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Wiesenthal Center reports worst global anti-Semitism incidents from past year
Anti-Semitism sadly reared its ugly head numerous times throughout the world in 2015. “2015 was a disastrous year for anti-Semitism, across Europe, on our nation’s campuses, online and beyond,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights organization. Cooper and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the organization, […]
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Pardon Plea by Adolf Eichmann, Nazi War Criminal, Is Made Public
JERUSALEM — After he was convicted and sentenced to death in Israel for his role in the annihilation of millions of Jews by Nazi Germany, Adolf Eichmann pleaded for his own life. “There is a need to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like me forced to serve as mere instruments […]
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A Drone Flew Over Auschwitz, What It Recorded Will Chill You to the Bone
This Drone video was shot by the BBC and shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today – 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet soldiers. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year. Auschwitz was the largest […]
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Adam Dostalek’s March of the Living Documentary
Adam Dostalek’s March of the Living Documentary tells his emotional story of a journey to Poland and Israel. Speaking at the UN International Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Glen Eira Town Hall in Melbourne, Australia, Adam tells us about his experience and the need to continue remembering the Holocaust so that such horror will […]
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The Secret of the Kovno Ghetto Orchestra Discovered
On the night of March 27-28, 1944, at the height of the “Kinder Aktion” in which 1,200 children and elderly men and women from the Kovno Ghetto were murdered and the commanders of the local Jewish police force executed, three prisoners from the ghetto were sent on a special mission. They snuck into the empty […]
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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 accord with German law. As International […]
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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 one, the Holocaust. He celebrates […]
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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 few other books, an 11-volume […]
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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 she couldn’t imagine herself living […]
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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 discovered in storage in Nizhny […]
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