Time Magazine Article: Why Auschwitz Plays Such a Central Role in Holocaust Remembrance
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70 years after World War II, PBS FRONTLINE will interview some of the last remaining survivors of the Holocaust, in The Last Survivors, airing Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at 10pm on PBS. As one of the survivors says, “We are the last ones, when we’ve gone…. Then it’s all history books.”
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On Good Friday, a town in Poland enacted a ritual that involved burning a life-size effigy of Judas (The “betrayer of Jesus”) dressed up like a stereotypical Jew with a hooked nose and sidelocks. Residents of Pruchnik (including the children), beat and then hanged the effigy, before taking it down and burning it. The World Jewish Congress issued a statement expressing “disgust and outrage at this latest blatantly antisemitic manifestation,” and that “Jews are deeply disturbed by this ghastly revival of medieval antisemitism that led to unimaginable violence and suffering.” The Polish Catholic Church also harshly condemned the townsfolk. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/jewish-effigy-representing-judas-burnt-and-hung-in-poland-1.7156444
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The President of Poland Andrzej Duda and the Vice-President of the United States Mike Pence at the Auschwitz Memorial. http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/the-president-of-poland-andrzej-duda-and-the-vice-president-of-the-united-states-mike-pence-at-the-auschwitz-memorial,1355.html