Memorial honors a general and president who preserved memory of the Holocaust
There’s a story about Dwight D. Eisenhower that has become the stuff of legend. After witnessing the horrors of Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany as the supreme commander of the Allied...
View Article75 years ago, my parents and other Holocaust survivors celebrated Sukkot on...
(JTA) — The festival of Sukkot, which begins five days after Yom Kippur, is traditionally referred to as the time of our rejoicing. It is an upbeat, celebratory weeklong holiday during which we are...
View ArticleA Jewish artist hid hundreds of her paintings in a house near Prague during...
(JTA) – Plans are under way to find a home for a huge trove of works by a nearly forgotten Jewish artist that was uncovered 78 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp. The works of Czech...
View ArticleRichard Schifter, Holocaust survivor who later served as a US diplomat, dies...
(JTA) – Richard Schifter, a Holocaust survivor who served as an American diplomat, has died at the age of 97. Schifter was the American representative to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and deputy...
View ArticleIsrael and UAE foreign ministers tour Berlin Holocaust monument in historic...
(JTA) — In a historic meeting, the foreign ministers of Israel and the United Arab Emirates met in Berlin and visited the city’s main Holocaust monument together on Tuesday. Less than a month after...
View ArticleNote found in child’s shoe at Auschwitz leads to discovery of his father’s...
(JTA) — A note found in a child’s shoe at the Auschwitz museum this summer has led researchers to a suitcase that likely belonged to the child’s father. In July, employees of the Auschwitz museum...
View ArticleFIRST-EVER 50-STATE SURVEY ON HOLOCAUST KNOWLEDGE OF AMERICAN MILLENNIALS AND...
Disturbing Findings Reveal Significant Number Of Millennials and Gen Z Can’t Name A Single Concentration Camp Or Ghetto, Believe That Two Million Or Fewer Jews Were Killed And A Concerning Percentage...
View ArticleSexually explicit memoir of women’s abuse in Nazi camps finally sees the light
Second-generation trauma expert Helen Epstein publishes late mother Franci Rabinek Epstein’s manuscript, initially rejected in mid-1970s for being ahead of its time When Czech-American Holocaust...
View ArticleGermany to give $662 million in aid to Holocaust survivors
BERLIN (AP) — Germany has agreed to provide more than a half billion euros to aid Holocaust survivors struggling under the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic, the organization that negotiates...
View ArticleRecognizing Jewish Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust
Memorial institutions are finally working to redress an imbalance in the numbers of Jews versus non-Jews hailed for their heroism in defense of victims of the Shoah Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE),...
View ArticleThe Nazis took a precious kettle from a Jewish couple. Some 86 years later,...
On a recent afternoon, a seemingly unremarkable brown parcel appeared on the front porch of Martin Goldsmith’s home in Kensington, Md. Goldsmith, 68, swiftly pried open the package. With careful...
View ArticleGerman auction house under fire again for selling Hitler papers
(JTA) — Less than a year after it spurred widespread Jewish condemnation for selling Nazi memorabilia, a Munich auction house is selling several manuscripts written by Adolf Hitler. The European Jewish...
View ArticleA Report from Germany by Philipp Sonntag
Dear Friends, In 2019 I wanted to present “Forever Alert” at a WFJCSHD meeting, then again now end of October 2020, and mean meantime we may hope in vain for 2021. So I provide my book now free of...
View ArticleHolocaust survivors are angry that a far-right politician has been nominated...
(JTA) — Israeli Holocaust survivor organizations are calling the man nominated to lead the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum “unfit” for the job. Effi Eitam, a former lawmaker who has said that...
View ArticleRiga Holocaust museum to remain open after city waives rent
(JTA) — The city government of Riga, Latvia, waived its demand for rent from a Holocaust museum whose director said it couldn’t afford to pay. The Riga City Council on Monday withdrew its intention to...
View ArticleBritish lawyers, activists seek to dismantle racist, anti-Semitic YouTube...
(November 2, 2020 / JNS) Google Play banned the third-party app BitChute this week, which was promoted as a “free speech” alternative to YouTube that has become a safe haven for neo-Nazis, hosting...
View ArticleGunmen open fire near Jewish community center, synagogue in Vienna
(November 2, 2020 / JNS) Gunmen opened fire near a synagogue and Jewish community center in Vienna on Monday, allegedly targeting two restaurants, according to official reports, videos and photos...
View ArticleFlorida school board reverses decision to reinstate principal fired for...
(November 2, 2020 / JNS) The principal of a high school in the heavily Jewish city of Boca Raton, Fla., who was initially reinstated earlier this month after being fired last year after he declined to...
View ArticleMarch of the Living launches global interfaith initiative to commemorate...
(November 3, 2020 / JNS) A two-day pogrom began on Nov. 9, 1938, during which the Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues and Jewish institutions in Germany and Austria. Indeed, Kristallnacht (“The...
View ArticleHeadstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Moldova and Hungary
(JTA) — Headstones were smashed and graves defaced at Jewish cemeteries in Hungary and Moldova. At least five headstones were destroyed at a cemetery in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on Saturday,...
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