Adolf Hitler
Time to remember more than one atrocity? A defense of Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Avi Shafran — February 1, 2023
(RNS) — There’s a reason we take a special day to remember the Holocaust.
Hitler became German chancellor 90 years ago. The world is still recovering.
By A. James Rudin — January 30, 2023
(RNS) — The events of January 30, 1933, instilled a still-persistent yearning for xenophobic totalitarian rule.
Vatican’s Pius XII archives begin to shed light on WWII pope
By Nicole Winfield — June 7, 2022
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A new book, citing recently opened Vatican archives, suggests the lives the Vatican worked hardest to save were Jews who had converted to Catholicism or were children of Catholic-Jewish 'mixed marriages'.
Oberammergau Passion Play enters a new era
By Noam E. Marans and Peter A. Pettit — May 9, 2022
(RNS) — Oberammergau is no longer a capital of antisemitism.
How will history judge Vladimir Putin?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 24, 2022
(RNS) — In his hunger for Ukraine, Putin walks in the path of Hitler.
A new Anne Frank Center aims to reshape racism through Holocaust education
By Yonat Shimron — September 15, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. (RNS) — The German-Dutch diarist is being memorialized in the heart of the South as part of an educational effort to stem not only hatred of Jews, but bigotry, discrimination and racism more broadly.
Poll: What do Americans know about the Holocaust? Some, not much
By Yonat Shimron — January 22, 2020
(RNS) — A new Pew Research Center poll shows Americans generally know what the Holocaust was, but fewer than half can correctly cite the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust — 6 million.
In ‘Hidden Life’, Terrence Malick says freedom is won in standing up for beliefs
By Claire Giangravé — December 11, 2019
(RNS) — God is never mentioned in the philosophical director's latest film: There is no need. God’s presence is always implied in the physical world.
The death of trust and the triumph of suspicion
By Thomas Reese — June 26, 2019
(RNS) — Unless we build bridges and trust, neither the church nor America has much of a future.
Austria to convert or demolish house Hitler was born in
By Jerome Socolovsky — October 17, 2016
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria plans to convert and possibly tear down the house Hitler was born in to prevent it becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
British Labour Party struggles to root out anti-Semitism
By guest — May 6, 2016
(RNS) The scandal stems from an unapologetic criticism of Israel for its actions in the occupied territories and elsewhere.
The danger and ego of Donald Trump, all in one gesture
By Jana Riess — March 8, 2016
Maybe it was a thoughtless accident that led Donald Trump to have supporters raise their right hands to him. But his refusal to apologize tells us everything we need to know.
102-year-old finally awarded Ph.D. she was denied under Nazis
By Jaleesa Jones — June 11, 2015
When Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport first submitted her doctoral thesis on diphtheria in 1938, she was barred from completing her oral defense under Hitler's Nuremberg Race Laws, which disenfranchised citizens with Jewish ancestry.
How Christians forgot Jesus’ Jewishness, and why they should recover it
By Jonathan Merritt — December 29, 2014
Jesus was not the first Christian; he was a faithful practicing Jewish person. According to one Catholic historian, forgetting this fact has severe consequences.
The dark legacy of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — October 10, 2014
SANIBEL, Fla. (RNS) Henry Ford "really has a very dark history as far as the Jewish community and Jews are concerned." Indeed.
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