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Critics of Trump’s US Holocaust Memorial Council firings run the risk of trivializing the cataclysm

JL;DR SUMMARY Menachem Z. Rosensaft, a former member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, critiques the reaction to Donald Trump's firing of several Biden appointees from the council. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Donald TrumpHolocaust MemorialHolocaust EducationDouglas EmhoffStuart EizenstatPolitical AppointmentsUs Holocaust Memorial CouncilHolocaust RhetoricCouncil Firing ControversyHolocaust And Memory

Places mentioned

Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"In April, after Trump removed him from the council, which oversees the operations of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C."
New York City, New York, United States
"the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City"
Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
"and the Documentation Centre at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany"
Israel
"institutions around the world that share this responsibility, including Yad Vashem in Israel"
London, England, United Kingdom
"the Imperial War Museums Holocaust Galleries in London"

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