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Tobacco industry dying? Not so fast, says Stanford expert

The cigarette industry is not dying. It continues to reap unimaginable profits. It's still winning lawsuits. And cigarettes still kill millions every year.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

US Holocaust museum to put records online

The US Holocaust museum has teamed up with Internet genealogy site Ancestry.com to provide online information about those who were persecuted by the Nazis, the museum said.

Technology / Internet

created May 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Holocaust historical data goes digital

(AP) -- The world's largest collection of Holocaust documents is going digital.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Auschwitz memorial launches Facebook page

(AP) -- The memorial museum at Auschwitz has launched a Facebook page, hoping that the popular social networking site will help it reach young people around the globe and engage them in discussions about the former Nazi ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

War, genocide 'difficult knowledge' to teach younger students

Whether they're found in a museum or a textbook, historical narratives about traumatic events such as war and genocide are better left to older students, who have typically developed a more refined historical ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Wordless Holocaust memories speak truths for today

The Holocaust has shaped discourse on collective, social and cultural memory, serving both as touchstone and paradigm, according to a study published this month in the journal Memory Studies, published by SAGE.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If not for the Holocaust, there could have been 32 million Jews in the world today

If it were not for the Holocaust, the number of Jews in the world would likely today be at least 26 million, and perhaps even as much as 32 million, says Prof. Sergio DellaPergola of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1