• German lawyers expand Holocaust survivor outreach

    Even if German authorities track down all surviving Nazi operatives and convict them as accessories to the murder of Jews in World War II, such work will not be done, German lawyers involved in such trials told a small gathering in Highland Hills Aug. 24. In fact, said Christoph Rueckel, the impulses that gave rise […]

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  • The Poles Are Friends to Israel, Not Holocaust Deniers

    It was with disquietude and disbelief that I read Ofer Aderet’s report, “Yad Vashem Officials Slam Polish Government: ‘New Bill Is Very Close to Holocaust Denial’” (Haaretz, Aug. 24). It is unfortunate that the complex draft law approved by the Polish Council of Ministers on August 16 — which does not refer exclusively to the […]

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  • Letter to the Editor of the Canadian Jewish News

    We were very disappointed to read Rabbi Dow Marmur’s negative remarks about the March of the Living, and fully agree with the response signed by the 26 Toronto Holocaust survivors who have dedicated their lives to sharing their stories and the lessons of the Shoah. International March of the Living completely rejects Rabbi Marmur’s description […]

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  • Just remembering is not enough in this climate

    R eremembering is not enough, when people today are rejected because of their ethnicity, gender or belief. This is my view as I sit reflecting on the National Holocaust Centre and Museum’s 20th anniversary and the continuing need for Holocaust education today. I could not have imagined 20 years ago when the National Holocaust Centre was […]

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  • Actor makes documentary on Japanese who helped Jews escape Holocaust

    TOKYO — A London-based Japanese actor has created a short documentary film that sheds light on individuals who helped Jews escape from Nazi persecution as well as those who have worked to see that this history is passed on. “There was a Japanese diplomat who issued visas in defiance of the Japanese government to allow thousands […]

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  • Our Responsibility As Third Generation Holocaust Survivors

    The passing of Elie Wiesel serves as a timely reminder that one day soon Holocaust survivors will no longer be able to tell their own stories. In a world where Holocaust denial is rampant, Generation Y and Z prefer videogames to reading books, and sensationalist culture has inspired apathy to the horrors of mass murder, […]

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  • From Auschwitz To Treblinka: ‘Never Again’ Is The Unmistakable Lesson Of Holocaust

    Arbeit Macht Frei! Passing through the arch bearing the inscription meaning “Work Will Set You Free”, one is engulfed with diverse thoughts and emotions. The sea of diverse and youthful faces at the main entrance might give the impression that one was about to enter a monument of past glory. But the remains of the […]

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  • Ellen Tarlow, Holocaust survivor and educator

    Ellen Meinberg Tarlow, 88, formerly of Glenside, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped Germany for America and later told of her family’s ordeal at the hands of the Nazis, died Sunday, Aug. 21, of heart failure at the Quadrangle in Haverford. Mrs. Tarlow lived through Kristallnacht – Nov. 9 and 10, 1938 – when, as […]

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  • HOW JUDITH LEIBER SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST TO BECOME A CELERBITY HANDBAG ICON

    At 95, Judith Leiber carefully walks down an aisle of her palladian-style Hamptons museum surrounded by 1,500 handbags, most of them bedazzled with thousands of crystals. Her eyes graze two small metal clutches—one shaped like an eggplant and the other, an asparagus. “I just thought it was a good idea to try to make something strange we’d […]

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  • WAVING THE FLAG AT AUSCHWITZ IS NOT AN ‘EXERCISE IN CHAUVINISM’

    In his recent column in The Canadian Jewish News (There’s More to Polish Jewry than the Holocaust,) Rabbi Dow Marmur suggests that the March of the Living fosters “disdain for Poles and Poland…ignores most of Polish-Jewish history”, and promotes the “indiscriminate loathing of another people.” Rabbi Marmur also suggests that girls and boys wrapped in Israeli flags […]

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