens Online Youth Service Program

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:57:44 GMT

Holocaust Museum opens Online Youth Service Program
Student Operated Press, FL - Feb 6, 2008
by SOPnewswire WASHINGTON, DC — The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum launched R 3 : Remembrance, Reflection, Response, a free, online Museum youth ...

Common cruelty persists in spite of history's lessons

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:05:23 GMT

Common cruelty persists in spite of history's lessons
The Olympian, WA - 53 minutes ago
To walk in the Holocaust Museum is to be reminded of the logical, inevitable result of that refusal to accept, that insistence upon declaring that some ...

Vast Nazi archive opens to public

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:27:05 GMT

Vast Nazi archive opens to public
Pierceland Herald, Canada - 2 hours ago
In 2001 the State Department, urged on by the Holocaust museum, began pushing the 11-member governing commission to open the doors to the rapidly dying ...

Iranian president 'pathetic,' Wiesel says

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:07:26 GMT

Iranian president 'pathetic,' Wiesel says
Chicago Tribune, United States - 18 hours ago
Wiesel was the founding chairman of the Holocaust museum, which opened in Washington in 1993, and is now a professor at Boston University. ...

Holocaust Museum to feature traveling exhibit

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:11:59 GMT

Holocaust Museum to feature traveling exhibit
WTHR, IN - Sep 30, 2007
Terre Hatue, Ind. - A national Holocaust Museum exhibit is coming to a museum in Terre Haute. The exhibit, "Assignment: Rescue, The Story of Varian Fry and ...

From The Nazis To Darfur

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:15:24 GMT

From The Nazis To Darfur
Hartford Courant, United States - 4 hours ago
What the diverse group of 50 people from Bloomfield saw Tuesday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was a culture whose moorings were torn away. ...

DC, Jerusalem Museums Given Huge Nazi Archive

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:13:50 GMT

DC, Jerusalem Museums Given Huge Nazi Archive
Washington Post, United States - 12 hours ago
Six computer hard drives bearing electronic images of 20 million pages arrived late Monday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum here and the Yad Vashem ...

Local teacher experiences a piece of history in Washington, DC

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:05:17 GMT

Local teacher experiences a piece of history in Washington, DC
SouthCoastToday.com, MA - Jul 21, 2007
... Ms. Connor boarded a chartered plane at Hanscom Field at 7 am on June 27 and set out on a trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in ...

Nazi records detail a lucky twist of fate

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:21:20 GMT

Nazi records detail a lucky twist of fate
Deseret News, UT - 9 hours ago
Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, described Schwartz's journey through the hellish ...

Vienna Jewish Archive Tells Tale of Nazi Annexation

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:11:59 GMT

Vienna Jewish Archive Tells Tale of Nazi Annexation
NPR - Jul 14, 2007
For the seven years since its discovery, the community and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, have been cataloging the archive in order to ...

Vienna Jewish Archive on Display

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:51:25 GMT

Vienna Jewish Archive on Display
ABC News - Jul 4, 2007
Since 2002, the Jewish Community Vienna and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington have been working together to preserve the material found in 2000 ...

Rare Diary Published by Holocaust Memorial Museum

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:53:55 GMT

Rare Diary Published by Holocaust Memorial Museum
Epoch Times, NY - Jun 26, 2007
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum learned about McDonald's diary when a two year fragment was donated to the museum in 2003 by Patricia Sugrue ...

Students 'all quiet' after visit to Holocaust Museum

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:17:58 GMT

Students 'all quiet' after visit to Holocaust Museum
Muskegon Chronicle, MI - 22 hours ago
... face with what many of them characterized as one of the most powerful exhibits in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: a massive pile of shoes. ...

Pre World War II Diary Warns of Coming Holocaust

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:32:10 GMT

Pre-World War II Diary Warns of Coming Holocaust
Epoch Times, NY - Jun 25, 2007
The diary was published by Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "What this book tells is a sort of ...

Story of survival

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:10:12 GMT

Story of survival
SouthCoastToday.com, MA - Jun 8, 2007
In her research, Rachel — who has relatives who were victims of the Holocaust — visited the Web site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ...

Miami professor helping Holocaust survivors tell of horrors

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:56:48 GMT

Miami professor helping Holocaust survivors tell of horrors
Hamilton Journal News (subscription), OH - Jun 8, 2007
The question rang in the ears of Holocaust survivors during a professor's presentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, ...

Huge Holocaust archive unveiled

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:10:55 GMT

Huge Holocaust archive unveiled
Chicago Sun-Times, IL - 1 hour ago
... deportation lists, emigration documents, poignant letters and family photos, goes on display Thursday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. ...

A Nation’s Lost Holocaust History, Now on Display

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:22:56 GMT

A Nation’s Lost Holocaust History, Now on Display
New York Times, NY - Jun 1, 2007
... preserving and microfilming the archives — a joint project of Jewish Community Vienna and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington ...

Bush Tightens Fiscal Penalties Against Sudan

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:02:19 GMT

Bush Tightens Fiscal Penalties Against Sudan
New York Times, NY - 49 minutes ago
... many expected him to announce measures against Sudan last month in a speech he delivered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. ...

Art project gives context to history's horrors

Thu, 24 May 2007 16:26:29 GMT

Art project gives context to history's horrors
Billerica Minuteman, MA - 17 hours ago
... project was based on video testimonies of Holocaust survivors taken in the 1990s that are now stored at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

UN officials learn Holocaust lessons at Washington seminar

Fri, 18 May 2007 15:11:40 GMT

UN officials learn Holocaust lessons at Washington seminar
Jerusalem Post, Israel - 18 hours ago
... prevention," said Dan Napolitano, director of education within the National Institute of Holocaust Education at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. ...

Big ideas from young mind

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:15:24 GMT

Big ideas from young mind
Chicago Tribune, IL - 5 hours ago
John Heffernan, an official with the Holocaust Memorial Museum, said leaders need to talk about ideas generated by students such as Stoller. ...

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Fri, 04 May 2007 19:31:23 GMT

US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Voice of America - 22 minutes ago
SWIADER: "The US Holocaust Memorial Museum website is a place that you can get, we hope, any answer to any question about the history of the holocaust and, ...