• France Returns Nazi-looted Art to Holocaust Survivor’s Grandson

    Posted by MOTLorg on December 5, 2016

    France has returned a 16th century work of Nazi-looted art to heirs of the Jewish family that was forced to sell it in Paris during Nazi occupation in World War II. French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay handed the painting attributed to Flemish artists Joos van Cleve or his son back

  • Posthumous honor for US officer who saved 200 Jewish GIs from the Nazis — and never told a soul

    Posted by MOTLorg on December 1, 2016

    NEW YORK — In a singular act of humanity and defiance, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds stood up to a German commandant and saved 200 American Jewish GIs from transportation to a slave labor camp. It was 1945 and Edmonds had been a prisoner of war in Stalag IX-A, a German

  • Lost Anne Frank Poem to Be Auctioned

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 22, 2016

    A poem written by Anne Frank shortly before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis will be going on auction in Holland shortly, according to the Mail Online. Frank wrote the poem at the age of 12 in the album of the older sister of her closest

  • Schindler’s Factory Will Be Restored Into a Holocaust Museum

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 22, 2016

    A Czech foundation plans to restore the disused factorywhere German industrialist Oskar Schindler saved more than a thousand Jews, giving it new life as a Holocaust Museum. “Our aim is to restore the building to its original condition, including the watchtower,” said Jaroslav Novak, head of the Shoah and Oskar

  • Organizers Of Holocaust March In Germany Ban Israeli Flag

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 18, 2016

    Organizers of a Holocaust remembrance ceremony in Germany reportedly attempted to “remove with physical violence” a Jewish man for marching with the Israeli flag while allowing anti-Israel activists and those sporting the Palestinian scarf, or keffiyeh, to participate. Rolf Woltersdorf joined Thursday’s “Walk In Remembrance” in the northern German city

  • Historian May Face Charges in Poland for Writing That Poles Killed Jews in World War II

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 17, 2016

    The prominent Polish-born American historian Jan Tomasz Gross, who revealed the crimes committed by Poles against the Jews during the Holocaust, is gearing up for a legal battle over the “historical truth” against Polish authorities who, it now turns out, are still considering putting him on trial for harming Poland’s

  • Yad Vashem Locks Horns With Israeli Lawmakers Over Jewish Holocaust Heroes

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 14, 2016

    The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will consider a bill Sunday that is the focus of a dispute between Yad Vashem and a group of Knesset members. The MKs want the Holocaust museum and memorial to give the same recognition to Jews who saved other Jews during the Holocaust as it

  • Alumni Reflection: No Limit to What We Can Do by Rachel Rothstein, 2016

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 13, 2016

    I am a very emotional person. Maybe it’s part of my personality or maybe it’s because I fall under the category of moody 17-year-old girl. I’m emotional when I get a bad mark. I’m emotional when I get in a fight with my friends. I’m emotional when I hear about

  • The photo that alerted the world

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 7, 2016

    Dr Michael Siegel, an eminent 50-year-old German Jewish lawyer, is shown in the photo, bruised, barefoot, trousers ripped, being marched by Nazi ‘brown-shirt’ auxiliary police. The sign hanging from his neck was scrawled with the message, ‘Ich bin Jude, aber ich werde mich nie mehr bei der Polizei beschweren’ –

  • MOTL Australia: Feeling the Jewish Journey

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 3, 2016

    This is your / our time to shine and show how much this program means to us, our kids and our community! Just get on board and make a contribution. Every dollar counts. Let’s hit that $120,000 that will help fund future participants. Go to www.charidy.com/march