Film Alone in Berlin: How Ordinary Germans Defied Hitler

It’s very strange to be at the Berlin Film Festival, watching a film that is set in Berlin, which has Berlin in its title… and to hear all of the actors speaking in English. What makes it even stranger is that Alone in Berlin is all about someone writing postcards,

Oberlin Professor’s anti-Semitic Posts Are ‘Personal Views,’ Says College

In response to an article revealing that an Oberlin College professor made numerous postings about Jews and Israel to Facebook, the liberal arts college’s president said the college “respects the right of its faculty, students, staff and alumni to express their personal views.” Marvin Krislov’s statement came after The Tower

Students at Canada’s McGill University Reject BDS Motion

Students at Montreal’s McGill University failed to ratify a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions motion against Israel. In online voting last week by undergraduates, the motion was rejected 2,819-2,119 (57 percent to 43 percent), with 440 abstentions. It had passed in the university’s student society on February 22 by a vote

Sacred scrolls that survived Holocaust reunited after more than 50 years

The last time they were all together was more than five decades ago, shortly after they were rescued from a damp, dark warehouse in Prague. The group ended up at Westminster Synagogue in London, where they were given a new lease on life. After a short stay, most of them

Jesse Owens, a Film Hero Once Again

More than any other athlete of his era, Jesse Owens’s image on film has determined his fate. It all began with those few seconds of the 100-meter dash that Leni Riefenstahl enshrined in her film “Olympia, Part 1”: the close-up on Owens’s face, the white flare of the starting gun,

Holocuast Survivors Build Life On Love In Montreal

After rebuilding their lives in Canada following the Holocaust, Ernest and Ella Ehrman travel into the dark past – to help light the way for generations to come. On a snowy day in Montreal, Ella and Ernest Ehrman sit side by side at the long dining table in their living

Nazi commandant’s granddaughter to speak on uncovering her family’s history at Atlanta synagogue

During a seemingly ordinary trip to the library a Nigerian-German woman stumbled upon a piece of her familial history that would connect her to the Holocaust. As a child Jennifer Teege watched Steven Spielberg’sfilm “Schindler’s List.” She remembered the scene in which commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp Amon Goeth

Rap star B.o.B.’s latest track promotes Holocaust denier

(JTA) — The Grammy-nominated rap star B.o.B. in his new song offers support for Holocaust denier David Irving, along with reiterating a claim made on Twitter that the earth is flat. The track, released Monday two days ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day in response to a Twitter argument with astrophysicist

Auschwitz trial: three survivors describe horrors of Holocaust

Youngest witness, now 90, recalls terror of selection days, when SS men decided who was still fit to work and who should be killed Reinhold Hanning in court in Detmold, Germany. Photograph: Reuters Associated Press in Detmold Friday 12 February 201610.16 ESTLast modified on Friday 12 February 201620.00 EST Three Holocaust survivors

Merkel to open Shoah exhibit with warning on migrant anti-Semitism

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel will open Monday the exhibition “The Art of the Holocaust,” featuring works created by concentration camp prisoners, as the German leader pledged to combat the threat of rising anti-Semitism. The show brings together 100 works on loan from Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial by 50