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The 2015 Yom HaShoah commemoration in Boston, Massachusetts, organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (courtesy)

7/25/2016

American Holocaust Survivors Struggle ‘To Finish in a Decent Way’

While new funding will help provide essential services to aging survivors, the community’s expanding needs go increasingly unmet by existing resources.

By The Times of Israel

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6/29/2016

Keeping “Mein Kampf” Royalties for Holocaust-Related Programs

By Judy Bolton-Fasman

Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

6/29/2016 Top Pick

Reversing Course, ‘Mein Kampf’ Publisher Will Support Holocaust Survivors

Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will donate proceeds from Adolf Hitler’s manifesto to a Waltham-based organization that aids aging Holocaust survivors.

By The Boston Globe

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6/2/2016

Letters: ‘Mein Kampf’ Proceeds Ought to Go Exclusively to Holocaust Education

It is important to keep “Mein Kampf” in print for teaching and learning purposes, and we support Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in doing so; however, we believe that the publisher...

By The Boston Globe

A copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (dccarbone/CC-BY, via Flickr)

5/31/2016

‘Mein Kampf’ Royalties Plan Roils Boston’s Jews

Eighty years after purchasing the English rights to Hitler’s manifesto, publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is under fire for directing profits away from Holocaust-specific causes.

By The Times of Israel

(Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

5/23/2016

Issues Surrounding the Publication of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”

Former City Council President Michael Ross, whose father is a Holocaust survivor, takes up some of the highly sensitive issues surrounding the publication of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”

By WGBH News

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5/9/2016

Editorial: Do Not Confuse Fighting Anti-Semitism with Tolerating Diversity

The obvious objection is that profits from the literally seminal text of the Holocaust should be used to educate the world about Hitler’s Final Solution and to ensure it...

By The Jewish Advocate

A copy of ‘Mein Kampf,’ on display at the Documentation Center in Nuremburg, Germany, Nov. 4, 2012. (RUSS JUSKALIAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES)

5/9/2016

Opinion: Keeping ‘Mein Kampf’ in Print

We preserve “Mein Kampf” in the spirit of remembering; we study it in the hope of securing a brighter future for humanity.

By The Boston Globe

Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is published by Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (LANE TURNER/GLOBE STAFF)

5/6/2016

Boston Publisher Grapples with ‘Mein Kampf’ Profits

What do you do with the devil’s lucre? That’s the question Boston-based publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has been grappling with for more than 80 years, as it has quietly...

By The Boston Globe

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