Ireland, Israel and boycotts
Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide to describe Nazi Germany’s attempt to wipe out entire racial groups
The Holocaust
Stories related to the genocide of European Jews during the second World war
‘My father thought my grandfather died in the Holocaust. It was all a lie’
Director László Nemes’s traumatic family history has informed his twisty drama set in Budapest after the second World War
Secondary students to learn more about ‘brutal reality’ of Holocaust
Government to provide €100,000 to the Auschwitz Birkenau Foundation to support its education programme
Irish ignorance about the Holocaust isn’t new but social media has supercharged it
Instead of censorship, we have an abundance of distortion, lies and denial, as history, or what purports to be history, is weaponised
Almost one in 10 young Irish adults believe Holocaust is a ‘myth’
Survey finds 18 per cent believe number of people killed was greatly exaggerated
‘A beacon of hope’: Tributes paid to the late Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank
The Holocaust survivor, who has died aged 96, was praised by King Charles as a person he ‘admired deeply’
Holocaust survivor, jeweller and table tennis maestro: Ireland’s oldest man dies aged 107
Josef ‘Joe’ Veselsky, who fled Czechoslovakia in 1948 after surviving the war, was Trinity’s oldest student in his 90s
A ‘cog’ in the Nazi engine: Why the story of chancellor Friedrich Merz’s grandfather matters
Might Merz, by sharing his family history and encouraging others to engage with their family past, help prevent Germany from sliding again into political extremism?
Mark O’Connell: You’re not on the right side of history – there is no right side
‘History’ has become final arbiter of rights and wrongs, a secular ‘you better get right with Jesus’
Seeing Israel use hunger as a weapon of war is monstrous to me as someone with a Holocaust legacy
Deliberate starvation of an entire people is a monstrous strategy, openly endorsed by cabinet members - horrifying, illegal and counter to Jewish morality and collective memory
Eerie silence in Bundestag as far-right AfD sees chink of light
Opposition accepts AfD support for hot-button migration proposal
I am tired of explaining Michael D Higgins’s words to incredulous English people
Criticism in the UK that should be limited to the President is spilling over as some go on the offensive, making sweeping generalisations about Ireland’s entire national character
Auschwitz survivors mark 80th anniversary of camp’s liberation
‘Last milestone anniversary’ will see political leaders, including Taoiseach Micheál Martin, listening to survivors’ voices rather than making speeches
Holocaust, the 1978 TV series that helped Germany break the silence about its past
As the world remembers the Holocaust, some Germans see a period ahead that echoes the widespread amnesia in the postwar period
‘I’m appalled we’re going through senseless anti-Semitism again,’ says survivor of Auschwitz women’s orchestra
Television: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, powerful BBC documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of 99-year-old cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
President Higgins ‘rightly’ referenced Gaza war in Holocaust speech, says Simon Harris
Several protesters walked out of President Michael D Higgins’s speech marking Holocaust Memorial Day
Holocaust survivor: ‘I saw normal people in Auschwitz and I saw sadists there who killed people’
As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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