Farber & Rudner: The coward of Auschwitz

In July 2015, the Regional Court of Luneburg, Germany rendered a significant verdict, finding Oskar Groening, the so-called “Accountant of Auschwitz” guilty of aiding and abetting the murder of 300,000 Jews in that Nazi concentration camp. Groening, 91, was sentenced to four years in prison. The finding and sentence were in

Remembrance, Commemoration, Education, and Celebrating Life

Eli Rubenstein, the director of the Canadian segment of the March of the Living (MoL) for over two decades, is an educator, and an extraordinary human being. He knows and cherishes the history of his own people, the vitality of their lives as well as the tragedies, including the greatest

FOR HISTORIANS, THE HOLOCAUST PRESENTS A CONUNDRUM

In an excerpt from his new book, Lessons of the Holocaust, Michael Marrus argues that the Holocaust may not direct us how to solve the problems of our time Just over half a century ago, in family libraries throughout the English-speaking world, one could probably find, alongside the Bible, a dictionary, and a

Israel, Don’t Exclude Poland From the Holocaust Reconciliation Process

A young Israeli I once met at a bar in Berlin told me that she lived in Germany thanks to her Polish passport and enjoyed life thanks to a German scholarship. When I asked if she had considered doing the same thing in Warsaw, she made a face and said

Century-old Torah to be taken from West Boca to Poland for final restoration

A century-old Torah that has made a journey around the world will be taken to Poland in May to complete its restoration, with South Florida Holocaust survivors writing in the final letters of the Old Testament scroll. The Torah, rescued by Boca Raton resident Sibyl Silver, is one of 118

N.J. Holocaust survivor pens ‘Chocolate’ memoir

The memoir of Holocaust survivor Maud Dahme, a resident of Flemington, was recently published with support from Stockton University’s Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center. Chocolate, The Taste of Freedom, tells Dahme’s story of being hidden by Christian families as a child in The Netherlands during World War II.

Do we need to rethink how we teach the Holocaust?

While the focus has been on teaching the dangers of racism, many students are left in the dark about the history and motivations for this troubling period Many people argue that it is crucially important for young people to learn about the Holocaust to prevent racism and prejudice in the

New search engine to target anti-Semitism

Meet the Sniper, an app that will scan the net using a new algorithm, looking for anti-Jewish content. Individuals will be able to check the content and take action as needed. The World Zionist Organization (WZO) is expected to launch its Sniper app, which it says is a search engine

Ten thousand expected at March of the Living

Some 10,000 young Jews from over 40 countries are to take part in the March of the Living at the former German Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland on 5 May.   According to organizers, they will be joined by a group of Poles along a 3km-long route. In

VIDEO: ‘It’s not clear if the Holocaust is a reality or not,’ Iran’s supreme leader says

Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday once again repeated provocative assertions about the Holocaust, defying the world on a day that it paused to remember the victims of the Nazi genocide in Europe. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a video in which he said America “assists the fake Zionist regime” and that