Great piece here w/ @joeeggers.bsky.social about the Saving Our Signs project in the #USA, working to preserve the signs at national parks/monuments being removed by the DT regime to deny #history & groups of people related to #humanRights. thesocietypages.org/holocaust-ge...

I'm proud of the work I've been doing with @umnchgs.bsky.social in Namibia, working with local groups to collect and share oral testimonies on the legacies of the 1904 genocide of the Herero and Nama. Here's one of our recordings. #namibia #genocide #digitalstorytelling

"A few academics resisted and were dismissed, exiled or executed. Most did not." theconversation.com/universities...

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence

Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.

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Join us next Monday for our 2025 International Holocaust Remembrance Day lecture from Sarah Cramsey. Her talk, titled "The Other Holocaust: Care, Children, and the Jewish Catastrophe," will be virtual and open to the public The program begins at noon. Learn more and register at z.umn.edu/cramsey

Ask me about my shocked face. www.salon.com/2025/01/21/i...

"It was a Nazi salute": Historian dismisses claim that Musk's raised arm was mere "awkward gesture"

"Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too," wrote NYU's Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Thanks to archivist Kate Dietrick and student Ryken Farr, our Center and UMJA were able to correct the historical record for Jeannette Frank. Their work confirmed Jeannette survived the Holocaust and settled in MN. This gives agency back to her story of survival. thesocietypages.org/holocaust-ge...