-
First Ever Holocaust Survivor Testimony in Room-Scale Virtual Reality to World Premiere at 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
Virtual reality lab LightShed, in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation, MPC VR, OTOY, Inc., and HERE BE DRAGONS, proudly announce the world premiere of the first-ever Holocaust survivor testimony in room-scale VR, THE LAST GOODBYE, at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T. The experience will premiere within the Festival’s cutting edge new media […]
Continue reading -
Holocaust Ghetto Photographs Survived Buried in the Ground – Gardeners 1940-1944
“The scarecrow too has to carry the yellow star.” Henryk Ross, Polish, 1910 – 1991. Boy searching for food. Photojournalist Henryk Ross was forced to work by the Nazi regime as a bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration’s statistics department. He was one of at least 160,000 people held in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. […]
Continue reading -
Holocaust survivor Eva Kor to receive Indiana’s top honor
IndyStar – Eva Mozes Kor, a Holocaust survivor who endured Nazi death camp experiments and founded a museum in Terre Haute to preserve that history, is being awarded one of Indiana’s highest honors. Kor, who lost much of her family at the Auschwitz death camp but went on to be an advocate for forgiveness, will […]
Continue reading -
Seeing the Holocaust through eyes of twins
The Straits Times – Pearl and Stasha Zamorski are identical twins in Auschwitz. At first, this is their saving grace; later, it becomes their ruin. The Zamorski twins are fictional, but much of Affinity Konar’s debut novel, Mischling, is steeped in fact, making it a harrowing and, sometimes, heartbreaking read. History has told us the […]
Continue reading -
Holocaust survivor: ‘I became B-1148 instead of a human being’
Yahoo News – Michael Bornstein was a small child when Nazi soldiers sent him and his family to one of the most evil places the world has ever known. “From what we’ve been told, children my age, about 4, survived about two weeks at Auschwitz. I was able to survive a much longer time,” Bornstein, […]
Continue reading -
Purim – Rejoicing the Holocaust that was diverted
Jerusalem Post – Purim has a special significance for me. My parents barely survived the Holocaust, and the rest of my extended family didn’t. This special significance reawakens every time I read the Megillah, and in my mind’s eye I try to translate the words of the Megillah into a realistic, historical picture. Purim in […]
Continue reading -
Rabbi Sacks on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is dangerously wrong because beneath the surface it’s an attempt to delegtimize Israel as a prelude to its elimination. No Jew and no humanitarian can stand by and see that happen. Let me explain why. (Learn more from Rabbi Sacks visit www.RabbiSacks.org. Video produced by www.WhiteAnimation.com.)
Continue reading -
Amazon removes Holocaust denial books from sale
Titles which question or reject the Holocaust have been taken off the site, following discussions with the Board of Deputies Amazon UK has removed four books from sale which question or deny the Holocaust, following discussions with the Board of Deputies. The titles, including ‘Holocaust: The Greatest Lie Ever Told’ and ‘The Case Against the […]
Continue reading -
March of the Living Sponsors Holocaust Educational Symposium at Loyola Law School on The Nuremberg Laws and The Nuremberg Trials
On Tuesday, February 28th, International March of the Living co-sponsored a Holocaust Educational Symposium on the Nuremberg Laws and the Nuremberg Trials, held at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, in cooperation with the International and Comparative Law Review and Loyola Center for the Study of Law and Genocide. The Nuremberg Laws, which were implemented […]
Continue reading -
March of the Living Seminar at Polin Jewish Museum in Warsaw
In February 2017, March of The Living leaders and organizers from the UK and South American held seminars at the Polin Jewish Museum in Warsaw. They studied how to use affectively and professionally the limited time they have, when visit the Museum with their delegations. In addition to the program at the Museum, they visit […]
Continue reading