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A History of the Holocaust for the Tucson Community
“When you walk in, you walk in something that is very much like a cattle car door,” said Samuel Cohon, Senior Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, as he described the experience of visiting the newly expanded Holocaust History Center. To enter the exhibit, visitors must walk through a barn-sized wooden door framed by stripped steel rods. […]
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Hoenlein evokes Holocaust in UN address on Rwanda genocide
The head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization evoked the Holocaust and Passover at a UN ceremony marking the 22nd anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman and CEO of the umbrella group, spoke Monday in General Assembly Hall in New York on the International Day of Reflection […]
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Federal grants to assist Holocaust survivors draw praise, concern
In the past month, it was announced by the U.S. federal government that $2.8 million in federal grants has been released to 23 Jewish social-service agencies around the country to help caregivers and medical professionals give support to aging Holocaust survivors. Locally, the Jewish social-service agencies involved include the Ferd & Gladys Alpert Jewish Family […]
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The Human Spirit: Death in the forests
You discover that your grandfather had a role, even a relatively small one, in the mass murder of Jews. You’re a public figure, a journalist, your country’s best-selling author, a mother of two. What do you do? If you are Ruta Vanagaite, you engage in what we Jews call tshuva, a process best translated as […]
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March of the Living Hungary – Az Élet Menete Budapesten – 2016 – élő közvetítés – live streaming
BUDAPEST MARCH OF THE LIVING LIVE STREAM – APRIL 17, 2016
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March of the Living to be held in Budapest on Sunday
Tens of thousands of participants are expected for the annual March of the Living in the Hungarian capital on Sunday, 17 April 2016. http://www.eletmenete.hu/ For the past 14 years, the Hungarian March of the Living Foundation has organized the Budapest March. Last year, more than 40.000 people commemorated the victims of the Shoah and heard a keynote […]
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Why Did Adolf Hitler Hate the Jews?
One can’t consider the Holocaust without wondering about the source of Adolf Hitler’s hatred for the Jews. Although much of his political manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” was devoted to explaining that hatred, which was clearly shared by an enthusiastic German nation, the actions taken against Europe’s Jews were so monstrous in both nature and scale that […]
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International jurists to mark double Nuremberg anniversary
The Educational organization March of the Living, which each year after Passover brings people from all over the world to Poland and Israel to study the Holocaust, will mark the 80th anniversary of the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials with a gathering of international jurists in Krakow, […]
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Notable Nuremberg Legal Conference to Convene
NEW YORK, April 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — March of the Living International will mark the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Laws and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials with a gathering of leading international jurists, legal scholars and political leaders from around the world organized with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and Jagiellonian […]
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The Polish hipster who inherited a Warsaw building after discovering he’s Jewish
Two years ago, the serenity of the residents at 62 Zlota Street was disturbed. Krzysztof Gutkowski and Ida Zagrzejewska, a thirty-something Polish couple, entered the large building in the Polish capital with unusual news. “Nice to meet you, we are your new landlords,” they told the dozens of speechless tenants. “They were afraid we had […]
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