48 years since expulsion of Poland’s Jews

By Daniel Schatz This month marks the 48th anniversary of the state-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign of March 1968 in communist Poland. The last remaining survivors of the Holocaust – in a country that, prior to the war, had more than three million Jewish citizens – were declared to be “foreigners,” “Zionists,”

Bulgaria Marks Anniversary of Prevention of Deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Holocaust Death Camps

Senior politicians, members of the Bulgarian Jewish community and diplomats took part in ceremonies on March 10 2016 commemorating the country’s 1943 prevention of the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi death camps and honouring the memory of the more than six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. At ceremonies

Filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s Remember Captures Rage of Holocaust Victims

The Holocaust film Remember is set in the present. The thriller contains no flashbacks. It takes place entirely in North America. And yet Remember is also one of the most powerful and unique Nazi revenge films to come around in a long time. At the movie’s center are two Holocaust survivors

Henry Winkler’s Symbol Of Holocaust Survival Lives On In Hollywood

Henry Winkler, the Jewish actor best known as tough-talking Arthur Fonzarelli — aka, “The Fonz” — on the 1970s-80s TV show “Happy Days,” is earning a new reputation. As a protector of a unique Holocaust legacy. Now 70 and a graying grandfather, the son of refugees from Nazi Germany, he

Israeli Cycle Team to Honor Italian Tour De France Champ Turned Holocaust Hero

Israel’s only professional cycling team will pay homage to two-time Tour de France champion Gino Bartali, riding the route that he secretly traveled to help Jews escape Nazi rule in Italy. Bartali, who passed away in 2000, rode as a courier to help the Jewish resistance against the Nazis. He

Nassau Holocaust Center Gives Voice To Genocidal Rape Survivors

Consolee Nishimwe knows how important it is to speak out. Nishimwe was only 14 years old when on April 6, 1994 Rwanda exploded into a state of chaos. That day also marked the beginning of the 100-day Rwandan genocide, which claimed upwards of 800,000 lives. Her family did what most

Teacher Uses Skype To Teach Students about the Holocaust

With the help of Skype, a Virginia history teacher is passing on the story of his family’s escape from the Holocaust during World War II. For 33 years, George Cassutto, a teacher at Harmony Middle School near Hamilton, VA, has been telling the personal story of how his parents, Ernest

Meir Dagan: From the shadow of the Holocaust to the top of the Mossad

When news of Meir Dagan’s death broke, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen expressed on behalf of the organization’s employees and its past chiefs deep sorrow at the news of his death and sent condolences to the Dagan family. Dagan, the tenth Mossad chief, was appointed by his close friend Ariel Sharon

New museum honors Poles killed for helping Jews in Holocaust

Jews and Catholics offered prayers Thursday at the graves of Jews hunted by the Nazis and a Polish family killed for trying to save them, a solemn prelude to the opening of a museum honoring Poles who died for offering refuge. Polish President Andrzej Duda was to lead the formal

The Holocaust and Jewish identity

Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for the presidency ever. It’s a rare sign of the health of our republic that no one seems to much care or even notice. Least of all, Sanders himself. Which prompted Anderson Cooper in a recent Democratic debate to ask Sanders whether