U.S. Holocaust Museum gets a treasured Auschwitz manuscript by Primo Levi

Manuela Paul had the precious documents in a plastic folder, inside an artist’s satchel, inside a Whole Foods shopping bag, which she kept at her side the entire bus ride from New York to Washington. The package in her custody was a rare 1946 draft of one of the most

A new song created by March of the Living Hungary, featuring Moran Magal and Tsahi Halevi.

A new song created by March of the Living Hungary, featuring Moran Magal and Tsahi Halevi. Music written by Ferenc Fegya Jávori. Verse by Péter Sziámi Müller [HEBREW VERSION] [ENGLISH VERSION]

After almost half a century, thousands of personal items of the victims of Auschwitz, are returning to the Memorial

More than 16 thousand personal items belonging to the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, originating from archaeological works carried out in the area of gas chamber and crematorium III in 1967, returned to the Memorial after many months of searching. The objects found during the

This Day In Jewish History 1940: Auschwitz Gets Its First Big Shipment of Prisoners

On June 14, 1940, the Auschwitz concentration camp received its first large shipment of prisoners – 728 political detainees transferred from both Dachau, in Germany, and a Nazi prison in Tarnow, in occupied Poland. Twenty of them are believed to have been Jews, with the majority Roman Catholics, resistance members

US House passes measure calling on Germany to increase Holocaust

The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously passed a resolution calling on Germany to increase restitution support for Holocaust survivors. The resolution, sponsored by U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), will “fulfill its moral responsibility to Holocaust survivors and urgently provide the financial resources necessary to ensure that

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