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Watch Testimony Clips in New Book from the March of the Living
A smartphone app makes it possible to view testimony clips from the Visual History Archive that are linked to the new book Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations. Witness is inspired by the United Nations’ touring photography exhibit “When You Listen to a Witness, You Become a Witness,” which was organized by the […]
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Book Reveals New Info On FDR And Stephen Wise: An Interview with Historian Rafael Medoff
Interview with Dr. Rafael Medoff, the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of 16 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest is “The Anguish of a Jewish Leader: Stephen S. Wise and the Holocaust” (available on Kindle from Amazon.com or as a free downloadable PDF fromwww.WymanInstitute.org). The Jewish […]
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Honoring the Moroccan King Who Saved the Jews
The line to enter New York City’s B’nai Jeshurun synagogue on Sunday night went around the block. But the 700 people who crowded the sidewalk on West 88th street weren’t there for services. Or for a wedding. Or a late-night bar mitzvah. They came to celebrate a king — a Moroccan king, to be exact. […]
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Alumni Reflection: Mike Kaufmann, 1995
THE PROLOGUE I went to Poland in April of 1995 on the March of the Living Tour.My intention was not to have an exhibition but to have photographs for my own use. I took along several cameras including black and white film, being the photographic medium of the time.There are a number of photographs that are […]
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Hungary drops plan for statue to honour Second World War politician
Plans to erect a statue of a former Hungarian minister who drafted antisemitic legislation during the Holocaust have been cancelled after protests. Second World War politician Balint Homan was partly responsible for drafting legislation in 1938 and 1939 to restrict the rights of Hungarian Jews. He served as minister of education and religion twice between […]
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Holocaust survivor helps Canada’s kidnapped aboriginals heal
Octogenarian Robbie Waisman active in national effort to address 150 years of murder and abuse faced by First Nations children Robbie Waisman, a Holocaust survivor living in Vancouver, has a personal interest in the release earlier this week of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), which was set up […]
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Brazil’s Jews Honor Soccer Team That Helped Fight Nazis
Jewish supporters paid tribute Sunday to a major Brazilian soccer club for supporting Brazil’s fight against the Nazis during World War II. Idish-Flu, a group of Jewish supporters of the Fluminense Football Club, led the celebration at the club headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, during which they lit the candles of a seven-foot-high menorah painted […]
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Polish security firm brings volunteers to help defend Israelis from terror
The visit is part of the initiative of Benjamin Krasicki, president of the board of the Warsaw based City Security. One of Poland’s largest security firms brought to Israel 20 of its top experts to help prevent Palestinian terrorist attacks. The group arrived last week in Israel, where its members met with officials, including Israel’s […]
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Tibor Rubin Is Dead at 86; Medal of Honor Was Delayed by Anti-Semitism
“When Corporal Rubin’s battalion found itself ambushed by thousands of Chinese troops,” the president said at a White House ceremony, “the Americans’ firepower soon dwindled to a single machine gun. The weapon was in an exposed position and three soldiers had already died manning it. That was when Corporal Rubin stepped forward. He fought until […]
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On a Cold, Dark Oslo Street Corner, Remembering Norway’s Lost Jews
It took 45 minutes for the twelve people to read out the names of 767 Norwegian Jews deported by the Norwegian authorities during the Nazi occupation. By Lene Johansen Twelve people are standing in a circle under a streetlight at the base of the historic fortress in the center of Oslo. It is only 4 […]
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