Yad Vashem Locks Horns With Israeli Lawmakers Over Jewish Holocaust Heroes

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

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

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

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

Raoul Wallenberg Officially Declared Dead by Sweden, 71 Years After Disappearance

Swedish authorities have formally pronounced World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg dead, 71 years after he disappeared in Hungary. The Swedish diplomat, credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust, is believed to have died in Soviet captivity, though the time and circumstances of his death remain

A March of the Living Leader’s visit to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

It was a Friday morning in early May – I had taken the express train from Krakow to Warsaw to get to my March of the Living Canada group’s hotel early for check-in. My co-staff stayed in Krakow with the group and she was responsible for taking them through Plaszow;

VIDEO: Canadian teens take emotional pilgrimage to Nazi death camps

W5’s Sandie Rinaldo joins a group of Canadian high school students, chaperones, and Holocaust survivors on a journey from Toronto to Poland as they embark on an annual pilgrimage known as the March of the Living, an emotionally grueling tour of Nazi concentration camps.

This Day in Jewish History // 1946: Nazi Doctors Are Indicted

Human experimentation by Nazi Germany would embarrass the global medical community and ultimately change the history of ethics and medical research. On October 25, 1946, twenty German physicians and three administrators were charged by the U.S. military occupation authorities in Nuremberg with war crimes and crimes against humanity, for their

‘Buried Prayers’ to be shown at Kristallnacht Film Forum

Commemorating the 78th anniversary of the event considered the start of the Holocaust, the 15th annual Kristallnacht Film Forum will once again showcase a compelling Holocaust-related feature film. Presented by the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and the March of the Living’s Southern Region, “Buried Prayers” will be shown

Facebook exec, Rwanda survivor among 5 tapped for Holocaust memorial council

(JTA) — A Facebook vice president and a human rights advocate who survived the Rwandan genocide are among five people appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Elliot Schrage, the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, and Clemantine Wamariya, also a student career consultant, will be returning to the