Her Love for France’s First Jewish Prime Minister Made Her Follow Him to...
Jeanne Levylier was smitten with Léon Blum when she was 16 and he was 43. She asked to be allowed to join her beloved in Buchenwald, marry him and be a partner in whatever fate awaited him – as seen in...
View Article‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ star recalls Holocaust survivor grandmother at Emmys
(JTA) — Alex Borstein of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” recalled her Holocaust survivor grandmother’s courage in defying the Nazis at the Emmy...
View ArticleVeterans Affairs department to reverse course and replace tombstones that...
(JTA) — The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it will begin the process of replacing three gravestones bearing swastikas in cemeteries in Texas and Utah, less than a month after saying they...
View ArticleUS government recommends that the Supreme Court hear German museums’ appeal...
The solicitor general’s recent filing suggests the Nazis’ looting of Jewish collections in Germany was a domestic rather than international crime The US Supreme Court may be inching towards granting an...
View ArticleEvidence Emerges of ‘Second Japanese Schindler’ Who Rescued Jews From Nazi...
Evidence has emerged of a second Japanese diplomat who provided visas to European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, raising the prospect that further undiscovered heroes are waiting to be recognized....
View Article60 Minutes Presents: The Lost Music
More than 6 million people, most of them Jews, died in the Holocaust. The music they wrote as a temporary escape, however, did not, thanks in part to the efforts of an Italian composer and pianist.
View ArticleDutch-Jewish WWII hero Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, who saved hundreds of...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, a Dutch-Jewish woman who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust, has died at the age of 96. Goudsmit-Oudkerk, who died Sunday, was the last...
View ArticleNashville Holocaust Memorial vandalized with anti-Semitic messages
(JTA) — A white sheet spray-painted with messages described as anti-Semitic and white supremacist was hung on the walls of the Nashville Holocaust Memorial in Tennessee. The memorial is located on the...
View ArticleAuschwitz memorial and museum will reopen to visitors on July 1
JTA) — The Auschwitz Memorial and the site of the former Nazi camp will reopen to visitors on July 1. The memorial and museum said it will open for guided tours and individual entry beginning on that...
View ArticlePortugal Honors a Diplomat Who Saved Jews From the Nazis
Aristides de Sousa Mendes provided Jews and others in Nazi-occupied France with visas allowing them to flee the country, actions that brought him severe reprisals during his lifetime. Eighty years...
View ArticleAustria breaks ground for Holocaust memorial in Vienna
A new Holocaust memorial will be built in Vienna engraved with the names of 64,000 Austrian Jews killed by the Nazis. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday for the The Memorial to the Jewish...
View ArticleYad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev will step down after 27 years
The chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum told his staff that he will be leaving the position he has held for the past 27 years. Avner Shalev, 81, made the announcement Sunday in a...
View Article‘You Are Not Alone’: Holocaust Survivors Receive Phone Calls, Gift Bags...
For many survivors of the Holocaust, the difficulties of social isolation can be emotional triggers. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Stay Home, Stay Safe initiative was designed to help save lives...
View ArticleIn Lithuania, lawmakers want to dedicate 2021 to honoring an alleged...
Lithuanian lawmakers want to make 2021 the year of Juozas Luksa-Daumantas — a nationalist accused of participating in a Holocaust-era massacre of Jews. The parliament’s Committee on Education and...
View ArticleWith no tourists in Amsterdam, locals are discovering the Anne Frank House
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Under normal circumstances, the queue to enter the Anne Frank House stretches far along this capital city’s Prinsengracht canal. Tourists who had booked their visit at least two...
View ArticleKansas paper equates orders to wear corona masks with Holocaust
Anderson County Review slammed for posting repulsive political cartoon equating Kansas governor’s order to use masks for corona protection with Nazis ordering Jews into cattle cars. A small local...
View ArticleAuschwitz museum says preserved historic site is different from statues...
(JTA) — The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum waded into the current debate over tearing down statues of historical figures, noting that there’s a difference between preserving a historic site and statues...
View ArticleEagles’ DeSean Jackson accepts invitation to visit Auschwitz from Holocaust...
Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson accepted an invitation from a Holocaust survivor to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp after a Zoom meeting. Earlier this month, the 33-year-old...
View ArticleFormer concentration camp guard, 93, gets suspended sentence as accessory to...
BERLIN (JTA) – In likely one of the last such trials, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard was given a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday – a decision that the Simon Wiesenthal...
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AJR Virtual Event: Join Us!
Join us and our partners at the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) next Wednesday, July 29 at 11 a.m. ET | 4 p.m. GMT+1 as they host a virtual forum highlighting the work of the Claims Conference...
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