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Ten Holocaust Survivors recognised by Queen in New Year’s Honours
TEN HOLOCAUST survivors have been honoured by the Queen for their work in spreading awareness about the horrors of the Nazi era. Zigi Shipper, Susan Pollack, Ivor Perl, Lilly Ebert, Chaim Ferster, Jack Kagan, Freddie Knoller, Rudy Oppenheimer, Rene Salt and Agnes Grunwald-Spier are all included in the New Year’s Honours List at the end […]
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Holocaust Council obtains survivor’s art
Nine paintings by a Lithuanian survivor of the Shoa are now in the possession of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ, thanks to a gift from the Hofstra University Museum on Long Island. Barbara Wind, director of the Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest, arranged for the federation to acquire the paintings of the late […]
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Amsterdam to Halt in Memory of Strike Over Nazi Persecution of Jews
In 1941, tram drivers objected to roundup of Jewish men, and a rare public show of disobedience spread across the city. Tram traffic in the Dutch capital will grind to a halt in commemoration of a general strike orchestrated 75 years ago in protest of Nazi persecution of Jews. Amsterdam’s tram network – the city’s […]
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Holocaust denial on the rise in Eastern Europe
After Lithuania changed the definition of ‘genocide’ and Baltic countries have turned murderers of Jews into national heroes, Holocaust researchers are accusing the State of Israel of standing idly by as history is being re-written. The testimonies are fading away, the memorial sites are turning into entertainment centers, and the historical story is seen as […]
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Opening of Holocaust era archives may shed light on French collaboration with Nazis
Holocaust historians this week welcomed Paris’s decision to open up the records of the Vichy regime, a puppet government set up by the Germans during the Second World War, stating that the newly accessible documents may shed light on the nature of French collaboration with the Nazis. During the war the Germans established a collaborationist […]
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How Hitler’s PERSONAL photographer captured for history the plight of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland
She has such natural beauty, she could pass for a movie star. She smiles, her demeanour relaxed. In normal times, this young woman would surely have enjoyed a bright and happy future, perhaps with a husband, children, grandchildren. But soon after this photograph was taken, she would face almost certain death. The haunting image is […]
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Growing Up Absurd in Auschwitz
An immersion in Auschwitz during the mass murder frenzy of October 1944, when the gassing of Hungarian Jews had been nearly completed, Son of Saul—a first feature by the French-Hungarian director László Nemes—is not a movie to recommend lightly. It is also, as a fictional film that depicts, in what might almost be a single […]
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The Fake Diamond Ring That Saved Jews From the Nazis
Inside a tiny box in a temperature-controlled, locked cabinet at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is a ring. It is not particularly beautiful, and in purely monetary terms, it is not particularly valuable. But behind this ring is a beautiful story of survival of Jews living under Nazi occupation—people for whom the ring’s […]
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German cinema rediscovers Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — With two new films, German cinema has rediscovered the country’s fiercest Nazi hunter, former prosecutor Fritz Bauer, honoring a man who fought against post-war amnesia about the Holocaust. A Jewish atheist and Social Democrat who spent time in a Nazi concentration camp before going into war-time exile, Bauer became “the most […]
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Broward County Student Awareness Day draws record attendance to hear Survivor stories
A record of 1,225 Broward County high school students learned about the Holocaust through the testimony of many survivors, as well as the screening of the 2005 documentary “I’m Still Here,” based on the diaries of teens, many who perished in the Holocaust. The event titled “Broward County Student Awareness Day: A Prejudice Reduction and […]
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