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January 2026

January 24, 2026

What about the Holocaust-denying Republicans?

The numbers are concerning, to say the least, in a poll released last month by...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

Why the Holocaust isn’t just one genocide among many

So over the weekend (as part of my overall effort to blog more often) I...

November 25, 2023

Generic-ifying the Holocaust

Yeah, actually I'm not sure of the best way to label this as I try...

January 2022

January 31, 2022

On Maus, Book-Banning, and Common Sense

What is the most appropriate book for middle schoolers to read to learn about the...

January 23, 2020

What do Americans know about the Holocaust? Some observations

Yesterday Pew, or specifically the Religion and Public Life arm of the Pew Research Center,...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

A tale of two memorials

The other day, a tweet came across my feed, in the form of a retweet:...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, and Germans in Buczacz: Anatomy of a Genocide by Omer Barton

Readers of a certain age may remember the splash Daniel Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners made...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

More “Holocaust Education” isn’t the fix for antisemitism

Back a couple weeks ago, a new poll showed that Americans displayed, well, undesirably-low levels...

April 12, 2018

What about the new Holocaust poll?

The headline is dramatic: 66% of Millennials don't know what Auschwitz was, and 22% don't...

April 06, 2017

Holocaust, Memory, and Memoir

I just finished a Holocaust memoir, The Seamstress, by Sara Tuvel Bernstein with Louise Loots...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Who writes Holocaust memoirs?

How many Holocaust survivor narratives have you read? I can think of: Night Clara's War...

February 2017

February 18, 2017

Holocaust and Survival (or, Auschwitz vs. Babi Yar)

About 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust. This figure is sometimes cited as "between...

February 08, 2017

The Holocaust and “what happened next”

If this were any other subject than what it is, this post would be perfect...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

5 myths about the Holocaust

Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which generated a lot of "Trump = Hitler" tweets....

January 22, 2017

An “America First” hypothetical

What does "never again" mean? We use this phrase to signal a determination not to...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

75 years ago

well, 75 years ago yesterday, when I meant to write about it, was the start...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Per the UN, and also observed by the EU, and many European countries, it commemorates...

October 2015

October 10, 2015

Could armed Jews have stopped the Holocaust?

Yes, and no, and "depends on what the meaning of 'stopping the Holocaust' is." If...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Slate gets it wrong on the Holocaust

OK, one might say, "Timothy Snyder gets it wrong on the Holocaust" but no one...

August 2015

August 01, 2015

From the library: Ravensbruck, by Sarah Helm

Subtitled, "Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women" There's a lot in this...

July 2014

July 15, 2014

Parking a link: teaching “critical thinking” via Holocaust denial

This comes via Joanne Jacobs, though it's being reported elsewhere, too: 8th graders in the...

June 2014

June 11, 2014

From the library: How Could This Happen, Explaining the Holocaust, by Dan McMillan

(This is a sort of post that I haven't written in a while, in which...