Franz Roselbach, a Roma survivor of the Holocaust who was sent to Auschwitz when he was 15, attends a ceremony at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 2006.
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Many young people today know little about the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, and even less about the murder of Romani communities.
The Boerneplatz synagogue in flames on Nov. 10, 1938, during the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ in Frankfurt, Germany.
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The violence of the 1938 pogrom against Jews in Nazi Germany known as Kristallnacht was a turning point in Hitler’s ‘Final Solution.’
Right-wing Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir has a long history of anti-Palestinian efforts.
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A claim about how persecuted Jews were freed from the Soviet Union decades ago relates to how Palestinians might be treated today.
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is arrested by Israeli security forces for resisting efforts to shut down a synagogue in the Me’a She’arim neighborhood in Jerusalem, April 17, 2020.
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Persecution is central to Jewish collective memory. So when armed police entered ultra-Orthodox areas of Jerusalem to close synagogues due to COVID-19, some residents reacted with fear and suspicion.
Roma or Sinti girl imprisoned in Auschwitz. Pictures taken by the SS for their files.
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Up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
Kamp Westerbork.
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Social status and location affected Dutch Jews’ chances of survival.