80th Anniversary of Kindertransport Marked with Compensation Payment to...
Please take note of this article published Monday on the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport from the Claims Conference. Finally, compensation has been announced!...
View ArticleInteresting article on the theory of inheriting trauma
Especially because this topic was addressed by a plenary speaker at the recent WFJCSHD conference and is so controversial, please take note of this article published in the science section of last...
View ArticleNew Report on Antisemitism in Europe
We’re all troubled by the reports of increasing antisemitism. This report from the American Jewish Committee is not surprising but is so concerning. AJC Urges EU Nations to Act on Dismaying New...
View ArticleVideos from the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research...
New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the November Pogrom in Global Comparison November 5-7, 2018 University of Southern California, Los Angeles Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation...
View ArticleThe Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany announces new Fund...
In the 80th anniversary year of the Kindertransports, the Claims Conference announced an agreement with the German government to provide compensation payments for child survivors of the...
View ArticleNew Museum at Sobibor
Germany is allocating new funds towards the building of a museum at former concentration camp, Sobibor.
View ArticleArmenia Honors Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin coined the term, “Antisemitism” and a street is being named for him in Armenia..
View ArticleGeorges Loinger, Jewish French Resistance Fighter
Georges Loinger, Jewish French Resistance Fighter has died at the age of 108. He saved over 100 Jewish children together with the OSE.
View ArticleForgotten history in the Netherlands
A Dutch couple find forgotten Holocaust history in their countryside home
View ArticleBelgian mayor defends carnival float featuring Jews with money and a rat
JTA — The mayor of the Belgian city whose annual parade featured puppets of Jews and a rat atop money bags defended the display, telling the local media that “In Aalst it should be allowed.” Christoph...
View ArticleMy Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports screening in New York...
A film by Melissa Hacker, Narrated by Joanne Woodward Join director Melissa Hacker and NPR journalist Uri Berliner to watch and discuss the first documentary film to tell the heart-wrenching story of...
View ArticleDr. Charles Silow is honored by the DAR
One of our “own” leaders, Charlie Silow has been recognized by the DAR for his work with Holocaust Survivors over the past 25 years. We’re so proud! Read more…. Dr. Charles Silow, director of the...
View ArticleNazi Looted Painting is Returned
On Monday evening, the 1639 painting A Scholar Sharpening His Quill, by the Dutch master Salomon Koninck, will be returned to the family of Adolphe Schloss at the French consulate in New York. Schloss...
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Daughters of the American Revolution
On Sunday, March 24, 2019, at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) gave me their “Americanism Medal” for naturalized citizens who...
View ArticleCalling All Bloggers!
Dear Friends, We have an exciting new feature on our website. On the “Blog” section, members can post news about what is going on in their local Survivor communities around the world, members can post...
View ArticleWhy I attend the WFJCSHD conferences, A Second Generation Perspective
You know those amazing moments when you meet someone for the first time and unexpectedly you just “click”? On the surface, you have little in common—you live in different cities, maybe even different...
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News from Croatia
Commemoration of Holocaust Victims by Melita Svob The Jewish community of Croatia organized a commemoration in Jasenovac, the main concentration camp in Croatia, for Jewish, Serbian, Roma and...
View ArticleIsrael Preserves Holocaust Survivors’ Memorbilia
Through its “Gathering the Fragments” program, Yad Vashem has collected some 250,000 items from survivors and their families in recent years to be stored for posterity and displayed online in hopes of...
View ArticleGreek Jews honor Crete community drowned in entirety en route to Auschwit
ATHENS — Seventy-five years ago, in May 1944, the Nazis rounded up the entire Jewish population of Crete and forced them onto a tanker ship called the Tanais. The Nazis planned to bring the Jews to...
View ArticleGerman Child Survivors in Action
On 13 April 2001, the Association of Child Survivors in Germany (Child Survivors Deutschland, CSD) was established, nearly fifty-five years after the end of the Holocaust. The group, initially modest...
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