Retropolis To liberate Auschwitz, David Dushman drove a Soviet tank through...
David Dushman had no idea of the horrors he was about to discover. He was a 21-year-old major in the Red Army in January 1945, when his tank rolled past Krakow, Poland, heading west, pushing the...
View ArticleHeadstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine and Romania
(JTA) — In two separate incidents, a Jewish cemetery was vandalized in Romania and Ukraine. The Center for Monitoring and Combating Antisemitism in Romania-MCA reported Sunday about the incident in the...
View ArticleKrakow city official says good-luck figurines of Jews are ‘antisemitic’ and...
(JTA) — A spokesperson for the city of Krakow, Poland, condemned as antisemitic the figurines of Orthodox Jews that are on sale as good luck charms there. “This figurine is anti-Semitic and it’s time...
View ArticleOpinion: Auschwitz comes to the middle of America, with a powerful warning
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Michael Berenbaum, eminent scholar of the Holocaust, opened a powerful exhibition here on Monday by saying, “People must go to Auschwitz, and Auschwitz must go to the people.” So...
View ArticleUS and Germany join in Holocaust education push
(JTA) — The Biden administration and Angela Merkel’s government are signing a letter of intent to share information and strategies on advancing Holocaust education. Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary...
View ArticleObituary of Fritzie Fritzshall, President of the Illinois Holocaust Museum &...
It is with a heavy heart that we share with you that Auschwitz Survivor and Museum President Fritzie Fritzshall passed away on the morning of June 19th. As a Survivor of the Holocaust and the President...
View ArticleIn Poland, a bill to limit Holocaust restitution advances in parliament
(JTA) — The Polish parliament has advanced a bill that would limit the ability of claimants to seek restitution for property they owned during the Holocaust, triggering a fresh diplomatic spat...
View ArticleIn Slovakia, a retired non-Jewish educator teaches Roma teens about the...
(JTA) — An activist attempting to preserve Jewish cemeteries in Slovakia has recruited several Roma teenagers to help with the task. Vladimir Spanik, 73, involved the teenagers in cleaning up the...
View Article67 headstones damaged at Jewish cemetery in Poland
(JTA) — Dozens of headstones were knocked down, with several destroyed, at a Jewish cemetery in Poland. The incident, the third of its kind since 2015, happened on Saturday and left 67 graves...
View ArticleBelarusian president: Whole world ‘bows’ to Jews due to Holocaust
“Jews were able to make the world remember [the Holocaust], and the whole world bows to them.” • Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the comments “unacceptable.” Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko...
View ArticleArizona passes long-delayed Holocaust education bill after sidelining debate...
(Jewish News of Greater Phoenix via JTA) — When Michael Beller set out three years ago to get a law passed in Arizona requiring Holocaust education in public schools, the response he got was clear....
View ArticleEsther Bejarano, member of Auschwitz orchestra, dies at 96
(JTA) — Esther Bejarano played music while she watched fellow Jews marched to their deaths, and then used it decades later to make sure the crimes she suffered and witnessed would never be repeated....
View ArticleDavid Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor and longtime advocate for restitution,...
(JTA) — David Mermelstein started a group for Holocaust survivors in the Miami area in the 1950s simply because it was so hard communicating with others — even fellow Jews — about the horrors they had...
View ArticleTokyo Olympics creative director fired over 1990s comedy skit mocking the...
(JTA) — The creative director of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony has been fired after a Holocaust joke he made during a 1990s comedy skit drew attention this week. Kentaro Kobayashi, a popular...
View ArticleThe Holocaust is exaggerated in pop culture. That makes it hard for educators...
(Chalkbeat via JTA) — “Hey, I did have one question …” That was the tentative opening to an email I recently received from a high school teacher. The Ninth Candle, the Holocaust education organization...
View ArticleBritish government okays contested Holocaust monument in London
(JTA) — The British government has approved a contested plan for a prominent Holocaust memorial center outside Parliament in London. Friday’s decision by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...
View Article100-year-old former Nazi camp guard to stand trial as accessory to murder of...
(JTA) — A 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been indicted in Germany for being an accessory to murder in 3,500 cases. The defendant, who was not named in the German media, is...
View ArticleGermany looking to prosecute over a dozen more Nazi war criminals
BERLIN (JTA) – As Germany prepares to put a 100-year-old man on trial for Nazi war crimes, public prosecutors in several German states have announced that they are investigating more than a dozen other...
View ArticleFilmmakers constructed an acre-sized shtetl for a Ukrainian WWII film. Now...
(JTA) — In the woods of northern Ukraine, construction workers have built an island in time: a shtetl. That’s the Yiddish word for the type of old-fashioned Jewish towns that existed throughout...
View ArticleCanada unveils new statue to Anne Frank on anniversary of her arrest and...
On Aug. 8, 2021, officials in Edmonton unveiled the first sculpture of Anne Frank anywhere in Canada. The world’s newest memorial to her—a life-sized bronze sculpture gifted by a Dutch-Canadian group...
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