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"The Germans incessantly lied to the Jews they deported for extermination. They told them about resettlement, work and life in a different location."
“I think that every country in the world must stand up and fully condemn this,” Netanyahu said. “This is what I told US Secretary of State John Kerry last night in my conversation with him.”
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Following is the address by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve (4 May) of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.
It’s the Holocaust rescue story that often goes untold—Jews who put their lives on the line to save their fellow Jews.
When Pnina Katsir turned 80, she finally told her daughter a secret she had kept for decades: she was a survivor of the Holocaust.
Rivlin addressed the Holocaust survivors attending the ceremony, asking for their help in extracting the meaning of the tragedy and lessons to be learned.
Zikaron ba-Salon is a social initiative started six years ago by a group of friends who felt they needed a more direct and unfiltered way of connecting with the memory of the Holocaust on the solemn day.
The new plans will benefit 60,000 survivors living below the poverty line.
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Bearded Jewish soldiers are not let into an institution dedicated to documenting the tragic fate of millions of bearded Jews.
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Groysman is married to Elena Ivanovna Groysman. They have two daughters, Christine and Irene, and a son, David.
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Bernie did come close to using the H word for political profit on Saturday.
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Chairman Gafni praised the Dutch government and Holland's ambassador to Israel Gilles Beschoor Plug, for "making the right decision."
Russia and Israel are partners in the struggle against revisionist history, Russian officials said.
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"Israeli society is not sufficiently aware of the Russian Jewry's suffering during World War Two," said MK Naguisa.
Dina Gold's "Stolen Legacy" is the story of one woman's victory against the Nazis, albeit 60 years later.
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Rouhani will address UNESCO, the United Nation's science and culture organization, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu reminds the world that irrational hatred for and obsession with the Jewish people continues.
A large majority of Israelis are willing to support an increase in benefits to help new immigrants succeed.
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"The Holocaust has become, over the years, an abstraction. For me, it's more of a face, a human face. Let us not forget this face."
Watch it and see for yourself whether it helps you understand what the Lewis project was all about and how he was planning to do an honest to goodness Holocaust comedy.
“We know that Albania is a good friend of Israel,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said to his Albanian counterpart. “We’re celebrating now 25 years of our relations.”
The menorah that today sits on the windowsill of the home of the family of Rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner, had once faced Nazi headquarters in Kiel, Germany in 1931.
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Among the children were many who had lost fathers in the line of duty or in terror attacks.
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According to at least one source, in 1946 the group planned to kill six million Germans by poisoning the drinking water of Munich, Berlin, Weimar, Nuremberg and Hamburg.
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These are the personal accounts of how the Jews of Europe celebrated the Festival of Lights before, during and after one of the darkest chapters in modern history.
Master Sgt. Robbie Edwards, as a POW, told a Nazi officer if he wants to exterminate Jewish soldiers, he has to murder him and fellow non-Jews.
Observant Jews cringe every year that Chanukah and Christmas overlap, leading to sacrilegious combinations of customs, but the kosher industry is losing out when the two holidays are totally separate, such as this year Chanukah beings next Sunday night, December 6, and ends eight days later, almost two weeks before the Christians holiday. Industry experts […]
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Past Kristallnacht commemorations were rife with Palestinian flags, and banners with the Star of David equals the Nazi swastika equation. Just the way it was when the Mufti and Hitler used to run them…
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Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels urged the gang to take to the streets in familiar Nazi fashion, with the message: the Jews must pay for vom Rath’s death.
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This program fills a critical need for many of the 120,000 Holocaust survivors living in the US, one quarter of whom live in poverty.
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“Grandpa,” she argued, “wasn’t a bad person, he obeyed orders and did not personally kill anyone.”
The Prime Minister kept the connection of the Muslim leader with Hitler in the headlines just prior to visiting Germany.
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Netanyahu's point about the Arabs, the Mufti and Hitler got lost in his statement.
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It's not difficult to imagine what Zoabi is going to say....
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is visiting Yad VaShem Sunday during his two-day tour in Israel for the 30th International Mayors Conference. He will be joined by approximately 40 other international mayors participating in the conference. Mayor de Blasio will tour the Holocaust History Museum, participate in a memorial ceremony in the Hall […]
Polish-born Prof. Jan T. Gross wrote that although the Poles resisted the Nazis, they outdid them in murdering Jews.
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There were an estimated 20,000 German Jews who owned guns. In 1933, the Nazis used official records to disarm potential opponents—communists, socialists and Jews.
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“People clustered around me. One told me she loved me, and asked me to hug her. One, to my relief, started hitting me. There was also a black woman who said I scared her.”
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While being questioned at Nuremberg, Göring was “humble” about having pulled off one of the most extensive theft of artwork in history...
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A military train had been discovered in Walbrzych, near Poland’s border with the Czech Republic.
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Tova Fish-Rosenberg created the program back in 2004, transforming traditional history lessons into a lively, interactive, nontraditional experience that involves individuals who lived through the history being taught.
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A 91-year-old SS woman aided operations that led to the murder of 260,000 Jews.
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(JNi.media) A Jewish Memorial Park was inaugurated last week in the Fushouyuan cemetery at Shanghai’s Qingpu District, to mark the 70th anniversary of the War and the survival of the Jewish Refugees who fled to China from Eastern Europe. According to Shanghai Daily. A memorial stone was unveiled in the park, inscribed with the name […]
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When it comes to evil, the Nazis still rank highest in the minds of many, and are considered to be the epitome of evil, at least for the previous century—until today.
Their remains had been kept in jars and test tubes in a French medical school.
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“I mean, the Nazis did terrible evil but they ... [did] try to hide it. These people boast about their evil,” Abbott said.
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The death bed confessions of a former Nazi soldier revealed the whereabouts of the “Nazi train” which remained hidden for decades in tunnels in Poland and is thought to contain gold, art and other valuables.
The management of the former death camp says there was no intention to remind people of the gas "showers."
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The ruler of the Principality of Monaco, Prince Albert II, on Thursday issued a formal apology for his country’s role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II.
She denies that her criticism of Republicans wanting to put immigrants in "boxcars" was a reference to the Holocaust.
Moshe Krausz died alone and almost forgotten despite his saving more Jews than Schindler and Kasztner combined.
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Perhaps Natalie Portman’s opinion requires more studying than our confrontational, easy to rage, left-right debating rings offer...
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The Vistula River is hiding no end of secrets. They are everywhere...
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Jewish community leaders argued these “stolpersteine” — German for stumbling blocks — were an inappropriate form of remembrance because people would step on them.
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“It’s powerful to see today’s Christians, especially from Germany, standing with Israel as well as taking an active role in supporting Holocaust survivors..."
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The 17 second film shows England’s Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and Edward VIII, giving the camera the Nazi salute.
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The parents of the accused were unable to accompany him to the indictment.
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Oskar Gröning, 94, the “Auschwitz Bookkeeper,” has been sentenced to four years in prison for his part in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews.
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JFR is committed to assisting Righteous Gentiles who are in need, including those who are reluctant to ask for help, believing they acted without expecting reward—then or now.
Vile antisemitism in a school district 90 miles from NYC led to a multi-million dollar settlement.
"The Jewish people and the State of Israel owe an eternal debt to Nicholas Winton who singlehandedly saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday after hearing of his death. Winton died in Britain at the age of 106. He saved hundreds of Jewish children from the gas chambers […]
Nicholas Winton saved hundreds of Jewish children from the gas chambers but said nothing for nearly 50 years.
God may forgive. He never forgets.
The main issue of the seminar was the well-being of Holocaust survivors in Europe today.
Thousands of former Nazi war criminals lied their way into the United States and later received old-age benefits.
“We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again,” said Red Cross President Peter Maurer.
Lauder: 'Jews demanded no 'Right of Return' to Germany or Austria or Poland or any other European country.'
Oskar Groening's admission of crimes and denial of guilt exposes the depths and truth of evil.
U.S. Secretary of State Kerry calls the Shoah "the most painful and horrific chapter in human history."
The president was very politically correct on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
Israel, for good reason, is just about the only nation on Earth that understands the results of appeasing evil.
Sirens were heard across the country at 10 a.m., when people were asked to stand, or stop their cars, in memory of 6 million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis. Many Hareidim, but not all of them, do not stand, and every year the anti-Hareidi media post a picture of Hareidim walking while the siren blares. […]
Bar-Ilan University released the research report the evening before Holocaust Remembrance Day.
There are 189,000 survivors of the Holocaust still living, but an average of 40 die every day, the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims in Israel reported Monday in its annual report. Holocaust Remembrance Day will be observed on Wednesday night and Thursday. The Foundation also said that 45,000 survivors live in poverty, as […]
Nazi symbols were written on the walls of a building that may have been designated as shelters for Nazi leaders.
By Rachel Levy
In Berlin 2015, a major Jewish monthly magazine is now delivered in plain wrapping paper -- to minimize the chance of attack.
Locked in Auschwitz, their cries for assistance were not heard, so they escaped through an open window, setting off an alarm.
BBC: "Our one big question this morning: Is the time coming to lay the Holocaust to rest?"
President Obama is sending Jack Lew, the first Orthodox Jewish Treasury Secretary to the commemoration. Secretary Lew will be leading a delegation of State Department officials and Auschwitz survivors.
Prior to Sunday's cabinet meeting, Bibi talked about the dangers of Iran, ISIS and anti-Semitism and the importance of Aliyah.
NY Councilman Greenfield exposes anti-Zionists as Anti Semites: "They are upset because Hitler didn't finish the job."
Chief Rabbi David Lau reminds all Jews to say the Kaddish prayer in memory of Holocaust victims.
By JTA
The Nazis nearly destroyed the 17th synagogue.
Greek Jewish cemetery vandalized, graffiti called for "six million more."
By JTA
Oscar-winner “Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” has been selected for permanent preservation in the Library of Congress by the National Film Registry. The film, released in 2000, documents the rescue of some 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-dominated Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia in the months leading up to World War II. […]
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Prof. Jan Grabowski of the University of Ottawa in Canada was awarded the 2014 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research for his book memory of Holocaust survivor Abraham Meir Schwarzbaum and his family members who were murdered in the Holocaust. His book “Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland” […]
Document proves she not only slept with senior Nazis but also spied for them.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
As part of a joint Yad Vashem project, Israeli border police stationed in Jerusalem ‘adopt’ Holocaust survivors living in neighborhoods across the capital.
The crimes from the Nazi regime still are being discovered.
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The Gurlitt Museum promises all looted art will be returned to the rightful owners.
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The German envoy has a perverse version of “never forget.”
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The book should make Jews in America fell a little bit queasy, to say the least.
By JTA
The indictment is against a Holocaust survivor.
"Yes, mistakes do happen,” he said in an apology.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Al-Rub's work has been used by B'Tselem for a variety of accusations against Israel.
Oskar Groening’s defense is that he only was cog in the Nazi death machine.
Since March, there have been repeated acts of anti-Semitic vandalism against Philly's Jewish sites and institutions.
We wish him a speedy recovery and a lifetime of laryngitis.