Holocaust

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Why we make no compromise with Holocaust denial

The left faces a challenging battle in the fight against allegations of antisemitism over coming months. The attacks did not end with Labour’s election defeat or Jeremy Corbyn’s departure as leader. Indeed, the probusiness and pro-imperialist wing of the party is stepping up its onslaught. This is an attack that extends to the entire left....
05 October 2020
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The killing fields of capitalism

How should we define mass violence, such as that against the Rohingya? Rob Ferguson raises questions about the terms ethnic cleansing and genocide.
27 October 2017
Reviews & Culture

Destination Unknown

This film is made up of the testimonies of 12 survivors. Each one is told in their old age, sometimes alongside pictures of them in their youths. For example, Roman Ferber recognises himself in footage of Auschwitz, a small boy in striped uniform looking through barbed wire. Others manage to recover photographs of their families....
29 May 2017
Socialist Review Archive

One has the duty to speak out

Simon Guy and Rob Ferguson spoke to Leslie Baruch Brent, who fled Nazi Germany as a child, about how quickly racist ideas can take hold and why it’s crucial we continue to challenge them today.
04 April 2017
Reviews & Culture

Denial

In 1992 a group of Jewish socialists came together to write an Anti Nazi league pamphlet, “Holocaust Denial: The New Nazi Lie”, in response to the rise of Holocaust deniers, and in particular the British Nazi, David Irving. The emergence of Holocaust Denial in the 1990s was not a coincidence. The British National Party (BNP)...
03 January 2017
Son of Saul
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Son of Saul

It is a truism for revolutionaries that people make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing. But what of the men, women and children who have history thrust upon them, with cataclysmic consequences for their own personal circumstances? Son of Saul tells the story of a man’s struggle to hold on...
29 April 2016
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Letters

Nazi psychology

Tom Kay’s article, Roots of the Holocaust (January SR), reminds us of the dangers of racism in a period of deepening crisis. He identifies the crisis of the petty-bourgeoisie as a key factor in the rise of anti-Semitism after the First World War. This crisis was rooted in the manner in which German capitalism developed...
30 January 2015
Eichmann on trial
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Legacy of Eichmann’s trial

To mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the BBC is showing a dramatisation of the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
06 January 2015
Esther Brunstein
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“I had to be strong”

Esther Brunstein is a survivor of the Holocaust. She spoke to Miriam Scharf about her socialist roots and the need to continue the fight against fascism.
06 January 2015
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw
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Remembering Poland’s hidden Jewish history

The opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw represents a milestone in confronting both the country's history and present day anti-Semitism, writes Andy Zebrowski.
06 January 2015
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Roots of the Holocaust

On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Tom Kay examines how anti-Semitism used by the German ruling class as a weapon against the workers' movement escalated into genocide.
06 January 2015
Victims of the Holocaust
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The Legacy of the Holocaust

As the Zionists’ use of the Holocaust to defend Israel’s racism and military aggression begins to falter, the need to insist on its universal lessons has become greater than ever.
02 September 2014
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A Day to Remember

The scale and methods of the Nazi genocide of Jewish people make it a politically unique event that deserves a special day of memorial.
01 January 2007