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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 of 512-357, and was seen […]
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But You Did Not Come Back review – a Holocaust survivor’s love letter to her father
Marceline Loridan-Ivens was 15 when, in April 1944, she was arrested along with her father by the Nazis and sent from occupied France to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Marceline would make it home. Her father would not. But You Did Not Come Back is Loridan-Ivens’s extraordinary, unflinching and deeply moving memoir of the year she spent in Birkenau, […]
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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 ended up somewhere else — […]
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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, Owens’s lurch, and then his […]
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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 room, pouring over their wedding […]
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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 (played by Ralph Fiennes) stood […]
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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 Neil deGrasse Tyson about the […]
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A child Holocaust survivA child Holocaust survivor speaksor speaks
Despite spending a significant part of his childhood in a Nazi concentration camp, Robert Narev holds no animosity towards the German people of today. Narev spoke at Expressions this week, at The Shadows of Shoah exhibition. The exhibition is photographer Perry Trotter’s attempt to reflect the humanity behind the Holocaust’s grim statistics. Narev reluctantly returned […]
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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 have testified about the horrors […]
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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 artists created in secret between […]
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