#concentration-camp

#concentration-camp

A small army of backhoes, earthmovers, garbage trucks, pickups and police cars rolled out of Corie Court in Central San Jose Monday afternoon, after crews spent hours working to clear out a major homeless encampment along Coyote Creek.The city-led effort focused on moving out hundreds of homeless people who live near the creek bed.

The Anne Frank House, pictured in 2018, was the target of an antisemitic projection this week.Patrick van Katwijk/AP Antisemitic text implying that Anne Frank's diary was a forgery was projected onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam this week, the museum announced in a statement."The Anne Frank House organisation has learned of this with shock and revulsion," the museum said.

Cara De Silva, a journalist and historian of food and culinary culture who in 1996 edited a groundbreaking collection of recipes amassed by prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp, which became a surprise hit, died on Dec. 7 in Manhattan.She was 83.Her close friend and fellow food writer Fred Plotkin said that the death, at a hospital, came after a very brief illness, but that the exact cause had not been determined.

A teacher has been hired to tell pupils the story of a Scottish woman who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust after refusing to abandon Jewish girls in her care.Jane Haining, from Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway, was a Christian matron at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, Hungary, in the 1930s where more than 400 girls of mostly Jewish background were studying.

We really need a reset, said the journalist and author Matthew Syed, on Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday, discussing his and his wife Kathy Weeks' book, What Do You Think?We need to fight for open inquiry and respectful disagreement  Attack the argument, attack the ball rather than the person.A pile-on shuts down the open inquiry which is so important.

Labour has slapped down MP Clive Lewis for claiming the Government was adopting a concentration camp policy towards migrants.Rishi Sunak set out plans to house migrants in disused holiday camps, surplus military barracks and former student halls of residence.Mr Lewis told the BBC: Let's be really clear here: my understanding is if you put a group of people concentrated into a camp  as you did in South Africa in the Boer War  it's what you call a concentration camp.