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

    Posted by MOTLorg on May 3, 2016

    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

    Posted by MOTLorg on May 2, 2016

    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

    Posted by MOTLorg on May 1, 2016

    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

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 30, 2016

    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?

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 29, 2016

    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

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 28, 2016

    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

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 28, 2016

    “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

  • 2016 March of the Living Hungary

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 27, 2016

  • Award Winning Film “Never Forget: A March of the Living Story” to be Released on Yom Hashoah

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 27, 2016

    Award winning Producer, Anthony Salamon and Award winning Director, Adam Dostalek will bring their socially significant short film, Never Forget: A March of the Living Story to the public this Yom Hashoah. With Yom Hashoah (Holocaust remembrance day) 2016 fast approaching, and world events bringing issues of tolerance and community

  • As Holocaust Becomes More Distant, Survivors’ Needs Intensify

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 26, 2016

    The German government is negotiating with Jewish representatives to ensure that the thousands of poorest and weakest Holocaust survivors worldwide receive the intensive care they need to live out their final years at home. The German Finance Ministry and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany continue to hold