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Are Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims the world’s ‘least wanted’ people?
Abu Tahay, a Rohingya Muslim activist who lives in Myanmar, says his people face a simple calculus when deciding whether to remain in their western Myanmar homes or escape via the Andaman Sea on overcrowded, hopelessly equipped fishing boats: “Do — or die.”
With fewer survivors around, Holocaust education is in transition
On a recent morning, a group of seventh-graders in Natick, Massachusetts, was absorbed in a video of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s acceptance speech of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
U.S. Holocaust museum gets $25 million gift, largest in its history
An Arizona family is donating $25 million to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum — the largest gift in the Washington museum’s history — to increase its educational programming.
U.S. Holocaust museum returns barracks to Auschwitz
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has returned a section of wooden barracks that was given on long-term loan by the Auschwitz museum 24 years ago.
Jonathan Safran Foer Named to Holocaust Memorial Council
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer was appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. President Obama tapped Foer, 35, also a New York University professor of creative writing, last Friday.
Briefs: Scholars call for American Shoah heroes honors, civil marriage coming to Israel
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