#The Holocaust

Author: Dionne Searcey and Emmanuel Akinwotu / Source: New York Times Luis Tato/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ABUJA, Nigeria — The leading presidential candidates in Nigeria urged their supporters to be patient on Saturday after officials said the election would be delayed by a week, just

Author: Joachim West / Source: Bored Panda About five years ago I made a portfolio of colorized images of the Holocaust and reached out to various organizations dedicated to preserving the memory of this horrific period in history about the possibility of working with them. Many of them didn’t

Author: Derek Beres / Source: Big Think Recomposition is the process of turning human bodies into soil. Recompose founder Katrina Spade dreamed up her company after learning about livestock being composted. Washington might be the first state in the nation to legally add this as a viable

Author: Scotty Hendricks / Source: Big Think Lifeguards and rescue workers help a migrant woman to shore in Greece. Are they acting out of concern for her, or veiled self-interest? (BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images) We often look up to selfless individuals as paragons of virtue. We remember those

The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Katie, decided to share the heartbreaking story of her beloved grandmother on Tumblr. Her grandmother was only 2-years-old when Hitler marched into Poland in 1939. The girl was too little to understand how horribly this political shift would change not