How the Holocaust is remembered

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Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SUBSCRIBE to TIME Magazine January 30, 2020 By Lily Rothman As of this week, it's been 75 years since the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz—a span of time during which many in Germany and across the world have attempted to confront the Nazi horrors that were committed during World War II. But even as the world has used the anniversary as a moment to listen to Holocaust survivors speak about what they suffered, and what must be done so that it never happens again, the question of how to remember that time is not yet fully settled. As historian Jacob S. Eder wrote for TIME History this week, even if the country's history books consider it resolved, individuals and towns in Germany are still debating how to address that past. Click here to read more. Here's more of the history that made news this week: HISTORY ON TIME.COM The Wargame That Revealed a Nazi U-Boat Tactic Allied forces were stumped — until a retired British naval officer designed a game to reveal the German strategy The Battle Over the History of India's Constitution Left-wing protesters and right-wing Hindu nationalists are each claiming the legacy of B.R. Ambedkar, the author of India's constitution How Do We Remember Victims of Mass Murder? For families whose members have survived genocide or other forms of mass murder, remembrance is private and visceral, writes Helen Epstein, a Holocaust survivor's daughter Revisiting an Auschwitz Memoir, 75 Years After Liberation When Eddy de Wind wrote 'Last Stop Auschwitz,' he was driven to let others know what he had suffered. How could that emotion be translated? Column: Do Morals Ever Matter in American Foreign Policy? From Truman to Trump, Harvard Professor Joseph S. Nye on whether presidents have followed morals in America's foreign policy FROM THE TIME VAULT Today in 1956: The Missile “So far, official announcements about the missile program have been brief and vague. Glenn L. Martin Co. revealed recently, for instance, that it will build a $5,000,000 plant, undoubtedly for missiles, near Denver. Shortly after such bits of news are made public, a bolt of industrial lightning strikes the locality mentioned. A cornfield or patch of desert blossoms with bulldozers; roads and railroads unroll; a great, blank-looking building grows like a hard-shelled mushroom; odd and often monstrous machines arrive on flatcars and trailer-trucks. Houses are hammered together in new residential areas, and a new breed of men move into town. They speak a novel language, using words like ‘parameter,’ ‘lox,’ ‘apogee’ ‘and’ ‘servo.’ They join in the life of the local community, but remain people apart, given to sudden silences. These are the missile people, high technologists all.” (Jan. 23, 1956) Read the full story Today in 1939: Medical Historian Henry E. Sigerist “Last week a Gallup poll on voluntary health insurance indicated that some 25,000,000 persons largely in the group earning over $980 a year would be willing to pay $3 a month for complete medical and hospital care. Only representative poll taken among doctors was last year when Modern Medicine asked its readership whether they favored use of public funds to provide medical care for low income groups. Over 16,000 doctor-readers replied of whom 54% said yes. No medical politician, Dr. Sigerist has never plunged into the bitter medical battles that rage in Chicago and Washington. But as a No. 1 Medical Historian who is convinced that history spirals toward socialization, Henry Sigerist has a big intellectual influence at this time when the U. S. Government is taking socialized medicine seriously." (Jan. 30, 1939) Read the full story Today in 1933: Noël Coward “Noël Coward is conceded to be the cleverest of living English dramatists. Some go further, advancing the premise that in the last hundred years only Disraeli, Wilde and Shaw have started from nothing and conquered England as Mr. Coward has conquered. Few indeed are the aspiring playwrights who would not give their eye teeth to be in Noël Coward's tan buckskin shoes. Aged 33, he has written or collaborated on 23 plays and musicomedies since 1920. One out of three have been huge successes. At one time he had five of his works running in London during a single season, a record equaled only by the late Edgar Wallace.” (Jan. 30, 1933) Read the full story HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE WEB On the Case The Washington Post Magazine has a fascinating excerpt from Debbie Cenziper’s book Citizen 865, about how the U.S. Justice Department tracked down men who’d served at a Nazi training camp who were “hiding in plain sight” in the U.S. A Matter of Faith The Salt Lake Tribune’s Mormon Land podcast takes a historical look at a key element in Latter-day Saint religious belief: the story of Joseph Smith’s 1820 encounter with God. Good Enough to Eat At Wired, Laura Mallonee uses an exhibition currently on view in London as a jumping-off point for a journey—with pictures!—through the history of food photography. On Ice Ryan Delaney at NPR reports on the NHL’s black hockey history mobile museum, and how it’s shedding new light on the oft-overlooked story of diversity in the sport. Digging Deep Which archaeological discoveries of the 2010s most changed our understanding of human history? Claire Selvin at ARTnews rounds up answers from nine historians. To Unsubscribe Unsubscribe here if you do not want to receive this newsletter. Update Email Click here to update your email address. Privacy Policy Please read our Privacy Policy. TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. For Further Communication Please email history@time.com TIME USA, LLC 3 Bryant Park New York, NY 10036 Connect with TIME Find TIME on Facebook Follow TIME on Twitter Subscribe to more TIME Newsletters Get TIME on your Mobile Device Get TIME on your iPad Subscribe to RSS Feed