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Dallas News (blog)
April 25, 2018
This week, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC opens a new exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust, which examines the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s and the breadth of American response to Nazism, World War II and the Nazi-sponsored genocide of European Jews. A majorÃâà...
Herald Sun
April 25, 2018
Dr Abramovich said there was nothing remotely funny in what Mr Shaffir said, and Holocaust survivors, who lost families and loved ones in the concentration camps, would not find his routine in any way amusing. It was made worse that Shaffir said it during the week-long Yom HaShoa, a time of HolocaustÃâà...
The Daily Northwestern
April 25, 2018
In his new exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, history Prof. Daniel Greene said he wanted to convey how the context of American society shaped the country's response to the threat of Nazism. Americans and the Holocaust, the exhibition curated by Greene, opened Monday at theÃâà...
Lewiston Sun Journal
April 24, 2018
LEWISTON — A courageous woman's testament to love, “Etty's Song,” will be presented at 7 p.m. Friday, April 27, as the first of L/A Arts' Holocaust remembrance programs. The program, featuring Off the Page, an ensemble of two poets and a musician, will take place at The Gallery, 221 Lisbon St.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
April 24, 2018
(JTA) — A U.S. senator will bring a French Holocaust survivor to hear President Emmanuel Macron of France speak to a joint session of Congress. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, invited Fran Greenberg of Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, to Wednesday's address. Greenberg is a native of Paris who moved toÃâà...
jewishpresspinellas
April 24, 2018
Szczepinska will present online resources that have the most updated information based on the latest historical research. She will also demonstrate how to use archival databases to look for information about individuals who perished in the Holocaust by Bullets. Retrieving identities of individual victims isÃâà...
WAMU 88.5
April 24, 2018
That eyewitness perspective has been an invaluable resource for the Holocaust Museum since it first opened 25 years ago this week. Peabody is part of a team of more than 80 survivors who fill a wide variety of roles as volunteers, from translating primary source documents for the collections to completingÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
April 24, 2018
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill to help Holocaust survivors and the families of victims obtain restitution or the return of Holocaust-era assets. The measure approved Tuesday requires the State Department to report on the progress of certain EuropeanÃâà...
Forward
April 24, 2018
“This inappropriate title displays an unkind and shocking insensitivity to Holocaust survivors, Jews, and all decent, human-rights-loving people around the world,” wrote Klein, who identifies himself as a child of Holocaust survivors in the statement. “Any attempts to compare the genocide of the Holocaust toÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
April 24, 2018
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, I'm alarmed that our country is forgetting the genocide ... When my parents, Martin and Ann Donald, arrived safely in the United States in 1948, having survived the Holocaust of World War II, they believed that the nations of the world would never, ever forget what theÃâà...
Cincinnati.com
April 23, 2018
On April 12, the world commemorated annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is a day set aside to recall the horror, and to honor the 6 million Jewish victims, of the murderous Nazi regime. It may seem untimely to be publishing an article several days after the event. But news published on April 12, andÃâà...
NPR
April 23, 2018
A new exhibit that opens Monday at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum aims to honor a founding mission. Five years in the making, "Americans and the Holocaust" contextualizes attitudes in the U.S. during 1930s and '40s persecution and mass murder of Jews in Europe. Twenty-five years ago,Ãâà...
New York Times
April 12, 2018
Thirty-one percent of Americans, and 41 percent of millennials, believe that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust; the actual number is around six million. Forty-one percent of Americans, and 66 percent of millennials, cannot say what Auschwitz was. And 52 percent of Americans wronglyÃâà...
Daily Inter Lake
April 2, 2018
Holocaust survivor Pete Metzelaar will share his story in a lecture at Flathead Valley Community College on April 10. When Metzelaar was 7 years old, Nazis stormed his family's home in Amsterdam and seized everyone except for him and his mother. The Dutch Underground contacted Klaus and RoefinaÃâà...
Poughkeepsie Journal
April 2, 2018
The inaugural Holocaust Remembrance Day Morgenthau Lecture, “The United States Government's Reaction to Kristallnacht,” is set for April 11 at 2 p.m., according to the FDR Library. It's part of The Henry Morgenthau Jr. Holocaust Collections: A Curatorial Project, a library initiative to discover archivedÃâà...
Haaretz
April 2, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Daniel Knoll, the son of slain Parisian Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, in a phone call Sunday that “the people of Israel and the state of Israel embrace you.” “This horrifying murder,” added Netanyahu, “reminds us of how the struggles of our people are still ahead ofÃâà...
The Australian
April 2, 2018
Julian Burnside has agreed to meet with Holocaust survivors including Mr Fiszman after he was condemned for sharing a picture on Twitter of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton dressed as a Nazi. Mr Burnside, a prominent barrister, has apologised to anyone who was offended by the picture he retweetedÃâà...
Chambersburg Public Opinion
April 2, 2018
CHAMBERSBURG - The 40th annual Holocaust memorial service sponsored by the United Churches of the Chambersburg Area will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 8 at the Congregation Sons of Israel Synagogue, 209 E. King St., in Chambersburg. The interfaith service will include hymns, scripture,Ãâà...
MyCentralJersey.com
April 1, 2018
EAST BRUNSWICK – Before Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 11, the East Brunswick Public Library will present the fifth and final annual installment in the series “The Jews of Eastern Europe Before The Holocaust” at 2:30 p.m. April 8. This year's program will focus on the Jews of Tsarist Russia andÃâà...
The Boston Globe
March 31, 2018
In Greece during the Holocaust, Sara Fortis recruited other women to fight against Nazis and their collaborators. In France, a 10-year-old Jewish boy named Bernard Musmand pretended to be Catholic so he could attend boarding school, where he delivered falsified papers to help people escape the Nazis.
Sojourners
March 28, 2018
Experts on world anti-Semitism have long known that Arabic-language media outlets and social media are full of anti-Semitic cartoons, articles, and opinion columns that portray Jews and Israelis as evil monsters. But knowing about the problem isn't the same as addressing it. How to deal with the problemÃâà...
Forward
March 28, 2018
(JTA) — A Texas state representative opposed to gun control posted a meme on her Facebook page suggesting that gun control led to the deaths of children in the Holocaust. Valoree Swanson, who describes herself as a Conservative Republican on her personal Facebook page, deleted the image fromÃâà...
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
March 28, 2018
An art exhibit by Ariella Lindenfeld '18 titled “Never Forget” featured artistic reflections and historical artifacts from the Holocaust and continued even after newspaper clippings valued at $2,500 went missing on March 26. Lindenfeld, who began working on the project over a year ago, said her interest in theÃâà...
New York Times
March 28, 2018
The aide, Leila Dessante, would clean the small second-floor apartment, cook lunch and keep company with Ms. Knoll, a 85-year-old grandmother and Holocaust survivor. “She would take my face in between her hands and always ask, 'How are you doing today, sweetheart?'” Ms. Dessante recalled onÃâà...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
March 27, 2018
(JTA) — French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the suspected murder of a Holocaust survivor in Paris, which he called “appalling” before vowing to fight anti-Semitism. Macron made the comment on Twitter on Tuesday about the March 23 slaying of Mirelle Knoll, 85, whose torched body wasÃâà...
CNN
March 27, 2018
Eva Mozes Kor (@EvaMozesKor) is a Holocaust survivor. Along with her twin sister, Miriam, she was subjected to human experimentation under Josef Mengele (the Angel of Death) at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Mohammed Alaa Ghanem (@MhdAGhanem) is a SyrianÃâà...
KBTX
March 24, 2018
(KBTX) - A German Holocaust survivor shared his story of persecution with hundreds of Texas A&M students and the community. Bert Romberg gave a guest lecture Thursday night at Rudder Theatre. He was invited by Hillel at Texas A&M University for the free event. Romberg was born in Germany duringÃâà...
91.5 KIOS-FM
March 24, 2018
“Looking at it from the lens of the Holocaust allows people a little bit of a separation before they really delve into their own history, so I do think the Holocaust element of it is very important, because most students know something about the Holocaust. And it allows them a place where they can start aÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 24, 2018
The fourth annual Six Million Steps to Holocaust Awareness walk brought the community together on a recent Sunday morning at the Coral Springs Sportsplex Track with the intention of heightening the awareness of the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust. The participants walked in the memory ofÃâà...
Newsweek
March 23, 2018
Updated| An Israeli teen was detained Wednesday after he was caught urinating on a Holocaust memorial in Poland. The 19-year-old was spotted by museum guides urinating at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum. The site was a former concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland where overÃâà...
WNCT
March 23, 2018
Students took turns reading a memorial list of Jewish people killed in the concentration camps of the Germans during World War II. Later in the evening, ECU Dental School Assistant Dean Geralyn Crain told stories from her mother's book about life during the Holocaust. Both of Crain's parents survived theÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
March 23, 2018
The many South Florida Holocaust survivors who attended two events in Palm Beach and Broward Counties respectively were inspired by the high quality of the programs. Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County paired, as it has done in three previous years, teens and South Florida HolocaustÃâà...
Newsday
March 19, 2018
Organizers noted that 40 percent of Holocaust survivors live in poverty, calling them an underserved population. About 130 volunteers gathered at the Mid Island-Y JCC in Plainview to fill the baskets with kosher matzo, macaroons and more for the elderly survivors. “Many of them did not get to celebrate theÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 18, 2018
'We had to put it aside to survive', says Holocaust survivor speaking in Saskatoon ... people were killed in total. On Thursday, Waisman spoke to 2,000 students in Saskatoon, and on Sunday, he'll be speaking at the Holocaust Memorial Service at the Congregation Agudas Israel Jewish Community Centre.
Davis Enterprise
March 18, 2018
Irving Roth, a survivor of both the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, will be speaking on Sunday, March 25, at 3 pm in the Social Hall at Congregation Bet Haverim 1715 Anderson Rd, Davis in a program entitled “My Brother's Keeper.” A question-and-answer program will follow the talk;Ãâà...
The Florida Times-Union
March 18, 2018
As children, Holocaust survivors Semen Malamudand Claire Soria saw the worst of mankind. Malamud was 4 when Nazi Germany bombed his Ukrainian hometown in 1941 and gathered the Jews in a ghetto surrounded by barbed wire. At one point the Nazis killed 126 of them in front of their fellow Jews. “They did this as aÃâà...
Maine Public
March 18, 2018
"You shouldn't be surprised," says Liz Helitzer, Executive Director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine. "Anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia-those aren't new hatreds. But it feels like right now they are hatreds that are no longer being condemned unilaterally in a way that they had been.".
The Local Germany
March 18, 2018
Marko Feingold, 104, at the Israeli Cultural Centre in Salzburg, Austria on Thursday. Photo: JOE KLAMAR / AFP. AFP. news@thelocal.de Ãâ÷ @thelocalgermany. 17 March 2018. 13:50 CET+01:00. "Even before the Anschluss, Austrians had the Nazi symbol hidden under their lapels," says Marko Feingold, theÃâà...
Press Herald
March 17, 2018
It's a new play by first-time playwright Anne Drakopolous, who adapted it from personal accounts, poems, stories and memories of Holocaust survivors. Among the survivors portrayed in the play are Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt of Portland, who married in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1944,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 17, 2018
Anthony Acevedo, a 20-year-old Army medic, had been captured during the Battle of the Bulge when a Red Cross care package arrived in March 1945 at the Nazi slave labor camp where he was imprisoned. It contained a diary and a fountain pen. Between the diary's grayish-green covers, Mr. AcevedoÃâà...
TIME
March 16, 2018
Under the new Holocaust censorship law, discussion of complicity by Polish state or military organizations in the Holocaust is forbidden and subject to criminal penalty. Defenders will argue that the law covers only official acts by the Polish government-in-exile or its successor state. But no longer can PolishÃâà...
Camas Washougal Post Record
March 16, 2018
The Holocaust series will explore numerous topics and ideas, including the rise of Hitler, Nazi ideals, Jewish life before the Holocaust, ghettos of Western and Eastern ... Tweed said the Camas School District supported her in teaching the Holocaust through electives or post-AP testing for enrichment.
Centralia Chronicle
March 8, 2018
After an auditorium full of sophomores at Centralia High School watched the first half of “Schindler's List” Wednesday, the son of Holocaust survivor Felicia Lewkowicz took to the stage. He noted that his mother told him “Schindler's List” wasn't a realistic enough portrayal of the Nazi death camps. She wouldÃâà...
KARK
March 8, 2018
Today, Gorog works with the National Holocaust Memorial Museum. It's his mission to help ensure genocide like this, never happens again. "To bring to people's attention that what you and everybody can do, we have to do when we see discrimination against people based on their skin color or religion orÃâà...
New York Times
March 8, 2018
Over the next four years, he would survive seven Nazi concentration camps by swapping sketches of his captors and their families for scraps of food. And he lived to become a prominent American portraitist. He died at 93 on Feb. 24 in Santa Monica, Calif., the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust said.
Haaretz
March 8, 2018
WASHINGTON – The list of names, written in Arabic using a mixture of blood and rust, is unnerving but demands attention. The fact I'm looking at it in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum makes things all the stranger. The phrase “They can't be compared” is rendered redundant. If this exhibit isÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 8, 2018
Zaw Htay, Suu Kyi's spokesman, said in response to a request for comment: "Myanmar has always been supportive of the Holocaust Museum's principles and activities and the purposes of the museum. But now, now the latest situation in Rakhine state, we see that the Museum has no balance perceptionsÃâà...
New York Times
March 7, 2018
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has revoked a prestigious human rights award it had given to the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, now Myanmar's civilian leader, faulting her for failing to halt or even acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of her country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
Casper Star-Tribune Online
March 5, 2018
Lance Jones is the head of security at Casper College, a former longtime police officer and administrator, as well as a Holocaust scholar and instructor. We chatted with him about this week's three-day Holocaust seminar, hosted by the college with a grant from the Board of Cooperative Educational ServicesÃâà...
Boulder Jewish News
March 5, 2018
Based on a true story, authors Ann M. Leis and Gail Danziger Klein recount Gail's mother's experiences during a tragic time in history — the Holocaust. Inspired by a family photograph, Ann and Gail tell a story not only of hope but also of the strength and courage it took to overcome immense hardship.
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