• 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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  • Israel Decries Facebook, YouTube Policy Allowing Anti-Jewish Incitement, Holocaust Denial on Pages

    An official in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs slammed Facebook and YouTube for rejecting repeated requests to automatically intercept content that could lead to assaults against Jews, the Hebrew news site nrgreported on Monday. Akiva Tor, head of the Foreign Ministry’s World Jewish Affairs and World Religions Bureau, expressed his dismay during a speech before a gathering of […]

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  • Israel illiteracy rampant among young Jews, US Jewish leader warns

    Forty-five years ago in New York, a 20-something Malcolm Hoenlein had a remarkable meeting with Israeli deputy prime minister Yigal Alon, who chose Hoenlein, already a proven leader, to deliver a message to American Jewry. Back then, Alon’s message was clear: “Tell American Jews, keep your money here [in the US], if you’ll invest it […]

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  • Poland to punish those who use the phrase “Polish death camp”

    Poland is drawing up new regulations to punish use of the phrase “Polish death camps” when referring to wartime Nazi concentration camps on Polish soil, Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said on Saturday. Poland has long sought to eliminate the misleading phrase from historical and newspaper accounts since it suggests the country, which was occupied by […]

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  • Serbia lawmakers pass Holocaust restitution law

    [JURIST] Serbian lawmakers on Friday approved a bill that will allow restitution of heirless and unclaimed Jewish property taken during the Holocaust. The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) [advocacy website], which aggressively campaigned for the bill to be passed,said [AP report] that Serbia is leading the way as one of the first countries in Europe […]

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