{"id":193,"date":"2019-04-22T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/?page_id=193"},"modified":"2019-05-02T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T18:23:13","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"headline heading-content margin-8-top margin-16-bottom\">Time Magazine Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5577552\/holocaust-remembrance-auschwitz\/\">Why Auschwitz Plays Such a Central Role in Holocaust Remembrance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>70 years after World War II, PBS FRONTLINE\u00a0 will interview some of the last remaining survivors of the Holocaust, in\u00a0<strong><em>The Last Survivors<\/em><\/strong>, airing Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at 10pm on PBS.\u00a0 As one of the survivors says, \u201c<em>We are the last ones, when we\u2019ve gone\u2026. Then it\u2019s all history books.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/announcement\/on-april-30-frontline-shares-the-stories-of-the-last-survivors-of-the-holocaust\/\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/announcement\/on-april-30-frontline-shares-the-stories-of-the-last-survivors-of-the-holocaust\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_____________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>On Good Friday, a town in Poland enacted a ritual\u00a0that involved burning a life-size effigy of Judas (The &#8220;betrayer of Jesus&#8221;) dressed up like a stereotypical Jew with a hooked nose and sidelocks.\u00a0Residents of Pruchnik (including the children), beat and then hanged the effigy, before taking it down and burning it. The\u00a0World Jewish Congress\u00a0 issued a statement expressing\u00a0 &#8220;disgust and outrage at this latest blatantly antisemitic manifestation,&#8221; and that &#8220;Jews are deeply disturbed by this ghastly revival of medieval antisemitism that led to unimaginable violence and suffering.&#8221; The Polish Catholic Church also harshly condemned the townsfolk.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/world-news\/europe\/jewish-effigy-representing-judas-burnt-and-hung-in-poland-1.7156444\">https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/world-news\/europe\/jewish-effigy-representing-judas-burnt-and-hung-in-poland-1.7156444\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">The President of Poland Andrzej Duda and the Vice-President of the United States Mike Pence at the Auschwitz Memorial.\u00a0<a href=\"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\">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<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time Magazine Article: Why Auschwitz Plays Such a Central Role in Holocaust Remembrance ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 70 years after World War II, PBS FRONTLINE\u00a0 will interview some of the last remaining survivors of the Holocaust, in\u00a0The Last Survivors, airing Tuesday, April 30, 2019, at 10pm on PBS.\u00a0 As one of the survivors says, \u201cWe are the last &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/in-the-news\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/holocaust-landscapes-studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}