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.
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)
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)
Among the items found was a stone tablet containing a portion of the Ten Commandments.
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)
“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.
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.
Zelenskyy used the memory of the Holocaust and its victims... But, his remarks have already made headlines in both international and Arab media, and you can't take it back.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Students with Holocaust education are more likely to stand up to negative stereotyping and challenge incorrect, biased information,” said director of teen programming Aaron Kischel.
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.
“Give me an example of one Muslim state with possibly the exception of Morocco, where Jews and other religions live and prosper as minorities."
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.”
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 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 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.
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.
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.
With Yom Ha’Shoah being commemorated this week, what lessons did we learn from that tragic era?
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 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)
Efraim Zuroff slammed the proposed legislation as the “final stage of a long attempt to whitewash massive complicity by Lithuanians.”
A Holocaust doesn’t just happen one, two, three. A Holocaust doesn’t begin with Auschwitz. It ends there!
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the program showed maps that place Nazi concentration camps within the borders of modern-day Poland.
Over 75% of Dutch Jews, an estimated 102,000, were exterminated in the Holocaust.
Orly tells her stories and why they are important.
FDR's Administration blocked repeated calls for the bombing of the rail lines, bridges and crematoria at Auschwitz.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We expect the number of victims to go over 1,000,” said Brest official Anna Kondak. “During three weeks, every day about 40 remains are being found."
Re-writing history to one's benefit.
I remember growing up and wondering why my grandmother would jump and go pale every-time a glass broke in the house.
Marshal Philippe Petain was a French leader and Nazi collaborator in World War II.
The Holocaust, Kristallnacht, and harrowing reports of conditions in concentration camps, as described by a British Senior doctor during his visit just after liberation.
“The thousands of Righteous Gentiles were not the rule. They were the exception that proved the rule.”
By JNi.Media
The new Yad Vashem exhibition tells how Jews yearned for Eretz Israel during and immediately following the Shoah in the years 1933-1948.
Did FDR abandon the Jews during the Holocaust?
Orly speaks with Holocaust survivor Samuel Schlesinger and future MK Roei Kashi from the Likud party. Orly also mentions and analyzes the current Syria-Russia-USA tensions and sends their leaders a personal message.
The most powerful week on the Israeli secular calendar is one that storms the Heavens and screams "ZIONISM"!
A visit to Auschwitz .
By Moshe Herman
Malkah Fleisher joins Yishai to talk about the bad guys of the past and present. Then, Yishai visits Rabbi Mois Navon to search for the elusive Tekhelet snail. Finally, the words of Mike Bernath, Auschwitz survivor and heroic partisan, who passed away this year.
Iran warned Israel Wednesday that it would exact retribution for a missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier in the week in which at least seven Iranian military officials were killed.
The author of 'The Statement' forms his connection to all the characters. “I seem to have lived with these characters and shared their suffering,” he says.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If passed the legislation would grant money raised through donations to American schools as part of the Holocaust Education Assistance Program.
The annual meeting in Israel of the Leadership Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations and their achievements.
The museum would serve to rectify a “blind spot” that many Ukrainians have about their country’s role in the Holocaust.
Protesters held up banners in Hebrew and Polish reading ‘No law can change history’ and ‘Poles, we remember what you did.’
The Polish nation is passing a bill threatening a prison sentence of up to three years to anyone using the phrase “Polish death camps” to describe the extermination camps in Poland during WWII.
Rabbi Moshe Azman wants the March of the Living trips moved out of Poland.
We've spent the past few days deleting a lot of horribly anti-Semitic comments written by Polish commenters.
Does Poland have a right to claim innocence?
Holocaust denial by the Arabs and others.
Restrictions on statements... regarding the Polish people's direct or indirect complicity with the crimes committed... during the Holocaust are a serious distortion.
By JNi.Media
The term "Polish death camp" was first used by Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski in a 1944 article that was titled "Polish Death Camp."
What has been learned from all the memorials if synagogues across Europe need round-the-clock protection?
I remember growing up and wondering why my grandmother would jump and go pale every-time a glass broke in the house.
Making sense out of our lives, and the nature of mankind.
Hitchhiking on the Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors are still struggling!
Sheep to the slaughter? We weren't even human anymore!
The way Holocaust is taught is a dis-service to our children.
...and the anti-Trump activists go wild.
Photoshoping pictures of disrespectful people into historical holocaust photos.
By JNi.Media
'The Six Million: Fact or Fiction?' by Peter Winter is reportedly available for sale by Amazon in Germany, a country where Holocaust denial is a crime.
By JNi.Media
For decades, the International Red Cross and governments around the world, including the US and Israel, did not allow the archives to be opened for public use.
Why is the world erasing the Jews from history?
Yes, the Trump administration is literally in its infancy and the Holocaust statement may well reflect nothing more than an incomplete vetting process. But it is nonetheless worthy of note.
By Jeff Dunetz
Trump’s decision was made to prevent terrorists from coming into America. FDR prevented refugees from coming into America because they were Jewish and he thought the country didn’t need any more Jews
The U.N. insults Israel again.
The decision not to mention the Jews was deliberate, a way of demonstrating the inclusive approach of the Trump administration. This omission negates the specifically Jewish quality of the Holocaust.
By JNi.Media
From 2012-2016 the German government has provided more than $290,000 to NGO promoting turning Israel into a multicultural, Arab-majority state.
By JNi.Media
There are thousands of personal letters in the Yad Vashem Archives, which were sent by Jews – adults and children – to their relatives and friends from their homes, the ghettos and the camps.
By Ben Cohen
If the Holocaust is now primarily an instrument to be deployed in politics, rather than a central historical memory with a direct bearing upon politics & ethics, we can expect its further manipulation
By Jeff Dunetz
Obama stuck it to the Jews one more time before he leaves office by appointing Ben "I massaged the truth to sell the Iran deal to the American public" Rhodes to the US Holocaust Memorial Council.
By JNi.Media
Jared Kushner is a man who knows how to keep a grudge, and knows the secret of revenge being best served ice cold. Don't underestimate him, don't mess with him, don't take him for granted.
The memoir follows a year and a half of the travels and travails of Rabbi Hirschprung from the beginning of World War II until his arrival in Japan.
Named after their beloved grandfather, who did not have grandsons to carry on the family name, Apeloig Collection serves as a living memory for all generations.
By JNi.Media
The law allows the heirs six years to sue in US court from the day they become aware of the existence and location of the looted object.
By JNi.Media
He visited the Bank of England and met the Chief Cashier, who presented him with one of the notes which he had forged in the concentration camp more than sixty years earlier.
By JNi.Media
Key is often asked why he didn't speak any German, considering his Austrian roots, and his response is: “The simple answer is my mother refused to teach me. She did not want to reflect on her history.”
Answers to Chris’s questions about his father’s war record finally began trickling in when he discovered a New York Times article published in late 2008, in which Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds is mentioned.
An international workshop hosted by Yad Vashem's Mirilashvili Center
By JNi.Media
When it opens officially, in early 2017, the museum's permanent collection will focus on the "Holocaust by Bullets."
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.
The center has always strived to teach people from all walks of life the universal lessons of the Holocaust.
Although six decades have since passed, the Kastner Affair remains highly controversial.
By Edwin Black
Too many Holocaust memorials have lost their original identity and transitioned to an institution which devotes itself to both Holocaust and genocide, or simply to global genocide
By Edwin Black
Too many Holocaust memorials have lost their original identity and transitioned to an institution which devotes itself to both Holocaust and genocide, or simply to global genocide
By JNi.Media
In today's digital age, such film footage is particularly compelling and stirring, granting us a glimpse into a living memory of a world that was – and is no longer.
By JNi.Media
The lingering impact of the Holocaust on second-generation survivors.
By JNi.Media
For more than two years, the Living Memorial has served as a site for regular talks, lectures, discussions groups, musical performances and commemorations.