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“This global crisis created a far more accepting culture for the role digital media must play in remembrance.”
"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)
The country, which perpetrated mass murder against Jews and other minorities between 1933 and 1945, also agreed to increase pensions to 55,000 Holocaust survivors in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as to expand eligibility for child survivors.
Since the unit began its work, a total of 3,521 applications have been received and processed for tracing and obtaining information.
By JNi.Media
Rare and unpublished works represent the collective memory and cultural history of Eastern European and Russian Jews.
By JNi.Media
'What came across to me as unique and fresh was how do you live with pain? How do you have a life after such atrocity?'
By JNi.Media
She was the creator of the exhibit the Tower of Life at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, a soaring display of 1500 photographs depicting the people of a typical East European shtetl.
Rivlin addressed the Holocaust survivors attending the ceremony, asking for their help in extracting the meaning of the tragedy and lessons to be learned.
U.S. Secretary of State Kerry calls the Shoah "the most painful and horrific chapter in human history."
By JTA
Another old-school New York Jewish institution is about to fall victim to gentrification.
By JTA
A school bus killed a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor as he was crossing a street in a Maryland suburb of Washington. Elia Miranski was using a walker when the bus hit him in Silver Spring near Washington D.C., on Wednesday, the Silver Spring Patch news site reported. He died later that day in a hospital. The […]
By JTA
Thousands more Holocaust survivors in Israel will receive benefits under a law just passed by the Knesset. The law received its third and final reading and was passed by unanimous vote on Monday, Feb. 10. The law does several things: first, it makes eligible all 18,500 Israelis who survived the death camps and the ghettos […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The White House on Friday announced the appointment of Aviva Sufian as the first Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Special Envoy for U.S. Holocaust Survivor Services. Vice President Joe Biden had announced the formation of the new position in December 2013. Sufian “will focus on those [Holocaust] survivors currently living in poverty, as […]
By JTA
More than 1,000 people have applied for new compensation of a one-time payment of $2,700 from Germany for labor performed in Amsterdam’s Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust. The compensation is offered to people who lived in three districts of the Dutch capital that served as ghettos for the city’s Jewish community during the German occupation […]
By JTA
The U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the plight of Holocaust survivors in the United States. Both Republicans and Democrats on the committee said at the Wednesday hearing that survivors are better off aging at home. “The emphasis on caring for aging survivors must be on creating a safe space surrounded […]
By JTA
Government officials in Lithuania said they would offer symbolic reparations to nearly 1,800 Jewish Holocaust survivors. The officials told the Baltic News Agency on Wednesday that each survivor will receive a payment of $622 this year. The compensation was also for “suffering during the Soviet occupation,” according to the announcement. Lithuanian governments have faced criticism […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A Polish couple pleaded guilty to the desecration of a historic site for destroying a Holocaust-era Jewish hideout in the Warsaw apartment the couple was renting. The hideout was made into an official historic monument in 1999. A Holocaust hideout built by a Warsaw ghetto inmate was destroyed by a polish couple who pleaded guilty […]
By JTA
Holocaust survivors and victims’ heirs have received $1.24 billion from a Swiss fund set up in 1998 following a scandal over dormant accounts of Jews killed in World War II, according to the Swiss Jewish weekly Tachles. It wrote that the figure appeared in a report by New York judge Edward Korman, who oversees the […]
Germany officials recently met in Israel for the first time to negotiate aid for Holocaust survivors, whom they visited in their homes and at soup kitchens. Now it announces $800 million more aid.
A woman who survived the Holocaust had no idea at the time that her son would command Israel’s army. On Monday, Benny Gantz will become the first IDF Chief of Staff to lead the March of the Living.
Yom HaShoah will open at sundown at Yad Vashem's Warsaw Ghetto Square in Jerusalem.
By JTA
A son of Holocaust survivors, who is running for reelection in the Florida statehouse, has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League after labeling the group “despicable.” The ADL had criticized Sheldon Lisbon after he sent out an email to supporters in June with the subject line, “A vote for Shelly Lisbon is a vote for the […]
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