Holocaust

Rise of Holocaust denial driven by pernicious, AI-driven social media

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Originally published by The Free Press. As the algorithmic age takes Holocaust denial mainstream, historians must admit a bitter defeat. When the two of us met at Harvard 15 years ago, one was a professor teaching modern history, and the other was an undergraduate interested in the future of artificial intelligence. The elder of us … Read more

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem born in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shares story

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In the final months of World War II, Lola Kantorovich did her best to hide her pregnancy. It worked, almost to the end, because most of the prisoners in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had stomachs bloated and distended from prolonged hunger. When she went into labor, in March 1945, the Russians were advancing through Germany, … Read more