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Israeli Ambassador: “The key difference between today and then is the Jewish people were unprotected and vulnerable whereas now we have a strong, independent state with the right as well as the ability to defend itself.”
Jerry Wartski, 94, who survived Auschwitz said in a Trump add that "I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in 1,000 lifetimes."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The remains of 12 adults and 11 children were uncovered in the town of Strešyn in the country’s southeastern Gomel region, which was occupied by the Nazi Germany in August 1941.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"It is shameful. Seeing this, it feels like they are winning," said Noemi Ebenstein, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, combined two phrases she tends to use, “durable solution” and “final resolution,” a source said.
António Guterres didn't mention Jews in a clip shared on social media, but his full statement did and quoted former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel's representative to the United Nations in Geneva, issued a statement for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
They laid wreaths, lit candles and observed a memorial service ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27.
The American Society for Yad Vashem has accused the Holocaust memorial's chairman Dani Dayan of attempting to "raid" an endowment built for the museum's perpetual support.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Abbas, whose doctoral dissertation denied the Holocaust, has also infamously accused Israel of “50 Holocausts.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Among the items found was a stone tablet containing a portion of the Ten Commandments.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Leaders of anti-Israel groups don’t belong at the helm of a museum, whose founding principles call for “support for a Jewish homeland,” according to Zionist Organization of America.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Historian reveals that Irmgard Kroymann was never a prisoner at Gross-Rosen camp, but volunteered to work there.
Mahmoud Abbas is not expected to participate in somber International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations on Friday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The daughter of Holocaust survivors is cheapening and ripping up the [memory] of the holy six million [Jews who were killed by the Nazis],” responded the Israeli National Security Minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to heir's lawsuit, Sompo’s predecessor purchased the picture “in reckless disregard of its provenance, including Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s forced sale of the painting in Nazi Germany in 1934.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The court also wants to lock up Inna Zhvanetskaya, 85.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Comparing Haitians leaving Haiti or Nicaraguans leaving Nicaragua to Jews fleeing violent extermination from Nazi Germany is both an outrageous minimization of the Holocaust and a vile slander of Latin American nations,” wrote Miller.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An estimated 65,000 individuals died at the camp near Gdansk, including "Jewish captives, Polish partisans, and Soviet Russian prisoners of war," according to prosecutors.
The Israeli Embassy there held a ceremony honoring Slovakian Righteous Among the Nations. It awarded six coins and certificates to six families who risked their lives saving persecuted Jews during the Holocaust.
"It was an act of bravery, and we, the Jewish people, owe his offspring a debt of gratitude."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s ambassador to Berlin retweeted an article claiming the offending security guard was of “Arab descent,” and connected the incident with P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s claim that Israel had perpetrated “50 Holocausts.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Cobb County’s history with anti-Semitism should have prevented something like this,” said the Jewish Federation of Atlanta.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The victims of the forest executions were mostly inmates of the Soldau Nazi concentration camp killed between 1940 and 1944.
Yad Vashem has recognized about 28,000 Righteous Among the Nations.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The apparent reconciliation process is taking place despite the fact that the seemingly offensive Polish law is still in place, and although Israel and Poland still disagree on Holocaust-related issues, specifically it’s legacy and history.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Boris Pahor was arrested by the Nazis in 1944 and deported to Dachau, which he survived along with four other concentration camps.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The bill, which unanimously passed the State Assembly earlier this week, will now be sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul for consideration.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Ben Ferencz, honored earlier this year by the State of Florida, was 27 when served as a Nazi prosecutor after the end of World War II.
By COLlive.com
The rabbi's appointment was announced by President Donald Trump on January 29, 2020, along with those of two other new members.
"It's exciting, there's nothing else to say, it's very exciting."
By Israel Hayom
The move has stunned many inside and outside the IDF, both due to the unilateral nature of the decision and due to the choice of alternative destination.
Raisa was one of 160 refugees brought to Israel on Thursday by United Hatzalah.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Workers took down “Flowers,” painted by German artist Lovis Corinth in 1913, and packed it for the family of Gustav and Emma Mayer.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dani Dayan welcomed the talk-show host’s “important” apology for stating that the Holocaust “wasn’t about race,” but said her remarks were evidence of a “fundamental misunderstanding” regarding the nature of anti-Semitism.
While reciting Kaddish, the Israeli Knesset Speaker broke down in tears. The German parliamentarians all rose to honor the prayer.
Speaker Levy becomes the first Israeli head of parliament to address the Bundestag.
Over the past year, researchers have identified their origin in Eastern Europe: from Lviv in Ukraine, and from Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Member of Knesset Ahmed Tibi, of the Arab-majority Joint List, utilized his speech at the Knesset plenum ahead of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day to bash Israel.
The photos include scenes of memorial services, work projects, families, artifacts, and more from the early years of the State of Israel.
The bus will allow easy access to students, educators, police, faith groups, and professionals to critical training on anti-Semitism, racism, bullying, stereotyping, hate, and intolerance.
International political negotiations with UN countries on this resolution have been ongoing for several months, Israel’s mission to the UN said, and will go public this week.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Louvre and Musee d'Orsay museums in Paris maintained custody of the works after World War II until their legal owners or heirs could be tracked down.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“These fees impose a significant burden on elderly Holocaust survivors, victims and heirs who often rely on these payments to meet their everyday needs,” Acting Superintendent Adrienne Harris said in a press release on Wednesday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Funds are earmarked towards purchasing food and other necessary items, such as medications and home heating fuel
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The majority of materials were taken in July 1942 from Thessaloniki, which once had a thriving Jewish community.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“As the last living Nuremberg prosecutor and a man who spent more than 50 years prosecuting the most horrific war crimes, [Ben] Ferencz embodies the idea that while the work is not ours to finish, neither is it ours to neglect,” said Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.).
By Israel Hayom
After an Israeli court halted the sale of the tattoo stamps following an outcry, the anonymous seller has decided to donate them to the Haifa Holocaust Museum.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Bidding had reached $3,400 when the auction was suspended pending a Nov. 16 hearing, following an outcry from Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors.
By Israel Hayom
The “extremely rare” stamps are expected to sell for $30,000-$40,000, says Tzolman’s Auction • European Jewish Association chairman appeals to Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar to halt the “despicable sale.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Museum space is at capacity, particularly during school hours, and requests for student tours and public workshops continue to increase,” said Holocaust Museum LA CEO Beth Kean.
Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Leon said, “The Righteous Among the Nations Chiyona Sugihara did everything in his power and worked tirelessly to save Jews from the clutches of the Nazis, at no small a personal price.”
By Nathan Lewin
Israeli bureaucrats have denied visas for the son of a righteous gentile to attend a Jerusalem ceremony in his father’s honor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Yad Vashem recognized Angel Sanz-Briz as a Righteous Among the Nations in 1966 for saving approximately 5,200 Jews from the Nazis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Senate Bill 693 was favorably received in the state legislature and is supported by the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Every year these negotiations become more and more critical; as this last generation of survivors age, their needs increase,” said Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 100-year-old man was allegedly complicit in executions done by firing squads and poisonous gas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Col. Thomas Joseph Kendrick worked 15-hour days to process up to 175 applications daily to help Jews escape Austria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Canadian government had been attempting to expel Helmut Oberlander for more than two decades, claiming he had hidden his role as a Nazi death squad interpreter during his immigration to Canada in 1954.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
A few years ago, Dr. Jon Seligman's visit to Vilna as part of a roots trip sparked the idea of digging up what was left of the compound and the synagogue.
Decades after the capture and trial of Nazi arch-murderer Adolf Eichmann, the name of the man believed to have given the Mossad the evidence they needed to find him has been revealed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It comes days after Poland passed a new law that sets a 30-year limit on restitution claims for property stolen by the Nazis during World War II, which has led to a row between Israel and Poland.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the US is “deeply concerned” by the law and urged Duda not sign the bill into law or refer the bill to Poland’s constitutional tribunal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The passage of time is no barrier to justice when it comes to the heinous crimes of the Holocaust,” said Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Education Trust.
Lipstadt’s nomination was hailed by numerous Jewish organizations, which over the past months had been lobbying the White House to appoint a candidate as violent acts of anti-Semitism have surged.
By Ariel Kahana
The Polish ambassador was summoned by the Foreign Ministry over the draft legislation • Yair Lapid: “We will not allow any parliament to pass laws the purpose of which is to deny the Holocaust.”
“We are not interested in Polish money and the very implication is anti-Semitic. We are fighting for the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, for the pride of our people, and no parliament can enact laws aimed at denying the Holocaust,” Lapid stated.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Let me be clear: The House Republican Conference condemns this language,” says House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
33,771 Jewish victims were shot at Babyn Yar by the Nazis and their Ukrainian minions during just two days, September 29 and 30, 1941.
Yehuda was a survivor of Aushwitz. This is his story.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
During the ceremony, six torches were lit, and the stories of the six Holocaust survivors who lit them were presented during short videos. Shmuel Naar, Zehava Gealel, Yossi Chen, Halina Friedman, Sara Fishman, and Manya Bigunov lit the torches.
Decades-long study provides basis for close monitoring of people who have experienced trauma early in life and the impact it can have on long-term health.
The advent of the vaccines, coupled with Israel's vast vaccination campaign, assisted by Israelis and Jews who hold prominent positions in vaccine-making companies, reinforced the anti-Semitic responses.
“The ‘March of the Living’ connects between those who learned about the Holocaust firsthand and those who did not."
Unawareness about Holocaust history poses a challenge for TikTok, as 41 percent of the video-sharing network’s users are between ages 16 and 24.
Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A total of 5,300 survivors contracted the virus in the past year, and 17% died.
Yoram Haimi, Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist: “I have been excavating this site for ten years, but today I broke down.”
By Israel Hayom
The Tefillin were discovered as Polish authorities began to demolish buildings inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jack Dorsey has been quick to edit “misinformation” when it comes to politics, the coronavirus pandemic or other issues of consequence, but not when it comes to anti-Semitism, says End Jew Hatred.
"Baruch was a partisan and a fighter who, throughout his life, embodied the survivors' rebirth and commitment to building a new life for himself, his family, his nation, and his country."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This is just one of many ways we can repay our boundless gratitude for all that they did to save Jews during the Holocaust,” said Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.
Daniel Bouknight recognized that he had become the steward of something important, and that he needed to do his part to right a historic wrong.
Perhaps the two most moving items in the collection are a pair of notes found in her dress following her execution: the last poem she ever wrote and a personal letter to her mother.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The man who served as a Nazi concentration-camp guard has lost his appeal to halt his deportation.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Erdogan focused much of his anger on France and French President Emmanuel Macron. The two are already in conflict over French policy against the separatism of Muslim communities across the country.
"Anti-Semitism and racism threaten our society as a whole, they endanger our values and our democracy."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Responded the Simon Wiesenthal Center: “At a time when the Internet is awash with fake news and technological tools that enable governments and virtually anyone to manipulate information, we welcome Facebook’s change of policy to stand with historic fact and the 6 million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A state administrative judge ruled in August that William Latson should be rehired, though reassigned. Donald Fennoy, superintendent of the School District of Palm Beach County, has recommended that Latson be reinstated and given $152,000 in back pay.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Poland is the only European Union member-state that has not adopted a national comprehensive private-property restitution law.
The Alfred Landecker Foundation was established by the Reimann family in June 2019 to atone for their father and grandfather's war crimes.
Every week, a recorded message from the final generation of Holocaust survivors to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is posted on Facebook, Instagram (owned by Facebook) and Twitter.
Every day, a recorded message from the final generation of Holocaust survivors to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg will be posted on Facebook.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. House passed the legislation in January • Utah senator’s office declined to specify the issue.
By Ariel Kahana
Anti-Semites logged into the Yom Hashoah video conference, waved photos of Hitler and shout anti-Jewish slogans • Israeli ambassador to Germany: This was a disgraceful incident that must be condemned in the strongest of terms.
Last night I was in the village of my birth / In the landscape that is dear to my heart in its radiance / In the well of my childhood a reflection still shimmers / My father’s house still stands.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Far too many Americans of Jewish faith still face persecution,” said U.S. President Donald Trump.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Strict coronavirus regulations prevent public events to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, leading organizers to find new ways to continue the traditions and educational efforts associated with it.
The investigation reveals the coronavirus pandemic is linked to the upswing in anti-Semitism incidents.
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