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A Sunny Day in Auschwitz

Avrum Rosensweig | Posted 06.19.2012 | Canada
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Avrum Rosensweig

It was a cool spring day, and the sunlight shone kindly down on Auschwitz. Beyond the barbed wire, villagers walked briskly to church in their Sunday finest. Eva walked in queue with the other women and children toward "the showers," a place the adults knew was the gas chamber. They were 200 meters away.

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Could the Internet Have Stopped the Holocaust?

Avi Benlolo | Posted 06.19.2012 | Canada
Read More: Social Media Holocaust, Holocaust, Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance, Twitter Revolution, Remembrance Holocaust, Video, Canada News
Avi Benlolo

Thursday is Holocaust Remembrance Day. While governments knew about the Holocaust, many kept the details hidden from their citizens. Had the digital age existed and had enough individuals been encouraged by mass social activism, one hopes the outcome would have been different.

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