David Shneer, professor who led student visits to prewar Yiddishland, dies at 48
Read this article in Yiddish David Shneer, a widely admired history professor and director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, died November 4 in Denver of brain...
View ArticleWho would marry a Nazi leader — and why?
It is a cliché of Holocaust history to remark on the jarring contrast between the domestic lives of Nazi perpetrators and their murderous deeds. Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key architects of the...
View ArticleGreek newspaper likens Pfizer’s Jewish CEO with the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele...
(JTA) — A Greek newspaper whose publisher was convicted recently of anti-Semitic defamation warned its readers that Pfizer’s Jewish CEO will “stick the needle” into them while calling the...
View ArticleHryhoriy Arshynov, restorer of Jewish cemeteries across Ukraine
Hryhoriy Arshynov died of COVID-19 on Nov. 1, 2020. (JTA) — Five years ago, a plea to rescue a centuries-old synagogue in Ostroh, Ukraine, struck a chord with Hryhoriy Arshynov, a lifelong Jewish...
View ArticleHow the Nazis stole a cookbook
Alice Urbach’s cookbook was a bestseller in the 1930s in German-speaking countries. A Jew, she fled her home under the Nazis, who republished the book under a different name without giving her credit....
View ArticleThere’s a fight brewing over who will lead Israel’s Holocaust museum
(JTA) — One of the latest political disputes in Israel is happening in an unlikely place — the national Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. News emerged in August that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
View ArticleNew adult animation about liberators of Dachau
The Liberator This experiment in adult animation was actually shot with live actors and animated after the fact, like that one Instagram filter. It tells the World War II story of Felix Sparks (read...
View ArticleNew synagogue will open on Nazi killing grounds of Babyn Yar in Ukraine
(JTA) — A new synagogue is planned to open in Babyn Yar, the park in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv commemorating a ravine where the Nazis and their collaborators murdered more than 30,000 Jews. The new...
View ArticleWhy the exhibit on the Warsaw Jewish quarter, Muranow, is so good
When I first heard that Warsaw’s Polin Museum had an exhibit about Muranow, the former Jewish quarter of the Polish capital, my first instinct was to buy a ticket to Warsaw – until I remembered that...
View ArticleThis non-Jewish leader is working to clean up Poland’s forgotten Jewish...
(JTA) — National Independence Day in Poland has served in recent years as a backdrop for anti-Semitic, xenophobic and violent incidents at nationalist rallies. Last week, thousands in Warsaw flouted...
View ArticleSwastikas carved into Jewish headstones, spray-painted on memorials in Germany
(JTA) — Amid a recent spate of incidents against Jewish targets in Germany, swastikas were etched into headstones at a cemetery. The vandalism discovered this week in Haren, a northwestern town about...
View ArticleThe Signing of the Righteous Gentiles Fund agreement between the Claims...
“I deeply appreciate that I am in this program. I am grateful and I believe this makes my life longer,” remarked Stanislawa, a Righteous Gentile from Poland. An agreement for the Righteous Gentiles...
View ArticleA family’s secret language, a reckoning with a Nazi past
As a young boy growing up in Germany Martin Puchner loved to hear his family use Rotwelsch, an obscure argot of slightly suspicious words, colorful-sounding phrases, and even rudimentary symbols used...
View ArticleDavid Hackett, Historian and Holocaust Expert, Dies at 80
Professor Hackett translated “The Buchenwald Report,” a vital account of life at the Buchenwald concentration camp. He died of the coronavirus.
View ArticleUkrainian Jewish professor says he was fired for protesting statue of leader...
(JTA) — A Jewish journalism professor says he was fired from a Ukrainian university for his opposition to a statue honoring a militia leader whose troops killed Jews in pogroms. The case is a rare...
View Article6 prominent Holocaust survivors have died in Europe over the past month
(JTA) — The constant stream of breaking news about American politics and the coronavirus pandemic has hidden a sobering fact: Six prominent Holocaust survivors who had dedicated much of their lives to...
View ArticleAfter the Holocaust, displaced by indifference and paralysis
In the aftermath of World War II, Europe was in chaos, with millions homeless and in flight from violence, persecution or retribution for wartime crimes. Some had survived concentration camps; others...
View ArticleHolocaust Families – What we Learned from Elie Wiesel Online Discussion
Dr. Robert Krell, a speaker at several WF Conferences, participated in an online presentation: Holocaust Families – What we Learned from Elie Wiesel A conversation with Dr. Robert Krell, child...
View ArticleBritish soccer’s Premier League endorses international Holocaust group’s...
(JTA) — The Premier League, a consortium comprising the United Kingdom’s top 20 soccer clubs, has endorsed the definition of anti-Semitism established by the International Holocaust Remembrance...
View ArticleEU invites all member states to adopt definition of anti-Semitism that...
(JTA) — The Council of the European Union, which is a key driver of EU policy, “invited” all the bloc’s 27 members to adopt a definition of anti-Semitism that includes anti-Israel vitriol. The...
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