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The girl who survived the Holocaust: Woman shares harrowing momentos from Bergen-Belsen on special Antiques Roadshow
Unique artefacts that survived the Holocaust were showcased on a special edition of the Antiques Roadshow. The items, including a pair of striped pyjamas from Auschwitz and food bowls from Bergen Belsen, each tell remarkable stories from Europe’s darkest days. And one Holocaust survivor, Zahava Kohn, 81, today tells how she and her parents were […]
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After the Holocaust, Only This Young Composer’s Music Survived
One of the greatest tragedies of the Holocaust (itself the greatest tragedy of modern history) is the irreplaceable loss of talent – not just of the people who were murdered, but also the works, discoveries and inventions that were murdered along with them. Earlier today, the Boston Globe published a story about one of those myriad […]
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Holocaust Jews: Murdered precisely because they were sinless
In honor of today’s day of fasting, Asarah b’Tevet (the Tenth Day of Tevet), Arutz-7 presents the following piece written in 1942 by Ezriel Carlebach, who served as the first editor-in-chief of Yediot Acharonot,and later the founder and editor of Maariv: We all know and sense with every fiber of our heart: The victims [that […]
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The bones of the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ have become a teaching tool in Brazil
For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985, saw an opportunity to put […]
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Exclusive: Facebook post helps posthumously honor Dutch couple for Holocaust heroism
Nadine Wojak tells the incredible story of finding the relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII – Holocaust Nadine Wojakovski tells the incredible story of tracing relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII In 2015 I published a memoir, based on the true story of my mother Renata Bitterman’s life in […]
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Colleges aren’t just politically correct — they’re anti-Semitic
It was billed as a rally for students to demand free tuition from public institutions of higher education and lodge a cornucopia of grievances. Instead, some giddy demonstrators devolved into a pack of rabid haters. “Death to Jews! Death to Jews!” members of the crowd shrieked. This didn’t happen in Germany in the 1930s, nor […]
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Steven Sotloff, Beheaded Journalist, Grandson of Holocaust Survivors
60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl interviews the parents of Steven Sotloff, the American-Israeli journalist who was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria in August 2013. Sotloff, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, was held captive by members of ISIS/ISIL including Mohammed Emwazi (aka Jihadi John), who demanded a $100 million ransom from the U.S. government (and for all […]
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Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lights up in solidarity with Israeli terror victims
Israeli ambassador welcomes gesture, says Israel and Germany will face evil together Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag on Monday, in a show of solidarity with the victims of Sunday’s Jerusalem truck-ramming attack. Four Israeli soldiers aged 20 to 22 were killed in the attack when East Jerusalem resident […]
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Celebrities to Gather for Reading of Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’
More than 50 luminaries from the performing arts and politics, as well as other public figures, will gather on Jan. 29 to read Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece “Night” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan. The event, which is presented by the museum and the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, is meant to honor both […]
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Tackling the Holocaust in 140 Characters: The Man Behind Auschwitz Museum’s Twitter Account
Long before he moved to Oswiecim to become the spokesman for the Auschwitz museum and lead its social media effort, Pawel Sawicki’s life was intricately connected to this sleepy Polish town near Krakow. A Warsaw-area journalist for Polish Radio 2, Sawicki used to visit Oswiecim as a boy on holidays to stay with his grandparents […]
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