Survivor joins youth on ‘March’ to Shoa sites

Until this May, Holocaust survivor Michael Zeiger of Randolph had never visited a concentration camp. After some prodding, he agreed to accompany 40 high school students from the New Jersey/New York area on the 2016March of the Living. From May 2 to 14, starting in Poland, they (and 12,000 other

Martin L. Mattei seventh grade students present projects on the Holocaust in reading classes

      Editor’s note: This story has been updated with clarifications. HUGHESTOWN — For 12-year-old Justin Bryk, his latest school project seemed like a typical assignment until his research hit close to home. While learning about Anne Frank and the Holocaust in hisreading class, Bryk presented a series of

The Stolpersteine: Memory of Holocaust victims marks path along European streets

The Stolpersteine, or “Stumbling Stone” memorials – handmade plaques that memorialize the Jews who once lived in Juri’s neighborhood – are found in front of every other house on the tree-lined Guntzelstrasse, a main street in what was a heavily Jewish area of Berlin before World War II. Many Jewish

Record attendance overwhelms organizers of Auschwitz bike ride

A record 150 cyclists or more are scheduled to participate in the third Holocaust commemorative Ride for the Living in Poland. Participants aged 16-81 from eight countries are scheduled to join the 55-mile trek from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in southern Poland to the Jewish community center in Krakow that

10,000 clips recall Holocaust’s children

With yardsticks and tape, Tatyanna Russell and her friends spent two months building a star and hanging 10,000 paper clips on it. It would be another kids craft project if not for the meaning behind it: the star represents the Jewish Star of David, and each paper clip stands for

UK rabbi meets family murdered in the Holocaust through cache of WWII letters

Inside a particularly large trunk left on the Jerusalem balcony of Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg’s deceased aunt’s apartment was another smaller case containing an off-white linen bag. In it lay a bundle of papers. The dates on the delicate pages jumped out at Wittenberg — 1937, 1938, 1947 — and their

Amsterdam to Give Back $11m in Taxes Paid by Holocaust Survivors Upon Return

The Amsterdam municipality will donate 10 million euros ($11.3 million) to the city’s Jewish community to compensate for back taxes that Amsterdam’s Jews who survived the Holocaust were forced to pay on their return to the city. As reported by the DutchNews.nl website, the announcement of the donation, which is

Vandals deface Holocaust monuments in Poland and Italy

Newly-erected Holocaust monuments in Poland and Italy were vandalized by individuals who wrote on them far-right and far-left slogans, respectively. The Polish monument, which was unveiled in 2014 in the country’s northeast, was hit for the second time in a little over a year by unidentified culprits who broke off

Green Journey – Cycling on the Trails of the Living

Teens on the March of the Living participated in Masa Yarok (Green Journey), an initiative of the KKL-JNF Education Division that had 800 teens cycling around Israel Green Journey (Masa Yarok) 2016, a project initiated and led by the International Department of the KKL-JNF Education and Youth Division, concluded on

Japanese Diplomat’s Act of Mercy Is Enduring Legacy for Holocaust Descendants

Amid preparations for the end of a semester at Northwestern University – where Arielle Salomon is pursuing a master’s degree in business administration – the 28-year-old is taking time out of her busy schedule to pause and appreciate what she says has been her fortunate life. “Everyone has their story