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

Renny Rychter and John Glass discussed March of the Living

Renny Rychter and John Glass discussed March of the Living.

Holocaust Survivors’ Needs Grow, and Aid Is Slow to Catch Up

BUDAPEST — Agnes Galgoczi, 84, can no longer make it to the toilet on her own. It sits in the kitchen of her apartment in Budapest, just three feet from the bed, where she sings to herself to fight loneliness. Several blocks away, Vera Varga, 78, slides decades-old movies into

U.S. begins paying out reparations from France to Holocaust survivors and their heirs

The State Department has paid or approved 90 claims for a total $11 million in reparations from France to former World War II prisoners who were carried to Nazi death camps in French trains — the first French reparations paid to Holocaust survivors living in the United States, officials said Thursday.

Seeking Holocaust reconciliation in Lithuania, from Los Angeles

The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, occupies a stately stone building on a large, forested park in the city’s center. It is notably not a Holocaust museum. To find the Holocaust Exposition, look for a small, clapboard wooden building on a narrow side street. Instead,