Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Forever will I see the children who no longer have the strength to cry. Forever will I see the elderly who no longer have the strength to help them. Forever will I see the mothers and the fathers, the grandfathers and grandmothers, the little school children…their teachers…the righteous and the pious…. From where do we […]

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor, dies at 87

Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, prolific author and outspoken activist Elie Wiesel died Saturday at the age of 87. Wiesel was perhaps best known for his major role in promoting Holocaust education, and for perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust in the post-World War II era with his memoir “Night,” based on his experience as […]

New law requires lessons on Holocaust in R.I. public schools

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island schools will have to teach students about genocide and the Holocaust under a new law signed by the governor. Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo announced last week that she signed the bill. Beginning in fall 2017, school districts will have to educate middle or high school students about the subject […]

Inspired by grandfather, boxer heads to Israel

When he makes his first trip to Israel this summer, Dustin Fleischer is anticipating “a great cultural journey.” He will be part of an Aug. 10-21 Birthright Israel trip sponsored by the Jewish Federation in the Heart of NJ. In a June 20 interview with NJ Jewish News, the professional boxer from Monmouth Beach said […]

Memorial of the Lviv Ghetto Defaced by anti-Semitic Vandals

A monument to the victims of the Holocaust-era ghetto of Lviv in western Ukraine was vandalized in what police suspect is an anti-Semitic incident. Unidentified vandals on Friday through several gallons of green paint on the memorial, which was erected in 1992 in memory of tens of thousands of Jews who were kept in the […]

Alumni Reflection: Gregory Frank, UK, 2016

Alumni Reflection: Michelle Poler Stramwasser

“Since I was very little I’ve been hearing stories about the holocaust. These were not stories that a friend of a friend told me. These were my family stories. My grandmother used to tell me about the times she was separated from my grandpa, not knowing if he was alive. Whenever I wouldn’t eat she […]

NSU to open Holocaust room at library

Beginning in September, Nova Southeastern University in Davie will open its new Holocaust Reflection and Resource Room at its Alvin Sherman Library on campus. The room will be created as a result of a gift from Craig and Barbara Weiner presented to the University at the Alvin Sherman Library Circle of Friends gala event that […]

March of the Living Documentary by Jessica Sanders

Visit Films and Filmland International Presents: MARCH OF THE LIVING A Feature Documentary Directed and Written by Jessica Sanders Download on iTunes  Every year thousands of teenagers and remaining Holocaust survivors from around the world come together in Poland to revisit the sites of the Holocaust and retrace the Death March from Auschwitz to Birkenau […]

Holocaust survivor in Lincolnshire reflects on his experience

Steen Metz didn’t know he was Jewish until he and his parents were herded into cattle cars and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. It was Oct. 2, 1943 — the beginning of Rosh Hashanah and the middle of the Holocaust. He was eight-years-old. Up until that point, Metz and his family […]