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Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

King pays tribute to Lily Ebert’s ‘resilience and courage’ and praises her work as writer and educator

Monarch leads tributes to Lily Ebert’s ‘extraordinary resilience and courage’ after her passing aged 100

Political operatives on the far right have long spoken about their ambition to shift the “Overton window”. The aim is to “mainstream” ideas long considered unthinkable, through gradual, step-by-step radicalisation and repetition – especially on hot-button issues such as immigration, sexuality, race and identity.

Each year, people visit museums and memorial sites as part of educational interventions organised around the remembrance of a genocide or an atrocity. Many schools visit a concentration camp as part of Holocaust education, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau. Others travel to memorial sites associated with other genocides, such as the massacre…

Republican nominee says attack – ‘one of the darkest days in all history’ – would not have happened if he were president

Salon spoke with a horror filmmaker and numerous Stanley Kubrick experts to discuss "The Shining"

To watch the mobile phone footage and hear the testimony of survivors is to have one’s own faith in humanity tested to the point of destruction. Parents murdered in front of their children. Women and girls raped as their family members were forced to watch, powerless to intercede. The elderly…

The former president claims to have never read Mein Kampf. But his use of blood and soil rhetoric is deliberate

There is a disturbing trend of people travelling to the sadder places of the world: sites of military attacks, war zones and disasters. Dark tourism is now a phenomenon, with its own website and dedicated tour guides. People visit these places to mourn, or to remember and honour the dead.…

Since last Oct. 7, the world has seen mass death catalyzed by terrorist attacks in Israel, Israel’s mission to recover hostages still being detained and retaliation in Gaza — and now a long-dreaded war erupting through the Middle East.