• Holocaust survivor Batszewa Dagan donates lucky charm to Auschwitz museum

    A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor has donated a tiny good luck charm that she says helped her live through three years in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Batszewa Dagan donated a pair of miniature shoes, measuring barely a centimetre in length, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, which is based at the site of the World War […]

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  • It Took My Mother 50 Years To Talk To Me About Her Experience In the Holocaust—When She Finally Did I Was Speechless

    As a Holocaust researcher, Hermann Simon had heard numerous survivor’s stories, but it wasn’t until his mother was 75 years old that she allowed him to hear her own. If I had to locate the exact point in time when I began thinking about preserving my mother’s memories of her survival underground in Berlin during […]

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  • Outpouring of antisemitism in Hungary after Hungarian Holocaust drama wins Golden Globe

    Following the award of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film to Hungarian Holocaust drama Son of Saulyesterday, Hungary has witnessed an outpouring of antisemitism. Hungary’s largest online newspaper, Index, published some of the worst examples. It includes a flood of comments denying the Holocaust and also blaming the Hungarian Prime Minister for congratulating the film’s creators, claiming that […]

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  • Complaint Filed Against Belgian Daily That Published Holocaust Denier’s Claims

    A Belgian Jewish newspaper filed an official complaint last week with the country’s watchdog on journalism about a daily that published a Holocaust denier’s claim that no one died in Nazi gas chambers. The Antwerp-based Joods Actueel monthly filed the complaint against the De Morgen daily, the monthly’s editor-in-chief, Michael Freilich, told JTA Monday. In its […]

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  • Holocaust told as it was

    On Wednesday, January 27, students of History, Religious Education and Citizenship from secondary schools across Wirral will travel to the Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton to hear testimony from Holocaust survivor Joanna Millan as part of a visit organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET). The event will include a presentation from Wirral pupils who […]

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  • Holocaust Remembrance Day: A New Generation of Rescuers?

    On January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, people throughout the world will remember victims of the Holocaust. In Lithuania, teachers and students will join this day of commemoration by launching a project called “The Rescue of Another is the Highest Human Virtue.” The new project aims to “encourage the younger generation to understand that everyone […]

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  • Remembering the Holocaust is ‘as urgent as ever’, says Lincoln group who pledge not to stand by

    Holocaust Memorial Day is being commemorated in Lincoln with a commitment not to stand by and do nothing. The Lincoln branch of the Council of Christians and Jews, the Lincoln Independent Jewish Minyan and St John the Baptist Parish Church, Ermine, will be hosting the event at the church on Wednesday, January 27. The aim […]

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  • ‘Art From the Holocaust’: The Beauty and Brutality in Forbidden Works

    BERLIN — When Nelly Toll was 8 years old, during World War II, she rewrote the Cinderella fairy tale with a feminist twist. Instead of Prince Charming, a powerful princess invited Cinderella to live in her castle and enjoy a pianist performing in a sun-drenched room. Ms. Toll illustrated her story in seven watercolors, basing […]

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  • David Stoliar, Survivor of World War II Disaster, Dies at 91

    (The death of David Stoliar, in 2014, received little attention outside Oregon, where he lived. The New York Times, which had prepared an obituary, learned of his death on Friday.) For more than a half-century, David Stoliar remained a silent witness to the worst civilian maritime disaster of World War II, the only survivor among […]

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  • Turkish synagogue vandalized following first prayer service held in 65 years

    Vandals wrote “Terrorist Israel, there is Allah,” on the external walls of the synagogue structure. Vandals spray-painted hate graffiti on the Istipol Synagogue in Istanbul just days after a one-time prayer service was held, the first in 65 years, the Turkish publication Today’s Zaman reported on Tuesday. Vandals wrote “Terrorist Israel, there is Allah,” on […]

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