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Per CBS News, the U.S. Millennial Holocaust Knowledge and Awareness Survey found that 63 percent of young American adults do not know that six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. An estimated 36 percent of participants also thought the death toll was two million or fewer. The study, which was commissioned by the Claims […]

Conservative radio host Dennis Prager, the founder of the nonprofit Prager University, recently ridiculed Anne Frank for her immaturity while responding to one of her diary quotes during his Fireside Chat, Newsweek reports. The German-born diarist died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and is known for her posthumously published The Diary […]

Loewe, a luxury fashion brand based in Spain, has pulled an outfit that critics say bears a striking resemblance to the striped pajamas prisoners in Nazi concentration camps were made to wear, CNN reports. Last week, the brand introduced the William De Morgan capsule collection, inspired by the 19th-Century British potter and ceramicist. Some items […]

A Florida high school principal has officially been fired 16 months after he sent an email to a parent saying that he “couldn’t confirm” the Holocaust was a “factual event,” CNN reports. Back in 2018, William Latson made the national news after a parent complained about an email she had received from the educator. The […]

A Holocaust survivor is taking aim at Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after her controversial remark comparing migrant detention facilities to concentration camps, with the 93-year-old saying she deserves the “Nobel Prize in stupidity” for her comment. Ed Mosberg was a survivor of the Plaszow and Mauthausen camps, and this week, he spoke to the New York […]

Michigan’s Democratic freshman representative, Rashida Tlaib, is being slammed by House Republicans over remarks she made during an interview on Yahoo News’s Skullduggery podcast published Saturday, according to The Washington Post. In the interview, Tlaib spoke at length about her feelings towards the Holocaust and discussed her support for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian […]

Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro believes that Holocaust crimes can be forgiven, but not forgotten, The Hill reports. Bolsonaro’s controversial comments come only days after his visit to the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. The Brazilian president visited the center together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We can forgive, but we […]

A gay man who was recently profiled with his husband about being Trump supporters attacked critics on social media by saying “we will gas you” and using other inflammatory language that has alarmed and outraged the LGBT community. The Trump supporter, Bryan Eure, was profiled in the New York Times along with his husband Bill […]

A meeting of art experts and multiple organizations was held back in 1989 with the purpose of returning over half a million pieces of art stolen by Nazis from Jews during World War II. This effort was spearheaded by an American diplomat named Stuart Eizenstat who created a document through this meeting called the “Washington […]

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) traded barbs on Monday in discussing an incident involving immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border this weekend, in which men, women, and children were hit with tear gas from border patrol agents. Ocasio-Cortez sent a tweet in response to that event, writing that applying […]

People who are looking to Facebook to provide them with less “fake news” than before are going to be sorely disappointed in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest proclamation. According to the New York Daily News, the Facebook CEO has made clear that his platform will not ban people considered to be “conspiracy pushers and hoax […]

As reported by Time, it appears as though famed Holocaust victim Anne Frank and her family were trying to escape their home nation and seek refuge in either the United States or Cuba, prior to their famous move of hiding in a concealed attic to avoid Nazi soldiers. However, much like the issues faced by […]

Jews have “a moral obligation,” Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said, to attempt to halt what he described as a genocide occurring in Syria. “I have said in the past and I will say it again, what’s happening in Syria is genocide of women and children in its cruelest form, using weapons of mass […]

Much to the chagrin of her fellow Celebrity Big Brother cast members, Marissa Jaret Winokur made a Holocaust joke as the group was sequestered and waiting for production staff to let them out of the CBB US Head of Household (HOH) room. It is unclear exactly what was taking place in the Big Brother: Celebrity […]

Holocaust Remembrance Day is being celebrated throughout the world due to an ongoing United Nations resolution, but Saudi Arabia’s participation is being noted in world news as surprising. According to the Washington Institute website, Muhammad Al Issa, also known as Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Issa, secretary general of the Muslim World League based in Saudi […]

On their first royal tour as a family, the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge visited the Stutthof Concentration Camp during the second day of their Poland visit. Kate Middleton and Prince William visited the former Stutthof camp in northern Poland, where 65,000 people are estimated to have died during Germany’s occupation during World War […]

This is the real-life story of Benjamin Levin, now 89-years-old and living in Ossining, New York, who became a vigilante freedom fighter at just 14-years-old during the Second World War. The truth is that no one, including Benjamin, really knows how old he is; he had so many false identity documents when he was in […]

Melissa McCarthy appeared once again as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live (SNL). Donning a blonde wig and dressed as “the White House Easter Bunny,” McCarthy spoofed the blunder-prone press secretary’s apology after suggesting that Hitler was a lesser evil than President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. During the press briefing at […]

MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews seems to be defending Sean Spicer for claiming that Hitler never used chemical weapons, perhaps because he made the same gaffe in August 2013. After trying to justify the U.S. missile attack on a Syrian airbase, Spicer, the White House press secretary, apologized multiple times following the outrage and scorn that […]

Sean Spicer’s recent press conference in which he states that Hitler never “stooped to the level of using chemical weapons on his own people” has caused mass outrage. Furthermore, instead of referring to the mass killing centers that were the hallmark of the destruction of more than six million European Jews as concentration camps, he […]

Sean Spicer is currently trending on Twitter, with Spicer’s comments about Adolf Hitler sending shockwaves throughout social media and beyond. As seen in the below video, Sean’s statement that even someone as despicable as Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons is causing outrage as a response from people who know that Hitler sent millions of Jewish […]

PewDiePie and U.S. President Donald Trump are waging an exhausting war against the “motherf***er” media, according to Polygon. YouTube’s biggest star joins his fellow powerful public figure to give the press the middle finger, literally. summary of the day @pewdiepie pic.twitter.com/09oydPpmmr — SHOUQ (@septicshou) March 9, 2017 PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, made […]

A French Holocaust historian was detained for over 10 hours at the George Bush International Airport at Houston earlier this week. Henry Rousso, who specializes in World War II and the post-war era, was visiting the United States in order to participate in a discussion at Texas A&M University, but was detained by U.S. Custom […]

French historian Henry Rousso, one of the world’s most pre-eminent scholars of the Holocaust, says that he was held for 10 hours at Houston International Airport and threatened with deportation. According to a report from BBC News, the incident was “due to a visa misunderstanding.” I confirm. I have been detained 10 hours at Houston […]

Amazon is facing backlash after the revelation that the publishing giant sells several books that suggest the Holocaust did not happen. These titles are penned by authors who argue that the terrifying regime is a mere hoax. Amazon Prime members even have the option to receive some of the books through fast shipping. Some of […]

Although there are many negative headlines currently being instigated by Trump, the Muslim ban is not the only reason Trump’s administration is raising eyebrows. For example, the presence of Steve Bannon as Trump’s sidekick has at least one senator questioning the judgment used surrounding the Holocaust Remembrance Day White House official statement. On Saturday, January […]

Google is being called out for promoting websites that claim the Holocaust never happened, and the criticism is turning into a PR nightmare. But Google now says that the company is thinking deeply about ways to improve searches on the topic. But all of this brings up the bigger question about content on the web […]

Holocaust on ice: Tatiana Navka, wife of Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, delivers a Holocaust-themed ice skating routine—and people are not happy. The Holocaust in Nazi Germany has been a sore topic ever since, as it is one of the most sensitive and brutal events in the history of the world. This is why you […]

According to an official review that was published on Tuesday, tens of thousands of war crime suspects were possibly able to continue receiving disability pensions, despite a law that was passed almost two decades ago that ordered them to be revoked. Only 99 people lost their payments. The Labor Ministry commissioned the review and posted […]

A 2014 study published in Earth’s Future found that it will only take the detonation of 100 nuclear warheads to throw five teragrams of black soot into Earth’s stratosphere and block out the sun for over a quarter century, temporarily destroying much of the ozone layer in the process. This alone, without the added lethality […]

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, ever since he came to power earlier in June this year, has incited anger on several occasions for his unabashed war on drugs. His unprecedented crackdown on drug users has seen the police force employ the controversial “knock and plead” policy of visiting suspected drug users at their homes and inviting […]

Pope Francis made a historic visit to the former Nazi concentration camp known as Auschwitz this week, where he walked the grounds and took everything in. During the visit, he prayed over various parts of the camp and talked to former prisoners. Pope Francis’ visit to this part of Germany is something only two previous […]

A Jewish tunnel used by prisoners to escape the Nazi extermination pits in World War II has been found by a team of international researchers. The team was able to pinpoint the location of the legendary tunnel in Lithuania by using advanced imaging technology. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday that the Jewish tunnel […]

Joseph Hirt, a Pennsylvania man who claimed to have survived the Holocaust, as well as claimed to have met track and field star Jesse Owens and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, admitted Friday that they were all lies, The Guardian is reporting. The 86-year-old man confessed his falsehoods in a letter to a local paper. “I […]

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently slammed Iran for holding a Holocaust cartoon contest, which he says Iran denies and mocks the Holocaust while it plans another Holocaust against the Jews. Iran holds an international Holocaust cartoon contest, which some claim denies that the Nazi genocide of millions of Jews ever happened. According to the […]

Kim Kardashian has slammed the Wall Street Journal for publishing an ad promoting Armenian Genocide denial website FactCheckArmenia.com on the international Armenian Genocide remembrance day last week. The full-page ad was paid for by Turkic Platform and features a leading statement of “Truth = Peace” and an explanation of the genocide remembrance day as a […]

Officials at a New Jersey high school have gone on record to express their anger and disappointment over a shocking photo of several of their high school students playing a drinking game dubbed “Jews vs. Nazis.” The photo surfaced on social media and has raised concern in the district about anti-Semitism. The image was captured […]

Guinness World Records confirmed on Friday that a 112-year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor who lives in Haifa, Israel, is the world’s oldest living man. Israel Kristal was born on September 15, 1903, to an orthodox Jewish family near the town of Zarnow, Poland. He lived through World War I and survived World War II in the […]

In a German court right now, a 94-year-old man named Reinhold Hanning will listen to the testimony of survivors from the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz, where the former guard allegedly helped kill 170,000 people. Hanning’s trial for his involvement in the genocide started Thursday. In his youth, he was an SS sergeant and helped to […]

Following the death of 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide of Japan, the Gerontology Research Group has labeled a 112-year-old Holocaust Survivor as the world’s oldest living man. Yisrael Kristal, born in 1903 in Zarnov, Poland, is an Israeli Holocaust survivor, and once the Gerontology organization’s research is validated by Mr. Kristal’s documents, he will be the oldest […]

Time is running out for the last surviving Nazi war criminals to be brought to justice. Hubert Zafke, 95, is one of them, among perhaps a dozen more cases in various stages of investigation. For Holocaust survivors and their children, that men like Zafke have waited decades for their role in the murder of 1.1 […]

The controversy over the plight of Syrian refugees seeking asylum in Europe and the United States incidentally sparked a debate on social media after some users circulated a claim that the Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family had sought asylum in the United States but were denied entry. Annelies Marie Frank (June 12, 1929 […]

After the terrifying attacks by DAESH, or ISIS, the Paris terrorist attack video has earned some very extreme reactions from some people. Some are already pointing the finger at Muslim immigrants coming from Syria, but WWE Hall Of Famer Sunny shocked many fans with her not-so-sunny Facebook comments, which called for another Holocaust. This time, […]

Ben Carson is turning out to be more like Donald Trump every day — that’s food for criticism for Democrats, who think Carson is a right-wing lunatic. However, it’s great news for Carson’s supporters, who want him to clinch the Republican nomination for the presidential race. BBC News talks about his latest controversial words. “Retired […]

Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu has blamed the Palestinians for inspiring Hitler to commit the Holocaust in their worry that fleeing Jews would come to British-controlled Palestine. Netanyahu, while still blaming Hitler for pulling the direct causal trigger on the Holocaust by authorising it, he goes on to say that the Holocaust might never have happened […]

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is refusing to back down following controversial comments he made this week, suggesting that the Holocaust would have been “diminished” had Jews in Nazi Germany had guns, ABC News is reporting. Speaking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday, Carson discussed the topic of gun control in the wake of the […]

Model, TV personality, and controversial social media figure Tila Tequila was booted from the UK reality TV series Celebrity Big Brother on Friday. According to Gossip Cop, Tila was kicked off the series due to disturbing comments that strongly suggested sympathy for Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, and anti-Semitism. Gossip Cop said that Tequila made a […]

Resisting criticism from across the political spectrum, GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says he won’t apologize for using a Holocaust reference to claim that the Iran nuke deal negotiated by a team headed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for the Obama administration will march Israel to “the door of the oven.” Huckabee stood […]

Oskar Groening, a 94-year old German man and former SS guard, has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the death camp, in what could perhaps be described as one of the last Holocaust trials to take place. Does sentencing a 94 year old man […]

Oskar Groening was a former SS soldier for the Nazi’s during World War II. His duty was working as a bookkeeper at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1944. His role was to remove all the cash that Jewish prisoners had on them when they arrived at the concentration camp. He would then […]