In Shanghai, a refuge for Jews fleeing Nazi Europe
75 years ago, American troops entered Shanghai to help liberate the city from the Japanese. Surprised upon being told there was a Jewish ghetto in the city, they prepared for the worst. Like the rest...
View ArticleGrandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess, who criticized his family...
(JTA) — About a decade ago, Rainer Hoess began making media appearances to discuss the actions of his grandfather Rudolf, the longest-serving commander of the Auschwitz death camp. Eloquent and...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivors Meeting On Zoom During Pandemic
She has Zoom conferences with her daughters, meets with her doctors, has calls with her friends. She Zooms with docents at the Holocaust museum and now, with the help of Jewish Family Service, she...
View ArticleState Department report assesses progress in Holocaust property restitution...
(JTA) — The State Department released a report that assesses the progress made by 46 countries on the restitution or compensation for property wrongfully seized during the Holocaust. The 200-page...
View ArticleDavid Galante, 94, Auschwitz survivor who taught about the Holocaust after a...
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — It took 50 years for David Galante to begin talking about his experience at Auschwitz. Born to a Sephardic family in Rhodes in 1925, Galante studied in a Jewish school as a child,...
View ArticleDutch-Jewish resistance fighter whose factory was used to make yellow stars...
Henk van Gelderen, a Dutch-Jewish resistance fighter whose textile factory was used to produce yellow stars for the Nazis, died at 98. The De Stentor newspaper reported Tuesday about van Gelderen’s...
View ArticleJewish federations group gets $5 million US grant to help Holocaust survivors
(JTA) — A $5 million U.S. government grant will help a Jewish group care for Holocaust survivors and other adults with a history of trauma and their caregivers. The Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivors call for Facebook to crack down on deniers
NBC’s Harry Smith talks to Holocaust survivors working with the Claims Conference’s NoDenyingIt campaign as they share their personal stories and speak out about combating Holocaust deniers on social...
View ArticleFacebook announces new policy combating anti-Jewish stereotypes
(JTA) — Facebook announced that it would ban posts about Jews controlling the world among several other efforts to combat hate speech. The announcement comes following a monthlong boycott of...
View ArticleHungary’s largest Jewish group expels rabbi who said Zionism is causing...
(JTA) — Hungary’s largest Jewish group expelled a rabbi who has accused Israel of appropriating the money of Holocaust victims and putting Diaspora Jews in danger. The rabbinical council of the...
View ArticleThis Holocaust survivor turned architect designed a memorial honoring...
(JTA) — In the world of New York architecture, Stephen B. Jacobs is known for his multimillion-dollar creations, such as the Hotel Gansevoort, a swanky boutique hotel with a rooftop bar that was the...
View ArticleDelaware to require teaching of the Holocaust and genocide
(JTA) — The state of Delaware will require the teaching of a Holocaust curriculum in middle and high schools starting with the 2021-22 term. A bill signed into law late last month by Gov. John Carney...
View ArticleLithuanian Who Destroyed Memorial to Nazi War Criminal Receives Prison...
Stanislav Tomas destroyed a plaque dedicated to Jonas Noreika, a known Nazi war criminal seen as a national hero by some Lithuanians for his fight against the Communist regime. A Lithuanian human...
View ArticleListen to Max Lezer’s interview for the Claims Conference campaign
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View ArticlePrincipal who made Holocaust comments should not have been fired, judge rules
The former Boca Raton principal who generated a national uproar for his comments about the Holocaust should not have been fired, a judge ruled Thursday. The Palm Beach County School District should...
View ArticleIn Warsaw Ghetto, doctors and others halted typhus outbreak during WWII
Between 1940 and 1943, over 90,000 Jews died in the Warsaw Ghetto of starvation and disease. But that number could have been much higher if not for the efforts of doctors and ghetto officials who...
View ArticleGroup set up by German soccer stars donates $80,000 to Auschwitz museum
(JTA) — A German organization that two professional soccer players established to fight the coronavirus has donated approximately $80,000 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. The...
View ArticleGroup set up by German soccer stars donates $80,000 to Auschwitz museum
(JTA) — A German organization that two professional soccer players established to fight the coronavirus has donated approximately $80,000 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland. The...
View ArticleFacebook algorithm found to ‘actively promote’ Holocaust denial
Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content according to an analysis that will increase pressure on the social media giant to remove antisemitic content relating to the Nazi...
View ArticleThis Holocaust survivor turned architect designed a memorial honoring...
(JTA) — In the world of New York architecture, Stephen B. Jacobs is known for his multimillion-dollar creations, such as the Hotel Gansevoort, a swanky boutique hotel with a rooftop bar that was the...
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