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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

Daniel Panneton

Daniel Panneton is the education and programs assistant at the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, in Toronto.

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The Soap Myth

A Holocaust artifact in a post-truth era May 2019
Rumours that Germany exploited human remains for wartime industrial production date back to 1915. During the First World War, Allied nations spread stories of the kaiser using corpses to produce nitroglycerine at munition factories. This propagandistic atrocity tale was one of many designed to incite anti-­German sentiment. Although many of these stories were eventually discredited, tales of the corpse factories…