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Apr 17, 2020, 5:11 AM

Peretz Revesz, unsung Holocaust hero: Part 3

A photograph from the memoir of Peretz Revesz "Standing Up To Evil" published by Yad Vashem. Source: Yad Vashem Publications

Part Three: From Summer 1944 through the Soviet Conquest of Budapest and after During the Holocaust, Jewish activists in Slovakia and Hungary as well as across much of Nazi occupied territories in Europe and North Africa, displayed courage, ingenuity and...

Apr 16, 2020, 8:03 AM

Peretz Revesz, unsung Holocaust hero: Part 2

Part Two: Confronting the Full Force of Destruction – Spring 1944 During the Holocaust there were many Jews who acted at great risk to themselves to help save fellow Jews in danger. Many of these figures are relatively unknown to...

Apr 14, 2020, 5:07 AM

Peretz Revesz, unsung Holocaust hero: Part 1

In this blog and in two subsequent posts, I address the figure Peretz Revesz and how he helped save fellow Jews in Hungary during the Holocaust. Part One: From Slovakian Zionist Youth leader to Hungarian Rescue Activist I never actually met...

Jan 21, 2020, 1:10 AM

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Remembering the Holocaust and fighting anti-Semitism without politics

Poland's decision to skip this week's World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem over not being invited to speak is most regrettable

Jun 20, 2019, 7:52 PM

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What exactly is a concentration camp, AOC?

Prisoners at forced labor building the Dove-Elbe canal in Germany, 1941-42. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of KZ-Gedenkstatte Neuengamme)

The prison camps the lawmaker referenced were many things, but they were not detention or internment camps in a classic sense

May 15, 2019, 4:36 PM

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Rashida Tlaib, you’ve got the history all wrong

Jubilant residents celebrate in Tel Aviv with what would become the Israeli flag after the United Nations decision to approve the partition of Palestine, November 29, 1947. (Hans Pins/Israeli Government Press Office via Getty Images)

When you distort the historical record, you block sincere efforts at peace -- for, no, Israel was not a consolation prize for Jews after the Holocaust

Sep 22, 2018, 10:47 PM

Commemorating the Murder of Jews, Avoiding Responsibility

There is a strong trend in Hungary today to present the destruction of Hungarian Jewry during the Holocaust as an exclusively German crime and, except for a small group of Hungarian thugs, to ignore the role and responsibility of...

Apr 23, 2017, 5:09 PM

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‘It wasn’t us’: The battle for memory and history

Hungarian Jews arriving at Auschwitz. (Courtesy)

Nations that helped carry out the Holocaust are revising history to recast themselves as victims and rescuers

Jul 4, 2016, 1:07 AM

Elie Wiesel – Some Personal Thoughts

The first time I heard Prof. Elie Wiesel speak was in the Reform Synagogue in Westfield, NJ sometime during my last year in high school in 1973-1974. Already at that time he was a well-known personality and I greatly...

Jul 1, 2016, 6:58 AM

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The Holocaust in an age of genocide

One can't truly understand any mass extermination attempt without a deep and broad grasp on the Nazis' Final Solution

About Me

Dr. Robert Rozett is Senior Historian in the International Institute for Holocaust Research a Yad Vashem, is the author of Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front (Yad Vashem, 2013), and co-editor with Dr. Iael Nidam Orvieto of After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters after Liberation (Yad Vashem, 2016).