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

Marching toward a world without genocide

“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness,” Elie Wiesel often said. Those words are the driving force behind the March of the Living, an event that brings thousands of young people from around the world to Poland every spring. There they visit the places where crimes against

Project to Build Visual Memory of Places & People Before, During the Holocaust

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project convened 30 historians and researchers at Yad Vashem to provide tools to improve access to Holocaust documentation. Films from the Holocaust period are filled with haunting images, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to piece together the stories of lives cut brutally short. In

A room in the ECB’s basement held thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

FRANKFURT – The European Central Bank’s new headquarters towers over the Main River in Frankfurt, a gleaming symbol of modern Europe. At its base stands a searing reminder of the continent’s dark history. Below the newly built skyscraper, a concrete ramp stretches down into a dark basement. Ten-thousand Jews awaited

IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living

  IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living This week W5’s Sandie Rinaldo joins a new generation confronting the horrors of the past. IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living, as teens travel to the death camps in Poland and hear first-hand from the dwindling numbers

‘Second Generation’ leader tells of need to keep Shoah memory

One of the most prominent leaders of the children of Holocaust survivors has attacked people who attempt to “pervert the memory of the Holocaust”. Menachem Rosensaft described as “obscene” those who “wish to twist and distort” the Shoah for political purposes. Mr Rosensaft, a lawyer, who was the guest of

The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman

Otto Skorzeny, one of the Mossad’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler’s favorites. On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The