• The virtual Holocaust survivor: how history gained new dimensions

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 27, 2016

    Pinchas Gutter goes out of his way to find me biscuits. In a sun-baked living room in his north London home, he opens a packet of Rich Tea, sits down and tells me about the Holocaust. Gutter was seven years old when the second world war broke out. He lived

  • Holocaust survivors can genetically pass trauma down to their children

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 24, 2016

    Holocaust survivors can genetically pass trauma down to their children A few weeks ago I was sitting in my therapist’s office and talking about struggles I have with my father and some of his behavior. I told her that both of my dad’s parents were holocaust survivors. He grew up

  • Alumni reflection: Liz Pearl, Canada, 2014

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 24, 2016

    Nothing Makes Sense ‒‛Never Again’ Excerpts from My Journal from MOL 2014 Liz Pearl   Water: Rain and Tears The day after we arrive in Poland is Shabbat and we take a guided walking tour through the streets of Warsaw in the rain. At some point the rain changes from

  • Alumni Reflection: Anita Bloom, 2016

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 23, 2016

    One of the most memorable instances that will be seared into my memory was a time when there were no speeches, no songs, just silence. It was the day we walked through a beautiful forest, tall trees with glowing sunshine. The day was warm and nature was at its best.

  • Alumni Reflection: Felicia Schneberg, 2016

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 22, 2016

    The holocaust, with all it’s death and destruction, has been a part of my life since my dad, a survivor, told me stories of his experiences when I was growing up. Then in 1986, when he was dying of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and I was pregnant with his first grandchild, he

  • Lohmann: His mother’s sweater was ‘our lifeline’ during WWII

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 21, 2016

    Holocaust survivor Jay Ipson celebrated his 81st birthday by showing off a gift he’s wanted for a long time: his mother’s sweater. Or, in actuality, a very close reproduction. “It was our lifeline,” Ipson said of the sweater. And he wants others to see the sweater and know the story.

  • San Diego H.S. seniors share reactions to March of Living

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 21, 2016

    SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego teens who participated in the March of the Living earlier this year–in which a visit to the German Nazi concentration camps in Poland is followed by a trip to Israel — reflected on the first of these experiences in these articles below. Questions about

  • Auschwitz guard jailed for five years in Holocaust murder trial

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 20, 2016

    A 94-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people at the end of a four-month trial – which is likely to be the last of its kind. Reinhold Hanning was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for

  • Michigan requires public schools to teach about Holocaust

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 19, 2016

    The Holocaust during World War II and the 1915 to 1920 massacre of Armenians must be taught in Michigan public schools under a law signed by Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday. The new law recommends a combined six hours of genocide lessons be taught at some point between grades 8-12,

  • Comparing Israel to Nazis Is anti-Semitic, Says International Body

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 17, 2016

    An intergovernmental body devoted to commemorating the Holocaust adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that includes some hate speech against Israel. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, adopted the definition on May 26, according to a statement posted earlier this week on its website. The organization was launched in 1998 and has 31member