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Encore: Suburban Philadelphia school district accused of stigmatizing LGBTQ students

A suburban Philadelphia school district has issued rules about what books can go in its libraries and what posters can be placed on classroom walls. Critics say the rules stigmatize LGBTQ students.

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves a House GOP conference meeting in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 25, 2023.

Rep. George Santos voluntarily steps down from House committee assignments

Multiple GOP lawmakers tell NPR that embattled New York Republican Rep. George Santos has voluntarily recused himself from serving on committees temporarily.

Police in Bloomfield, N.J. are looking for the suspect who hurled a Molotov cocktail at the entrance of a synagogue early Sunday morning. Surveillance video shows him wearing a ski mask and skull and crossbones top.

The FBI has arrested a man suspected of firebombing a New Jersey synagogue

After a three-day search, officials have taken a 26-year-old into custody, saying he "maliciously" attempted to destroy Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield. The state is no stranger to antisemitic threats.

Two young German-Jewish refugees at the porthole of the liner St. Louis finally arrive at Antwerp, after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior to the start of World War II.

Opinion: A Holocaust remembrance — and lessons we have yet to learn

NPR's Scott Simon wonders why teaching children about the Holocaust is not mandatory in most states and the lessons they are missing.

Walter Arlen was born Walter Aptowitzer in 1920 in Vienna. He is now 102.

Forensic musicologists race to rescue works lost after the Holocaust

The Exilarte Center in Vienna is the world's leading research institution devoted to preserving the work of composers such as Walter Arlen and others, who were exiled or killed during the Holocaust.

U.S. second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, lays wreaths honoring Holocaust victims at the former Auschwitz site on Friday in Oswiecim, Poland.

Second gentleman Emhoff visits Auschwitz, part of a push against antisemitism

Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, is in Poland and Germany to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and address rising antisemitism around the world.

Her ancestors survived the Holocaust. She returns to Germany to reclaim her identity

In an excerpt from the podcast Memory Wars, a descendant of Holocaust survivors takes back her heritage by moving to her ancestral homeland in Germany.

King Willem-Alexander puts a stone in an act of remembrance when unveiling a new monument in the heart of Amsterdam's historic Jewish Quarter on Sept. 19, 2021, honoring the 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust.

Survey shows a lack of Holocaust awareness in the country that was home to Anne Frank

The survey commissioned by a U.S.-based group found that the number of Dutch respondents who believe the Holocaust is a myth was higher than in any of the other five nations previously surveyed.

Rich Osthoff and Sapphire, a pit bull who he said saved his life. Osthoff told NPR that Rep. George Santos launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $3,000 for a surgery for the dog in 2016 â and then kept the money.

His dog was dying, and he needed help. He says he ended up swindled by George Santos

Rich Osthoff told NPR that Santos — who went by Anthony Devolder — set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for the veteran's dog in 2016. Santos never delivered the cash. The dog died months later.

This handout negative dated on April 20, 1943, and taken by Polish firefighter Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski shows Jewish people being evacuated from the Warsaw Ghetto.

A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found

The photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a 23-year-old Polish firefighter as the Nazis were brutally crushing the Jewish uprising of 1943. The photos were discovered in a family collection.

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