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Anne Frank and Her Family Were Also Denied Entry as Refugees to the U.S.
Historian Richard Breitman tracked the efforts of Anne Frank's family to seek refuge in the US while immigration rules and public attitudes towards immigrants were changing.
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Elahe Izadi
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Washington Post
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November 24, 2015
Who Owns Anne Frank?
The diary has been distorted by even her greatest champions. Would history have been better served if it had been destroyed?
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Cynthia Ozick
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The New Yorker
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September 28, 1997
Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust
Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.
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James McAuley
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The New Yorker
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September 18, 2022
America’s Dangerously Shallow Understanding of the Holocaust
It’s treated as an all-purpose symbol of evil, not a series of historical events to be reckoned with.
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Andrea Pitzer
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Vox
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May 4, 2017
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A Classic Christmas Movie Offers a Lesson About Antisemitism
Nazis play a key role as villain in American collective consciousness—but without broad understanding of antisemitism.
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Rebecca Brenner Graham
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Made By History
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December 21, 2023
The Millions We Failed to Save
The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.
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Ruth Franklin
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New York Review of Books
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June 1, 2023
Two Recent Movies Help Us Connect the Dots Between Jim Crow and Fascism
With Kanye and Kyrie Irving dominating the news, the connections between victims of white supremacy are more relevant than ever.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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Andscape
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November 22, 2022