A Ukrainian director’s documentary about Babyn Yar massacre of Jews lands in...
(JTA) – Is now the right moment to examine the ways Ukrainians collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust? More than a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started a...
View ArticleUkrainian Holocaust Survivors Escape to Germany for Safety
When the bombs started falling on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, last month, Tatyana Zhuravliova had a horrible deja vu: the 83-year-old Ukrainian Jew felt the same panic she suffered as a little girl when...
View ArticleHelen Epstein: Drawing on the Past to Meet the Crises of the Present
Helen Epstein, author of the groundbreaking Children of the Holocaust speaks with the WF 4.10.2022. The topic is “Drawing on the past to meet the crises of our present.” She speaks about how her...
View ArticleCanada set to outlaw Holocaust denial
(JTA) — Canada is set to outlaw Holocaust denial, a move that has the backing of the governing Liberal Party government coalition and the opposition Conservative Party. The CTV reported on Saturday...
View ArticleKen Burns’ next documentary is about the US response to the Holocaust
(JTA) — For his next historical deep dive, famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is exploring America’s relationship to the Holocaust. Tentatively titled “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” the three-part...
View ArticleAndor Stern, recognized as the only Brazilian-born Holocaust survivor, dies...
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Andor Stern, who is recognized by the Brazilian Holocaust Memorial as the only Brazilian-born Holocaust survivor, died in Sao Paulo on Thursday at 94. Stern was born in Sao Paulo...
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For a Jewish reporter with Eastern European roots, one of the hardest challenges covering the war is reconciling the horrors of the Holocaust with the Poland and Ukraine of today.The post first...
View ArticleThis Amsterdam neighborhood was once inhabited by Jews. None are left to...
Outside 58 Weidestraat in Amsterdam’s Betondorp district, two brass stones lie set into the sidewalk. Known by the Dutch as stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones,” the square plaques are engraved with...
View ArticleThey were prisoners in the Holocaust together. They just reunited. They met...
The last time Jack Waksal saw Sam Ron was in 1943, at the peak of World War II. They shoveled coal, side by side, at a forced labor camp in Pionki, Poland. Over the past eight decades, Waksal wondered...
View ArticleGerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor who became author, humanitarian and...
(JTA) – With Allied forces swiftly approaching during the liberation of the concentration camps, Nazis barricaded Gerda Weissmann Klein and other Jewish survivors inside a barn, planting a time bomb...
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The Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine 7.24.2022
Jonathan Ornstein, executive director of the Jewish Community Centre of Krakow, and Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, speak with members of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors...
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The 2022 WF Conference in St Louis was a great success!
After 2 long years, the community gathered together, 4 generations strong, for an in-person conference. Memories, tears, insights, joy, and dances were shared, longtime connections renewed and new...
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St Louis Conference 2022: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the USC Shoah...
Preserving Holocaust History Through Artifacts and Research. Experts from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will present on how they continue rescuing the evidence of the Holocaust and...
View ArticleThe World Federation is Hiring!
The World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Descendants is seeking a Conference Coordinator to handle logistics of our annual conferences. These international conferences, which...
View ArticleCanada set to outlaw Holocaust denial
(JTA) — Canada is set to outlaw Holocaust denial, a move that has the backing of the governing Liberal Party government coalition and the opposition Conservative Party. The CTV reported on Saturday...
View Article2023 Conference Program
The 2023 World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants conference, in conjunction with Generations of the Shoah International and The Kindertransport Association, will be held...
View ArticleSeattle Holocaust Center for Humanity Vandalized
In mid-June 2024, the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle was vandalized. A photo of a Kindertransport Child Survivor of the Holocaust which was in the front window of the Center was desecrated....
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We are looking forward to the 2024 Conference in Toronto September 20-23.
We invite Holocaust Survivor Generations to join us! Register here by September 11 The post We are looking forward to the 2024 Conference in Toronto September 20-23. first appeared on World Federation...
View Article2024 CONFERENCE
The 2024 World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants conference, in conjunction with Generations of the Shoah International and The Kindertransport Association, was held September...
View Article2024 Conference Program
The 2024 World Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Descendants conference, in conjunction with Generations of the Shoah International and The Kindertransport Association, was held September...
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