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There’s A Reason This Holocaust Survivor Goes Back To His Synagogue In Greece Every Summer
“I promised myself that no matter where I wound up, I would return to Rhodes every summer to say ‘never again.’” “Never again,” 86 year-old Auschwitz survivor Sami Mondiano says, calmly yet firmly, as he addresses a group of tourists in the Kahal Shalom synagogue on the Greek island of Rhodes. Modiano and his wife of […]
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New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers
(JTA) — In 1940, as he was being transported to safety in the lower deck of a ship, the Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger asked Waitstill Sharp why the American Unitarian minister had bothered to rescue him from the Nazis. Sharp and his wife, Martha, had spent much of the previous two years smuggling Jews out of […]
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Joseph Harmatz, Who Led Jewish Plot to Kill Germans After World War II, Dies at 91
Imagine a real-life version of “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s quixotic movie about Jewish avengers in World War II — but in this case involving a plot by a band of refugees to kill millions of Germans just after the war by poisoning their water supply. The plot, which targeted five major cities in retribution for […]
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Shimon Peres 1923-2016 ז״ל
The International March of the Living Board of Directors, Staff, Global Leadership and Alumni around the world deeply mourn the passing of our friend and fellow Marcher Shimon Peres ז״ל. May his memory be a blessing. “Nobody could have broken us. They hate us, they persecute us, they killed many of us, but we remain and we shall […]
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Video & Transcript: President Shimon Peres Message – 2016 March of the Living Latrun on Yom Ha’atsmaut
You already made the March of the Living. From the abyss of Jewish History, the Shoah, the lowest, most tragic point in our life, to the summit of Jewish achievements, the State of Israel. The lowest and highest. I know people say that Israel is a miracle. Israel is not a miracle – Israel is […]
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March of the Living on The Shtick with Renny Rychter
Renny Richter, Co-President of March of the Living, tells us about the amazing experience of traveling to Poland and Israel in a group, dedicated to the Memory of the Holocaust, commemorating Yom Hashoah in Poland, then Yom Hazikaron and celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut in Israel.
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The True Tale of the Woman Who Took Down the Holocaust Denier
Denial’ is a new film based on the real-life legal battle between Deborah Lipstadt and the man who claimed the Holocaust never happened. In the fall of 1994, Deborah Lipstadt walked into an auditorium at DeKalb Community College in Atlanta, prepared to give a lecture on Holocaust denial. Little did she know that the events […]
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Hungarian Neo-Nazis Vandalize Holocaust Protest ‘Living Memorial’
The Living Memorial, a monument in Budapest’s Liberty Square, was vandalized over the weekend, after a call by the neo-Nazi website Kuruc.info to destroy it, the website Hungarian Free Press reported Sunday. The Living Memorial was erected back in 2014 in protest against the monument to the German occupation erected by the government, which deflects […]
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World’s Oldest Working Journalist, 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Noah Klieger, Fears Nazi Genocide Will Be Forgotten in 50 Years
One of Israel’s best-known Holocaust survivors told a packed audience in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening about his genuine fear that the Nazi genocide will not be remembered 50 years from now. Noah Klieger expressed this concern at an event that doubled as the release of a documentary film about his having staved off the gas chambers at Auschwitz […]
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Holocaust Survivor Has One Regret About Hunting Nazis
(AP) TEL AVIV, Israel — Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors to seek revenge, the leader of the plot has only one simple regret — that to his knowledge, he didn’t actually kill any Nazis. Joseph Harmatz is one of the few remaining Jewish “Avengers” who carried out a mass […]
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