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‘I don’t know the secret’: Holocaust survivor named ‘world’s oldest living man’
A 112-year-old Polish man who survived two World Wars and the Auschwitz concentration camp has been confirmed as the world’s oldest living man. Born in Poland on September 15th, 1903, 112-year-old Israel Kristal was on the brink of death when he was rescued in May of 1945 at the age of 41, weighing just 81 […]
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Museum Honors Poles Who Saved Jews During The Holocaust
Seventy-two years ago, the Holocaust banged on the door of the Ulma family, knocked it down, dragged them all away and ended the lives of 16 people. Eight Polish Jews and eight ethnic Poles died in March 1944 – members of the Diner, Grunfeld and Goldman families, along with Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma, their six […]
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SET Architects installs towering steel Holocaust memorial in a Bologna square
The space at the heart of this rusting steel memorial narrows to a width of just 80 centimetres, designed to make visitors empathise with the “feeling of oppression” experienced by Holocaust victims (+ slideshow). Designed by Rome-based office SET Architects, the Bologna Shoah Memorial is located on a city square in Bologna, Italy, close to the newly installed high-speed train station. […]
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A symbol for an entire generation of heroes
President Rivlin says goodbye to the last survivor from Treblinka, Samuel Willenberg; ‘The story of his life is the eternal story of the Jewish people,’ the president eulogizes. I stand here today awestruck. Before your freshly dug grave, Samuel. Before your courage and spirit. In the face of such heroism, and Jewish courage. I stand […]
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Cyprus unveils holocaust monument (PICTURES)
Cyprus and Israel’s defence ministers unveiled a monument on Wednesday, honouring children of Holocaust survivors whose passage to Israel went through the island more than half a century ago. Israeli minister Moshe Ya’alon arrived in the morning in what was a historic first official visit by an Israeli Minister of Defence to the Cyprus, as […]
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Oving Architecten shrouds concentration camp house in glass as a memorial to the holocaust
The former home of an SS commander at Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, has been enclosed within a giant glass vitrine by Dutch studio Oving Architecten. Intended as a memorial to the second world war, the large glass box creates a vitrine-like enclosure around the clapboard residence of SS commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker. According to […]
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US Holocaust museum to collect items for time capsule
WASHINGTON – The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking messages and personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors for a time capsule to be opened on the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2043. The capsule will be on display in the museum’s David and Fela Shapell Family Collections and Conservation Center in Bowie, Maryland, which is scheduled to […]
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University of Oklahoma Will Return Camille Pissarro Painting to Holocaust Survivor
Camille Pissarro, Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep (1886). Photo: Courtesy the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. After a three-year legal dispute, the University of Oklahoma (OU) has agreed to return Camille Pissarro‘s 1886 painting La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) to French Holocaust survivor Léone Meyer. The terms of the settlement […]
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The Last Train Before the War
There is a photograph of my father and grandfather, taken on Sunday, Aug. 27, 1939, at a spot overlooking the Rhine above the Lorelei Rock, where the chasm of the river tightens and the quickened flow makes a murmuring sound, which has mystical resonance for the Germans. My dad had emigrated to Canada in 1934. […]
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Holocaust Survivors Struggle To Prove Their Cases as Claims Conference Cracks Down
Seventy-eight-year-old Izrail Gelman received $70,000 in Holocaust restitution payments from the German government over nearly 20 years. Now, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which distributed the money, is demanding it all back. He has until March 10 to make the payment. “He has no way to pay,” said Alexander Gelman, Izrail’s brother. […]
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