• Holocaust Memorial Group organise special event

    A GROUP of young people have organized a special event to highlight the devastating impact of the Holocaust and the lessons which should be learnt from it. Since it was formed three years ago, the ‘Holocaust Memorial Group – Hartlepool’ – a group of 14 young people aged 13-19 – has been working to commemorate […]

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  • Holocaust survivor brings horrors of history to life for pupils

    Students learning about the atrocities of the Second World War were visited by a holocaust survivor. Uri Winterstein gave a talk to A-level history pupils at Whitburn Academy, in Shanks Road, yesterday. The 71-year-old grandfather was just a baby in the last two years of the war, but he survived the horrors along with his […]

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  • Dallas Holocaust Museum Presents “Anne Frank – A History for Today” International Exhibit

    Beginning on January 14, Yahad-In Unum’s exhibition on “The Holocaust by Bullets” will be on display at Centro Sefarad-Israel in Madrid, Spain. The exhibition’s objective is to pay homage to Holocaust victims and to educate visitors in the hopes of preventing genocide and mass violence in the future. This exhibition is free and open to […]

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  • Holocaust survivor pays emotional visit to Aberdeen school

    A holocaust survivor has made a poignant visit to a north-east school to honour the memory of those whose lives were lost and to teach the lessons of those who survived. Harry Bibring, 90, shared his heartbreaking story with students at Albyn School in Aberdeen yesterday thanks to a programme organised by The Holocaust Educational […]

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  • BBC to broadcast Holocaust Memorial Day

    BBC Two will broadcast the Holocaust Memorial Day UK ceremony in January. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust announced that the public broadcaster would be showing the 2016 ceremony, which is held on January 27 each year. Chief Executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust Olivia Marks-Woldman said: “On Holocaust Memorial Day hundreds of thousands of […]

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  • Architecture Tells its Own Story at the Illinois Holocaust MuseumArchitecture Tells its Own Story at the Illinois Holocaust Museum

    Detail of the museum’s “light” side (Chloe Riley) Like Star Wars, the space we’re currently standing in has physical “light” and “dark” sides, says my tour guide, a petite blonde who grew up in Chicago and “geeks out” over all things architecture. She’s referring to a critical component of the overarching design of the Illinois […]

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  • Yad Vashem Shares Holocaust Photos from Month of January

    Yad Vashem is starting the New Year with an act of remembrance to those lost in the Holocaust. The Shoah memorial and trust, which is located in Jerusalem, shared images from its archives of events that occurred in the Holocaust during the month of January. The events include the liberation of Auschwitz, which happened in January […]

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  • New Holocaust Center exhibit honors French Jewish children

    The Holocaust Memorial Center will host an opening program for its newest exhibit, “A la Mémoire des Enfants Déportés,” at 7 p.m. on January 27. The exhibition, which includes calligraphic artwork honoring the 11,400 French Jewish children deported and, for many, murdered from 1942 to 1944, will remain on display through May 15. Approximately 300 of the plaques […]

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  • Hitler Sought to Annihilate Jews to Prevent Ecological Disaster, Book Contends

    Timothy Snyder describes Hitler as a leader who wanted to foment an ecological revolution in a global landscape with no place in it for the Jews. “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning,” by Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, 462 pages, $30 Upon the release of “Black Earth” this past September, historian Timothy Snyder […]

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  • Copyright row over Anne Frank diary to heat up ‘unauthorized’ publication

    The Foundation says that Otto Frank, who founded the Anne Frank Foundation, is one of the creators of the diary, a claim that if true would allow for a copyright extension of 35 years. The battle over just who owns the right to publish The Diary of Anne Frank, the wartime memoir of a Jewish […]

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