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The lingering impact of the Holocaust on second-generation survivors.
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For more than two years, the Living Memorial has served as a site for regular talks, lectures, discussions groups, musical performances and commemorations.
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Trump's new campaign chief executive officer comes from Breitbart, which called Bill Kristol "Renegade Jew."
He mentions the threatening atmosphere of anti-Semitism in Mussolini's Italy and his concern for his wife and children.
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Painter Jonasz Stern left a permanent mark on the Polish art of the 20th century.
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She denounced “the 6-million lie” and recommended the writings of Ernst Zündel, a German Holocaust denier who had been deported from Canada in 2005.
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July marks the two-year anniversary of the Oregon Jewish Museum's merger with the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.
While it is not the purpose of this article to present a dissertation on the Torah’s views on evolution, suffice it to say this is a very controversial topic and that strong arguments exist on both sides.
“Elie Wiesel was the collective moral compass of the Jewish people,” said Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky.
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For ten years after the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust.
Luz never married. “When she died,” Dwork said, “her nephew was going through her apartment, sorting out her effects, and he found a suitcase of these letters.
By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
“We took nothing, as we thought we would come home in a few days, but we never came home,” Sheindl recalled. She never saw Shaja again.
How did you view the Nazis during the Holocaust and how do you view them now?
By Ben Cohen
The depictions of Jews in this exhibit are straight out of Nazi propaganda, The Islamist barbarians who run Iran may be many things, but creators of pathbreaking art they are definitely not.
From the Arab perspective, the future of Holocaust-survivor-stabbing is bleak, and that replacements for it will not carry the same power.
By Lisa Trent
Often my students would question how human beings could be so cruel as to starve men, women, and children to death
“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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“We do not mean to approve or deny the Holocaust," said the exhibition's curator. Good to know.
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"As the world remembers one of the most horrific events in modern history, Christians, Jews and people of conscience must commit to make a stand and say never again."
By Batya Medad
In Israel, 2 days a year TV programming suits the restrictions of mourners. One was last night, the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day.
By Tzvi Fishman
A Holocaust can transpire by mass murder or mass assimilation. Regardless, to save the Jewish People, it is time for our exiles to come home.
The motto 'NEVER AGAIN' has nothing to do with the Nazis....=
Rivlin addressed the Holocaust survivors attending the ceremony, asking for their help in extracting the meaning of the tragedy and lessons to be learned.
As someone who witnessed horrors in no fewer than seven concentration camps, my father also wanted to publicly address the question of how it was possible that large masses of people, numbering in the millions, could be led to their extermination without a fight.
It would have been impossible to carry out the Holocaust without the complicity of so many governments, groups, and individuals.
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Barring voters she doesn't like is still short of marching them to the nearest train station for a one-way trip to Poland.
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"The learning of the Holocaust lessons in the state is done selectively and manipulatively."
Dina Gold's "Stolen Legacy" is the story of one woman's victory against the Nazis, albeit 60 years later.
One author interviewed multiple random university students to find out what they knew about World War II. The answer: Almost nothing.
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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."
“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.”
Netanyahu invited Prince Charles, who visited Saudi Arabia and Qatar in February, when they met at the Paris climate conference.
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.
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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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“Some people will try to take that and, you know, make it into an anti-Jewish thing, which is foolishness,” Carson said.
Polish-born Prof. Jan T. Gross wrote that although the Poles resisted the Nazis, they outdid them in murdering Jews.
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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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
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 […]
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.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The café opened in 1939 and was closed n 1949.
Moshe Krausz died alone and almost forgotten despite his saving more Jews than Schindler and Kasztner combined.
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The Vistula River is hiding no end of secrets. They are everywhere...
"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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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?"
The White House is passing up the opportunity for Obama's first meeting with the new Israeli president.
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.
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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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Sotloff, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, made aliyah in 2005.
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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.
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It will be harder to “never forget” when the survivors and the butchers no longer are alive.
The crimes from the Nazi regime still are being discovered.
By JTA
The Gurlitt Museum promises all looted art will be returned to the rightful owners.
"Yes, mistakes do happen,” he said in an apology.
Arabs once again prove that in the end, they cannot make peace with a Jew.
Oskar Groening’s defense is that he only was cog in the Nazi death machine.
We wish him a speedy recovery and a lifetime of laryngitis.
Hamas’ supreme leader Khaled Mashaal dashed any hopes of long-term peace with Israel in a speech in Qatar on Thursday in which he shot from the hip at Israel and also at his terrorist organization’s new partner, the rival Fatah movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. His lengthy speech in Qatar, which has […]
Members of Machnot Olim youth movement along with Holocaust survivors, flying kites for the 72 year rememberence of the execution of Yanush Korjack and his students in Treblinka at Yad Vashem on August 7, 2014. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Jewish blood was cheap and could be shed with impunity.
A high school student takes on the NYT's silence on the Holocaust.
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Organization responsible for distributing German reparations for Holocaust crimes facing decisions as Holocaust generation dies out
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As consul general of Peru in Geneva, Barreto issued 27 Peruvian passports to 58 Jews, including 14 children, even though the government of Peru by 1938 had given instructions to its consulates in Europe not to issue visas to foreign immigrants — with an emphasis on Jews in particular.
The West must be educated about the cruelty that has become endemic to much of the Muslim world.
The Holocaust and the rise of Israel occupy no space or time in many Orthodox schools.
The JMA will “Ride to Remember” to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust and to raise money for organizations that support and promote Holocaust education and awareness.
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Tens of thousands of Jews and Jewish supporters participated in the 12th March of the Living Hungary in Budapest in what is considered the largest civil anti-fascist event in Hungary. It was held on the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of Jews from Hungary by the Nazis. Holding posters saying “Never again” and “History […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) seeks to repay the debt of gratitude to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust by providing financial support to those non-Jewish rescuers in need.
Ze’ev’s childhood dream was to wear a uniform and be farmer. First, it was a nightmare. In Israel, it was a dream come true.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman examined the piece of Torah parchment, cut from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue, and used by a Luftwaffe officer to wrap his ID card during World War II.
On Sunday evening, April 27, 2014, six Holocaust survivors lit six torches representing the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide during the opening ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.
It is one thing “never to forget,” and it is another to remember not to let it happen again.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Findings point at an intensified feeling that personal safety and communal wellbeing are jeopardized.
By JTA
A sapling taken from the tree that grew outside the attic where teen Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was hidden will be planted at the U.S. Capitol. The tree will be planted on the west front lawn on April 30. Saplings taken from the tree have been planted around the world. The tree, at more than […]
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Members of the Jewish community were among the demonstrators protesting the construction of a controversial monument to the Hungarian victims of the German occupation, implying that the Hungarian government bore no responsibility for the death of Jews. Work on the statue began Tuesday in downtown Budapest, according to Klubradio, a news station known to be […]
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Workers began demolishing a wall in Warsaw near the spot where Jews were gathered for transport to the Treblinka concentration camp, but a city official said it will be rebuilt and was torn down so trees and vegetation could be cut. The wall borders the square in the former Warsaw Ghetto known as the Umschlagplatz […]
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An Italian tourist tried to smuggle a piece of barbed wire from the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum out of Poland in his suitcase. The man was detained Sunday by border guards at the airport in Krakow. The tourist said he found the rusty piece of wire, which is nearly 16 inches long, on the ground. “During interrogation, […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Putin is right. There is not anti-Semitism in Russia. They simply hate Jews.
By JTA
A new survey of anti-Semitic attitudes in Hungary showed up to 40 percent of respondents accepted some anti-Semitic attitudes. Conducted in December and commissioned by the Action and Protection Foundation, a watchdog on anti-Semitism of the Jewish community, the survey revealed that among those who accepted some anti-Semitic stereotypes, the proportion of people who displayed […]
By JTA
The Hungarian Jewish community held a memorial event in front of the downtown Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest Wednesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the occupation of Hungary by the Nazi-led German Army. The event, sponsored by the Jewish community but open to the public, comes after representatives of Mazsihisz, the Association of Hungarian […]
"The three of us survived the war only because of my father's ingenuity and guts."
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A New York man has gone to court for the return of several Nazi-looted artworks from the controversial collection of Cornelius Gurlitt in Munich. David Toren, 88, whose father and uncle were art collectors in the pre-war German city of Breslau, sued in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., earlier this month to demand the […]