Ukrainian researchers find Lviv sewer where dozens of Jews escaped Nazis
The location of the underground hideouts remained unknown until a team of archaeologists inspired by a 2011 Polish movie about the saga discovered a secret chamber where at least 20 Jews lived. The...
View ArticleSecretary of Evil: True she is 96 and her alleged complicity in the horrors...
Eighty years ago this weekend, a young SS recruit started working as a guard at Sachsenhausen, the concentration camp close to Berlin conceived by Nazi leaders as a potent symbol of their power. His...
View ArticleNovember 7, 2021 event! How the Holocaust Impacts on Our Lives Today and Why...
We miss seeing everyone and have decided to present virtual programs to keep in touch until we can meet again in person. Our first program will be How the Holocaust Impacts on Our Lives Today and Why...
View ArticleFor Holocaust Scholar, Another Confrontation With Neo-Nazi Hate
WASHINGTON — Deborah E. Lipstadt, a renowned Holocaust scholar, was not in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 when torch-bearing neo-Nazi marchers chanted “Jews will not replace us” and a young woman...
View ArticleAt least 9 former Nazis died in the US while awaiting deportation. 3 House...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In 1992, the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations learned that before moving to the United States, a Brooklyn potato chip salesman had participated in...
View Article18 Year Old Spanish Fascist Receives German Nazi Scholarship
The 18-year-old Isabel Peralta has since received a ten-month scholarship in Dusseldorf “to learn techniques for propaganda and combat.” The host is the German neo-Nazi group, “Der III Weg” (the Third...
View ArticleAlbert Speer, Hitler’s architect, tried to make a movie about his life. A new...
(JTA) — Historical memory, now and forever, is an extraordinarily messy thing. Most prefer to paper over it rather than address it head-on. So it’s not surprising that, when given the chance, a member...
View ArticleMy German-Jewish grandmother’s childhood autograph book survived the...
(JTA) — In 1916, in the picturesque German village of Heinebach, a 14-year-old girl named Elisabeth Schmidtkunz penned a sweet message in her classmate Jenny Katz’s autograph book. “Jenny! Get to know...
View ArticleA 94-year-old Holocaust survivor makes her feature film debut – and a new...
It is rare, I think, to leap from making matzoh balls to making movies. But it is even rarer, I imagine, to land the leap with élan. Yet this is the accomplishment of “Trop d’amour,” a film by a young...
View ArticleDecimated in the Holocaust, a Norwegian Jewish community revives
The Jewish community in Bergen — Norway’s second largest city — was decimated during World War II, when Nazis murdered 750 of Norway’s 1,700 Jews. But now Jewish life in Bergen has returned —...
View ArticleA Holocaust survivor’s visit to her childhood home transports her to the past
(November 9, 2021 / JNS) Standing in the foyer of her childhood home at Reilstraße 18 in Halle, Germany, nonagenarian Eve Kugler recalled fleeing her hometown soon after Kristallnacht when she was a...
View ArticleOn 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht, Austria dedicates new memorial to...
(November 9, 2021 / JNS) On the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht and in a clear gesture that it is finally taking public responsibility for its past, the government of Austria unveiled the Shoah Wall...
View ArticleIn UK poll, most respondents don’t know how many Jews perished in the Holocaust
(JTA) — In a survey among 2,000 adult Britons, 52% did not seem to know how many Jews died in the Holocaust and 22% couldn’t name a single concentration camp. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims...
View ArticleParis court hands life sentence to murderer of Holocaust survivor
(JTA) — A French court sentenced a man to life in prison for what it termed the antisemitic murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris in 2018. The murderer of Mirelle Knoll, Yacine Mihoub, will be...
View ArticleDr. Irit Felsen Speaks to the WF
Dr. Irit Felsen speaks on Generations of Holocaust Survivors and “How the Holocaust affects us and why our gatherings mean so much to us” The talk, 1.5 hours, followed by a discussion with...
View ArticleJewish historian refuses award from Polish government’s history institute,...
WARSAW (JTA) — Jewish American historian Eliyana Adler refused to accept an award worth $19,000 from the Polish government’s Pilecki Institute, arguing that it suppresses work by “historians who strive...
View ArticleJewish historian refuses award from Polish government’s history institute,...
WARSAW (JTA) — Jewish American historian Eliyana Adler refused to accept an award worth $19,000 from the Polish government’s Pilecki Institute, arguing that it suppresses work by “historians who strive...
View Article86-year-old crowned ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ in Israeli pageant
JERUSALEM, Nov 16 (Reuters) – An 86-year-old great-grandmother was crowned “Miss Holocaust Survivor” on Tuesday in an annual Israeli beauty pageant designed to honour women who endured the horrors of...
View ArticleSurvivor to ex-Nazi camp guard: ‘You’ve lived 100 times longer than baby Erika
Holocaust survivor Emil Farkas of Haifa was one of the best gymnasts in Israeli sports history. He was Israeli National champion twice and won multiple medals in the Maccabiah Games. But his greatest...
View ArticleOwner of controversial Nazi tattoo kit to donate it to Holocaust museum
(November 18, 2021 / Israel Hayom) The anonymous owner of a tattoo kit said to have been used on prisoners in the Auschwitz death camp informed an Israeli court on Thursday that he plans to donate it...
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