Alumni Reflection: Jeremy Benhamou, Leo Martin, 2016

In May of 2016 I was extremely fortunate to participate in the Leo Martin March of the Living. This two-week long trip to Poland and Israel not only inspired this essay, it also altered the way I think about everything! This incredible program, which began on May 2nd and ended

The bones of the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ have become a teaching tool in Brazil

For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985,

Exclusive: Facebook post helps posthumously honor Dutch couple for Holocaust heroism

Nadine Wojak tells the incredible story of finding the relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII – Holocaust Nadine Wojakovski tells the incredible story of tracing relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII In 2015 I published a memoir, based on the true story of my

Steven Sotloff, Beheaded Journalist, Grandson of Holocaust Survivors

60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl interviews the parents of Steven Sotloff, the American-Israeli journalist who was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria in August 2013. Sotloff, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, was held captive by members of ISIS/ISIL including Mohammed Emwazi (aka Jihadi John), who demanded a $100 million ransom from the

Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lights up in solidarity with Israeli terror victims

Israeli ambassador welcomes gesture, says Israel and Germany will face evil together Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag on Monday, in a show of solidarity with the victims of Sunday’s Jerusalem truck-ramming attack. Four Israeli soldiers aged 20 to 22 were killed in the

Tackling the Holocaust in 140 Characters: The Man Behind Auschwitz Museum’s Twitter Account

Long before he moved to Oswiecim to become the spokesman for the Auschwitz museum and lead its social media effort, Pawel Sawicki’s life was intricately connected to this sleepy Polish town near Krakow. A Warsaw-area journalist for Polish Radio 2, Sawicki used to visit Oswiecim as a boy on holidays

Non-Jewish Poles don yarmulkes to protest anti-Semitism

On a quiet Thursday evening, Café Foksal in central Warsaw suddenly filled up with about 50 people wearing kippahs. The event was unusual for a city with very few observant Jews and an insignificant number of Israeli tourists. What made it exceptional is that almost none of the yarmulke wearers

YAFFE ELIACH, HOLOCAUST SCHOLAR, REMEMBERED

We sat together, both students of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in the early 1970s. Even then, Yaffe Eliach, distinguished scholar in Holocaust studies and creator of the Tower of Faces, an exhibit of photographs on permanent display at the United States

This Day in Jewish History 1945: The Nazis Murder a Former Mayor of Berlin

Jewish only in origin, Fritz Elsas had been a good German, but was arrested after the attempt to kill Hitler and died in a concentration camp. On January 4, 1945, Fritz Elsas, a former mayor of Berlin and part of a resistance group planning for a post-Nazi Germany, was executed

Neo-Nazi Calls for Armed White Supremacists to March Against Montana Jews

The man who runs the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has announced an armed march by white supremacists in an effort to harass a Montana Jewish community. The graphic announcing the march in Whitefish, Montana, that went online Thursday was published over a photograph of the entrance to Auschwitz and