NY banks urged to waive transfer, processing fees for Holocaust reparation...
(December 24, 2021 / JNS) The New York State Department of Financial Services has asked state-chartered financial institutions to waive wire transfer and processing fees for recipients of Holocaust...
View ArticleSurviving the Holocaust was a miracle, but the nightmares persist
The memories of Holocaust survivors never cease to horrify. Whenever you think you’re shock-proof, you have to think again. In John Rokosny’s PBS documentary, “They Survived Together,” one survivor...
View ArticleThe Holocaust robbed them of their stories; this artist is bringing them back...
In his new graphic nonfiction narrative book “When I Grow Up, the Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers,” author and New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein deftly gives life to the never-told...
View ArticleA Film Captures Jewish Life in a Polish Town Before the Nazis Arrived
A documentary based on a home movie shot by an American in 1938 provides a look at the vibrancy of a Jewish community in Europe just before the Holocaust. AMSTERDAM — Glenn Kurtz found the film reel in...
View ArticleRubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler
It was a startling disappearing act, one for the ages. Right at the moment when Hitler killed himself in his bunker on April 30, 1945, Germany was magically transformed from a genocidal Reich to a...
View Article80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the ‘Final Solution.’ It Took 90 Minutes.
As Germany observes the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, witnesses of the Nazi era are dying and antisemitism is resurgent in Europe and the United States. BERLIN — On Jan. 20, 1942, 15...
View Article‘Auschwitz did not fall from the sky’
Austria is using art to come to terms with its dark role during Nazism — but is that enough to counter the recent rise of antisemitism? “The racism and anti-Semitism of the National Socialists did not...
View ArticleOpinion | The Real Reason Belarus’ Dictatorial Regime Is Downplaying the...
We cannot be naïve. The recent WWII genocide law, which falsely equalizes the Holocaust with Nazi reprisals against non-Jewish Belarusians, is as much about history as it is about today: Anchoring the...
View ArticleA musician’s project sheds new light on artistic life in the Terezín...
(JTA) — Over the past several decades, the Terezín concentration camp has come to be synonymous with the music of the Holocaust because of the number of performers who were imprisoned there. Now, in...
View ArticleThis Filmmaker Dares to Question the Figure of 6 Million Jewish Victims in WWII
How did the devastating, albeit too round number of 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust become so profoundly embedded in our minds? In his new documentary Israeli filmmaker David Fisher dares to...
View ArticleHow a Last Letter From a Holocaust Victim Inspired an Album of Jewish Choral...
British vocal ensemble Mosaic Voices wants the world to hear that there’s much more to Jewish music than just klezmer. Look out Gregorian chanting, ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ is coming for you. LONDON – On July...
View ArticleGerman teens and young adults are interested in learning about the Holocaust...
BERLIN (JTA) — A new survey of youth in Germany shows growing interest in Nazi-era history, but it also suggests that their attention span is shrinking. According to the study conducted by the...
View ArticleLiviu Beris, Romanian Holocaust survivor who became a genetics pioneer and...
BUCHAREST (JTA) — Liviu Beris, who survived the Holocaust in Transnistria to become an internationally recognized geneticist, died last week at 93 in Romania, where he tirelessly shared his personal...
View ArticleMel Mermelstein, survivor who beat Holocaust deniers in court, dies at 95
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Mel Mermelstein, a Holocaust survivor who won a five-year court battle forcing a right-wing Holocaust-denying organization to retract its claim and pay hefty damages, died Jan. 28...
View ArticleArizona Jews sue to stop the state from executing people with Zyklon B, which...
(Jewish News of Greater Phoenix via JTA) — Leaders of Arizona’s Jewish community are suing the state to prevent it from using hydrogen cyanide, the same lethal gas that was deployed at Auschwitz, to...
View ArticleHis Jewish wedding at a Nazi enclave was a ‘middle finger extended to...
(JTA) — Felice Jacobs and Alan Feldstein could have tied the knot in Phoenix, where they met and where his mother worked at the local Reform synagogue. Or they could have held their wedding on the...
View ArticleMontreal’s Holocaust Museum relocating to new $80 million site in historic...
(JTA) — The Montreal Holocaust Museum, which first opened its doors in 1979, will move into a new $80 million site in the city’s historic Jewish quarter in Plateau Mont-Royal by 2025. Lined with hip...
View ArticleHe survived a Nazi work camp to shape the world of modern film
In October 1949, Jonas Mekas arrived in New York City broke and nearly broken. The Lithuanian artist had survived a Nazi work camp and several years as a refugee, and was supposed to travel on to...
View ArticleHUMANITARIAN CRISES IN UKRAINE
The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants (WFJCSHD) is deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis now occurring in Ukraine. As survivors, and children and...
View ArticleUkraine says a memorial to Jews murdered during the Holocaust was damaged by...
(JTA) — A memorial to Jews murdered during the Holocaust near Kharkiv was damaged by Russian shelling Saturday, according to Ukraine’s government. Photos from the site showed the memorial’s 9-foot-tall...
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