New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers

(JTA) — In 1940, as he was being transported to safety in the lower deck of a ship, the Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger asked Waitstill Sharp why the American Unitarian minister had bothered to rescue him from the Nazis. Sharp and his wife, Martha, had spent much of the previous two

Shimon Peres 1923-2016 ז״ל

The International March of the Living Board of Directors, Staff, Global Leadership and Alumni around the world deeply mourn the passing of our friend and fellow Marcher Shimon Peres ז״ל. May his memory be a blessing. “Nobody could have broken us. They hate us, they persecute us, they killed many of us, but

Video & Transcript: President Shimon Peres Message – 2016 March of the Living Latrun on Yom Ha’atsmaut

You already made the March of the Living. From the abyss of Jewish History, the Shoah, the lowest, most tragic point in our life, to the summit of Jewish achievements, the State of Israel. The lowest and highest. I know people say that Israel is a miracle. Israel is not

March of the Living on The Shtick with Renny Rychter

Renny Richter, Co-President of March of the Living, tells us about the amazing experience of traveling to Poland and Israel in a group, dedicated to the Memory of the Holocaust, commemorating Yom Hashoah in Poland, then Yom Hazikaron and celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut in Israel.

The True Tale of the Woman Who Took Down the Holocaust Denier

Denial’ is a new film based on the real-life legal battle between Deborah Lipstadt and the man who claimed the Holocaust never happened. In the fall of 1994, Deborah Lipstadt walked into an auditorium at DeKalb Community College in Atlanta, prepared to give a lecture on Holocaust denial. Little did

Hungarian Neo-Nazis Vandalize Holocaust Protest ‘Living Memorial’

The Living Memorial, a monument in Budapest’s Liberty Square, was vandalized over the weekend, after a call by the neo-Nazi website Kuruc.info to destroy it, the website Hungarian Free Press reported Sunday. The Living Memorial was erected back in 2014 in protest against the monument to the German occupation erected

Rivlin Meets Daughter of Greek Mayor Who Saved Jews in Holocaust

  YERUSHALAYIM – President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday met in his office with Lana Karrer, daughter of Loukas Karrer who served as Mayor of the Greek island of Zakynthos during the Nazi occupation of the island. Mayor Karrer, together with the local bishop, was responsible for saving the nearly 300

Keeping the Legacy of the Holocaust Alive

“How does one take on the memories of another person, let alone the collective memories of millions?” That was a question posed by Andrea Bolender at a tribute dinner last night to benefit the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. The question is a conundrum, but one that

German court jails 87-year-old Holocaust denier

An 87-year old German woman dubbed the ‘Nazi granny” by German media has been convicted of Holocaust denial and sentenced to eight months in prison for incitement to hatred. Ursula Haverbeck wrote a letter in February to the mayor of Detmold, the city where former Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning was going on trial, in which

U.S. Holocaust museum urges world leaders to press Iran on Holocaust denial

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum urged world leaders to press Iran’s leadership on its Holocaust denial during the U.N. General Assembly. “We want to make sure that the upcoming discussion at the United Nations is informed by facts about official Iranian efforts to promote racism and extremism