Word: holocaust
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...followed by students who read short passages about the Holocaust, Israel and Judaism by renowned authors including Elie Weisel and Primo Levi...
After each piece, the reader extinguished one of the six candles that were lit to represent the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust...
Harvard Hillel began its commemoration of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Rememberance Day, last night with a short service and a powerful movie on neo-Nazism...
...commission recommended paying reparations to survivors. It looked to precedents like the Civil Rights Acts of 1988, which paid $20,000 to Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II. It also cited the settlement of claims of Holocaust survivors from Swiss banks, which had retained some money deposited before the war by the survivors’ families, and the $2 million set aside by the Florida legislature for survivors of the 1923 attack on Rosewood, a black town burned during a week of rioting. There are other precedents. Families of victims of the East St. Louis riot...
...their windows, even if those signs are only meant to express the idea that Jews should not be allowed. But again, beyond legality, we do not find it acceptable for the Ku Klux Klan to march in Skokie, Ill., because it has the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors in the country. We don’t make it illegal, but we protest, chastise and exert social pressure to make clear that behavior of that sort is unacceptable...