Yom HaShoah: understanding genocide; reissuing Mein Kampf; Holocaust history

Can a holocaust be predicted? Understanding genocide

Is 'Mein Kampf' a learning tool, or too offensive and dangerous to reissue?

Holocaust history and the lost generation

"There was a straight road to Auschwitz," says Wendy Lower, a history professor at Claremont McKenna College in California. "When you look back, the Holocaust was inevitable." Lower, who spent five years living and researching in Germany, says that while genocides are all a bit different, there are consistent aspects to every mass killing. By leveraging history, she believes, one can almost predict these killings before they start. JNS.org speaks with experts for a picture of the common conditions that have led to genocide, warning signs for contemporary genocide, and actions that might prevent future large-scale atrocities. Read the full story here.

One publisher had to "suspend disbelief" when Canadian author Jerry Amernic floated the premise of a Holocaust novel set in the year 2039, when the public would be fairly ignorant and complacent about the Holocaust. That prompted Amernic to do a video on the subject, in which he interviewed university students in Toronto about the Holocaust and World War II. What they didn't know would, literally, fill a book. Read the full story here.