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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, speaks to students at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum on Thursday. Lipstadt explained the motivating factors behind Holocaust denial and detailed her own legal battle with Holocaust denier David Irving.

Historian Deborah Lipstadt speaks about Holocaust denial, alternative facts

May 5, 2017

Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt explained the dangers of Holocaust denial and encouraged students to combat “alternative facts” during a talk Thursday. About 150 people gathered at the McCormick...

Trachtenberg: As Jewish community faces challenges, Holocaust-denying professor has no place at NU

April 28, 2017

Monday marked an occasion called Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust Remembrance Day for communities throughout the world to honor the 11 million innocent Jews, Roma, Poles, mentally disabled and LGBTQ people —...

Schwartz: In light of Trump’s immigration ban, we must take a lesson from the Holocaust

January 29, 2017

International Holocaust Remembrance Day has two pretty straightforward objectives: to remember the victims of the Nazis and to educate ourselves with the intention of preventing genocides from happening...

Author and Holocaust survivor Ava Kadishson Schieber speaks at Fiedler Hillel about her new book, “Present Past.” Schieber launched the collection of stories, artwork and poetry that describe her life after the Holocaust at an event  Sunday.

Holocaust survivor discusses new book on life after war at Fiedler Hillel

October 16, 2016

Author and artist Ava Kadishson Schieber’s first painting after surviving the Holocaust was of a whirlpool. “If I could paint it out, I could face it,” Schieber told The Daily. “That was how...

Jessica Kingsdale

Northwestern alumna to appear in play about Holocaust survivors

April 20, 2016

A&E Jessica Kingsdale (Communication ‘11),  who had extended relatives who died during the Holocaust, said the story of the tragedy is twofold: the atrocities people faced during the war and the...

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