2016 NUREMBERG SYMPOSIUM LIVE STREAM

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Teaching the Holocaust can change students’ views, speaker at UND says

At some point in nearly everyone’s lives, there’s a “black swan” that comes along and shatters their worldview, just as it did when Europeans at one point assumed all swans were white. For Doyle Stevick, that “black swan” was a student of his who seemed lost. The student recently had

Maccabi GB does March of the Living 2016: A participant’s Blog

As the second day of the trip comes to an end [we landed in Poland on Sunday 1st May] we have been up since 6am and are only now going to bed (it’s currently 23:20). It’s been a long, emotional day. We visited a small town which, before the war,

Romania to Speed Up Property Restitution Claims of Holocaust Survivors

REUTERS – Romania is to fast-track property restitution claims from Holocaust survivors under an amended law that is expected to be passed by parliament next week, legislators said on Tuesday. Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany during World War Two until it changed sides in August 1944, and much

U.S. Congress Calls on Germany to Increase Support for Holocaust Survivors

A bipartisan group of Congress members introduced a resolution calling on the German government to provide additional financial aid to Holocaust survivors in their waning years. The resolution, which was introduced in the House and the Senate on Friday, aims to ensure “that all Holocaust victims live with dignity, comfort, and

Taking a Long-Term Perspective

Shmuel Rosenman takes a long-term perspective on the place of the Holocaust in Jewish identity. Notwithstanding the fact that the generation of survivors is aging, and soon no one will be left alive to bear witness to the unspeakable tragedy of 1939 to 1945, Rosenman, who in 1988 was one

How Much Did Small-town America Know About the Holocaust?

The same week the Dachau concentration camp opened, Maine’s Bangor Daily News also had some good tidings for its readers. “Mistreatment of Jewish Race in Germany Ends” was the headline of a story that ran on its front page in March 1933. Not all coverage of events leading up to

Interfaith march to remember Holocaust

According to Jill Rose — co-chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County — the March of Remembrance is a unique opportunity for the entire community — Jewish and non-Jewish — to come together to remember the atrocities of the Holocaust. Rose

Keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive

“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness … please heal the world.” The eloquent plea of Holocaust survivor Judy Weissenberg Cohen perhaps best underpins and represents a new work, Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations. This book contains striking images and reflections from