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500 Years Later The Mysterious Origin of the Word ‘Ghetto’
Five hundred years ago, in the year 1516, the first official ghetto was established, in Venice. It isn’t that Jews hadn’t lived in isolation in Europe’s cities before. They had, by choice. The nature of their religious observance requires Jews to live near a synagogue, a Jewish butcher, and Jewish ritual baths, among other specialized […]
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Art From The Holocaust: The Stories Behind The Images
A historic new exhibit, Art from the Holocaust, opened in the rear wing of the German Historical Museum in Berlin last week. For the first time ever, art from the collection of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Museum is being shown outside in Germany. The exhibit features 100 works, mostly drawings and paintings, by Jewish inmates of […]
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THOUSANDS OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS WERE DENIED COMPENSATION BY BRITAIN, RECORDS REVEAL
U.K. government officials forced victims of Nazi persecution to relive their harrowing experiences for years as they questioned their rights to compensation, newly released records have revealed. In 1964, the German government agreed to contribute a total of £1 million ($1.4 million) to a fund to compensate British victims or their dependants, and more than […]
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Holocaust survivor shares experiences with students
A room full of junior high school students sat and listened attentively while Leah Goltzman shared her childhood story. The 78-year-old Holocaust survivor told about 130 Banquete Junior High School students at the Jewish Community Center to never take freedom for granted. Their eyes widened as the Poland native talked about moving from town to […]
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Imre Kertesz, Nobel Laureate Who Survived Holocaust, Dies at 86
Imre Kertesz, a Nobel laureate who was acclaimed for his semi-autobiographical novels on surviving the Holocaust and its aftermath, died on Thursday at his home in Budapest. He was 86. His death was confirmed by Krisztian Nyary, the head of Magveto Publishing, which publishes Mr. Kertesz’s works in his native Hungary. Mr. Nyary said Mr. […]
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Personal experiences, lessons of Holocaust focus of discussion
In 1905, a Spanish philosopher wrote words that have been repeated often during the past 111 years: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Other philosophers and world leaders have borrowed George Santayana’s thought through the years, but the notion is the same: Learn from past atrocities and make sure they […]
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48 years since expulsion of Poland’s Jews
By Daniel Schatz This month marks the 48th anniversary of the state-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign of March 1968 in communist Poland. The last remaining survivors of the Holocaust – in a country that, prior to the war, had more than three million Jewish citizens – were declared to be “foreigners,” “Zionists,” “cosmopolitans” and the ultimate enemies […]
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Bulgaria Marks Anniversary of Prevention of Deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Holocaust Death Camps
Senior politicians, members of the Bulgarian Jewish community and diplomats took part in ceremonies on March 10 2016 commemorating the country’s 1943 prevention of the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi death camps and honouring the memory of the more than six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. At ceremonies in Sofia, participants paid to […]
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New voices add to history of Holocaust
A LOT has been written about the horrors of Auschwitz and the suffering of its victims. Yet in the eyes of Israeli historian Gideon Greif, the body of literature on Auschwitz cannot be considered complete without a reference to the Jews who worked in that factory of death. His research on Auschwitz, spanning 40 years, […]
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Survivor tells of life as a child during Holocaust
Holocaust survivor Alex Buckman shared traumatic stories from his childhood during a presentation for students Tuesday at South Delta Secondary. Buckman, originally from Brussels, was born Oct. 31, 1939. Ten months later the Nazis invaded Belgium. “Then everything changed for my family,” he said. He explained how, for his protection, he was placed with different […]
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