Luxembourg to distribute $1.1 million in restitution to Holocaust survivors
(November 18, 2021 / JNS) The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) announced that the Claims Conference has begun allocating $1.1 million to Holocaust survivors who are currently living in or...
View ArticleA mile from Auschwitz, a restored synagogue recalls thriving Jewish life in...
OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — In a typical, pre-pandemic year, about 2.3 million people a year visit Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp where nearly 1 million Jews were murdered. About 30,000 — or...
View ArticleJustus Rosenberg, professor and last surviving member of group that smuggled...
(JTA) — Justus Rosenberg, a professor whose long career teaching literature was preceded by a remarkable tenure in the French resistance during World War II, died last month at the age of 100....
View ArticleItalian politician apologizes for referring to Holocaust survivor by her...
(JTA) — A local politician in Italy apologized for referring to a well-known Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre by her concentration camp tattoo number in a Facebook comment criticizing her support for...
View ArticleIn Poland, plans to build a museum on Schindler survivors’ former camp spark...
KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — The concentration camp that the Nazis built in the heart of this picturesque city was “the innermost circle of hell” to Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson. Executions at Plaszow,...
View ArticleAmid the Holocaust’s Horrors, Many Jews Found Ways to Mark Hanukkah
There was little room for light in Theresienstadt—especially in the darkness of early December. Some 140,000 Czech Jews came through the Nazi camp-ghetto and holding pen, with almost one in four...
View ArticleFacebook still failing to remove Holocaust denialism, new ADL report finds
Facebook continues to allow individuals and some groups to share Holocaust denial content, despite a policy change last year aimed at targeting this issue, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation...
View ArticleAn Israeli documentary chronicles a real-life relationship between an...
(JTA) — “Nazisploitation,” a pop-culture subgenre that draws on imagery and stories from the Holocaust for winkingly perverse entertainment, is built around the idea that there are bad-taste ways to...
View ArticleA tree that survived the Holocaust gains a new life in New York City
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In January of 1943, Irma Lauscher, a teacher at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, smuggled a tree into the camp so that the Jewish children...
View ArticlePrime Minister honours teen who co-wrote great-grandmother’s Auschwitz memoir
A teenage author who co-wrote his Auschwitz-surviving great-grandmother’s memoir has been honoured by the Prime Minister. Dov Forman, 17, was awarded the Points of Light Award by Boris Johnson at...
View ArticleIn Israel for Miss Universe competition, Puerto Rican contestant reveals that...
(JTA) — When she won the privilege of representing Puerto Rico in the Miss Universe contest, Michelle Marie Colon spoke of her pride in making history as the first Black woman from the territory to...
View ArticleAn Israeli documentary about Albert Speer falsified key material, one of its...
(JTA) — A screenwriter who worked with Albert Speer to try to turn the infamous Nazi architect’s life into a movie is charging that an award-winning Israeli documentary about Speer makes significant...
View ArticleWith an apology, Germany returns reparations to Holocaust survivor’s kin
A German official has apologized to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor for demanding she return 72.55 euros that the government had mistakenly paid out to her deceased mother after she died in...
View ArticleA German cellist’s obsession: Reuniting a family scattered by the Holocaust
The house in the German city of Stralsund was once home to a Jewish family named Blach and its leather business. It stood through Nazism and the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1994, a married...
View ArticleA baby was taken from her mother’s arms in the Holocaust. The family just...
The sisters knew they had an older sister, but they had never met her, and it was a mystery whether she was even alive. Dena Morris and Jean Gearhart had been told the shocking family story: As a...
View ArticleD.C. third-graders were made to reenact episodes from the Holocaust
A Watkins Elementary School staff member told third-graders in library class to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, directing them to dig their classmates’ mass graves and simulate shooting the victims,...
View ArticleGreek-Jewish archives return home nearly 80 years after they were looted by...
(JTA) — The Greek-Jewish community is celebrating the return of a trove of manuscripts and community documents that the Nazis had stolen nearly 80 years ago. The Central Board of Jewish Communities in...
View Article‘Holocoste’ sweatshirt taken down by Ukrainian Jewish group
Thousands of stores sell knockoff brand merchandise. But one decided to take it a step further by bringing antisemitism into it with a “Holocoste” sweatshirt, featuring a crocodile like the Lacoste...
View ArticleFrom a Budapest attic to the New York Knicks: A Holocaust survivor’s family...
For the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, the irony of Dan Grunfeld’s first contract offer to play professional basketball was a bit on-the-nose. It was not just that it came from Germany. The team...
View ArticleJack Feldman, Holocaust survivor who told his story in Emmy-winning...
(JTA) — In 2016, Jack Feldman’s 10-year-old great-grandson asked him about the number tattooed on his skin. Their conversation became the basis of the short HBO documentary “The Number on...
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