“The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.”

“We feel playing ‘Pokémon Go’ in a memorial dedicated to the victims of Nazism is inappropriate.”

Access to the records was restricted at the United Nations.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum welcomed Sir Ben Kingsley earlier this week to discuss “The Power of Film and the Holocaust.” While Kingsley has embraced a variety of memorable roles in the over 60 films of his career — like Gandhi, for which he won an Best Actor Oscar in 1982 — some of his most memorable and poignant characters were in films about the Holocaust.

Just breaking now from the Associated Press (via NPR): James Von Brunn, the white supremacist who shot and killed security guard Stephen Johns at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in June, has died. WASHINGTON (AP) – AP Source: Accused Holocaust museum shooter James Von Brunn has died in a prison hospital.More as we learn it. Here’s a little more from the Washington Post: His lawyer, the District’s federal public defender A.J. Kramer, said he did not…

MONDAY Politics and Prose welcomes Ali Ansari, who will be discussing his book Confronting Iran. We’ve not read the book, but we’d hazard a guess that the strategies offered by the author get a good deal more nuanced than something along the lines of whining “We got to get them to stop doing this shit.” 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW., at 7 p.m. TUESDAY It’s not said often enough, but historical accounts of great naval battles…