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Holocaust Survivor’s Name Lives On

By Nataly Blumberg

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.

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A Survivor’s Thanksgiving

By Ted Roberts

Thanksgiving. Thanks Giving. Sammy, from Lodz, knew about that. As an observant Jew, did he not give thanks before and after every meal?

PreOccupied Territory

Palestinians Mull Plans For When No Holocaust Survivors Left To Stab

By PreOccupied Territory

From the Arab perspective, the future of Holocaust-survivor-stabbing is bleak, and that replacements for it will not carry the same power.

Holocaust / Iran / Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

2nd Generation Holocaust Survivors Fear Nuclear Iran

By Jewish Press Staff

Bar-Ilan University released the research report the evening before Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Holocaust / Israel / News Briefs

Number of Holocaust Survivors Declines to 189,000

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

A Banner Raised High

Yesh Atid, Revise Your Platform

By Menachem Ben-Mordechai

"We believe that every person in Israel must have their fundamental rights met..." Not applicable to terror victims and their families' fundamental right to justice.

Op-Eds

Living Respectfully among Non-Jews: an Open Letter to Jewish Parents

By Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper

Across Europe, the lid has come off the demons repressed for a few decades after the Holocaust.

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Holocaust as an Expression of Kindness? Seriously?

By Harry Maryles

Rabbi Avigdor Miller did not want to publish this work during his lifetime. He felt that so soon after the Holocaust it would upset survivors

Op-Eds

A Call to Action: Shut Down the Claims Conference

By Guest Author

After helping themselves to large salaries and allowing fraud to persist under their noses for over a decade, the Claims Conference is too broke to serve the survivors.

Op-Eds

Confronting Auschwitz and Birkenau

By Inbar Aberman

Hope is a vital part of visiting the death camps in Europe.

Europe / News Briefs

Nazi Leader’s Sister Hid Jews Near Brussels

By JTA

The sister of a Belgian Nazi leader hid three Jews in her home near Brussels during the Holocaust, according to one of the survivors.

Potpourri

I Am Proud

By Ita Yankovich

As I approached the home of Irving and Miriam Borenstein in the Mill Basin section of Brooklyn, two things became clear: the pride they feel at being Jewish and their joy at living in America. On their front lawn are large American and Israeli flags with a plaque in front which reads: Never forget the six million murdered in the Holocaust and the three thousand murdered on 9/11. May G-d remember them for the good with the other righteous of the world.

Op-Eds

As We Care For Survivors, Don't Forget The Damage Done To Their Descendents

By Mordechai Smith and Yosefa Schoor

The words "Never Forget" have become synonymous with the Holocaust, but as the actual horror of the Holocaust starts to fade, it's time we add to the mantra an addendum: "Never Ignore."

Emes Ve-Emunah

For Victims of Abuse - A Warm Embrace

By Rabbi Yakov Horowitz

In part the altered lives victims of abuse and molestation live are a result of the abuse itself. But it is in part also because of the unfortunate negative reaction to the victims by their own community.

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Crowning Miss Holocaust Survivor

By Moshe Herman

Yishai and Malkah talk about a recent beauty pageant for Holocuast survivors along with contrasts between new German and Israeli Laws. They also discuss a gift that was recently delivered from a fan.

News Briefs / US

Claims Conference Employee Admits to Stealing $550K from Survivors, $57 Mil. Missing

By Jewish Press Staff Reporter

Zlata Blavatnik, 65, was part of a ring of 31 individuals, including Claims Conference former employees, who, over 10 years, allegedly stole $57 million in German reparation funds intended for Nazi Holocaust victims. Blavatnik is cooperating with the FBI investigation.

Teens and Twenties

Victim Or Survivor?

By Jewish Press Staff

Everyone, at least one time in his or her life, gets knocked down, and most of us have trouble getting back up. Let’s face it – we all get depressed at times. Sometimes we get stuck in a funk and we don’t know how to get out of it, especially if we’re constantly being knocked down. Eventually, we don’t even want to get up anymore. Why should we get back up, just to get knocked down again?

Lessons In Emunah

The Yellow Star

By Rabbi Zalman Eisenstock

A little more than six months ago, my sister-in-law passed away after battling a serious illness. For more than 30 years she had given symposiums on the Holocaust to youngsters in the Philadelphia area, and we talked about her activities many times on our visits to the U.S. After her passing I was determined to do some kind of volunteer work for Yad Vashem in her memory.

News Briefs

Illinois Republican Candidate for Congress Says 'Holocaust Never Happened'

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Oak Lawn Patch reported that Arthur Jones, 64, a Lyons, IL, insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly, neo-Nazi events around Adolf Hitler's birthday, hopes to be the Republican candidate chosen to run against Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski in Illinois' 3rd Congressional District. "As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international […]

MUSSAR – Avi Ganz

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