• Alumni Reflections: David Karpel, CAJE, 1988

    Posted by MOTLorg on August 8, 2017

    What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? CAJE Year(s) attended: 1988 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Walking among the stones at Treblinka was powerful, but I most remember the mausoleum at Majdanek. What impact did Poland

  • Former Auschwitz guard, 96, found fit to serve prison sentence

    Posted by MOTLorg on August 6, 2017

    Arutz Sheva – Prosecutors in the German state of Hanover say that a 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard is fit to serve a prison sentence. Oskar Groening was convicted and sentenced in July 2015 to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the

  • How the Nazis Deceived Dutch Jews Before Sending Them to the Death Camps

    Posted by MOTLorg on August 3, 2017

    Haaretz– Nothing about the footage that Rudolf Breslauer filmed here on May 30, 1944, suggests that it was taken inside one of Europe’s largest Nazi concentration camps. In the film by Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Westerbork camp in Holland’s northeast, prisoners are seen playing soccer enthusiastically in team uniforms,

  • Alumni Reflections: Andrea Bolender, HTMC, 2015

    Posted by MOTLorg on August 2, 2017

    Growing up the “shadow of the Shoah” can never be described as a life unaffected. During my youth I often felt I carried the responsibility of making my father , sole survivor of his family, happy and proud of me. It was only much later in life that I realized

  • Remembrance Wall connects B’nai Mitzvah kids to Holocaust, Israel

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 31, 2017

    Jewish Journal – Myrtle G. Sitowitz always has had a special place in her heart for Israel.  She moved from England to the Holy Land in the 1960s, performed in the theater in Tel Aviv and met her Bronx-born husband there before immigrating with him to Los Angeles. When it

  • Alumni Reflections: Valerie Greenfeld, USA, 2017

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 30, 2017

    A SUITCASE OF PERSPECTIVE By Valerie Greenfeld April 29, 2017 To remember the heroes who resisted the Nazis and to mourn for those who were lost, I flew to Poland to walk with thousands of people from around the world from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Since 1988, when communism fell, thousands

  • Three Italian Brothers Try to Find the Cave They Lived in During the Holocaust

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 28, 2017

    JTA — Renting a house in the Italian countryside and eating loads of pasta is about as blissful a vacation as they come. For the three Anati brothers, however, such a trip is a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet the brothers — Bubi, 77; Andrea, 85; and

  • Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 27, 2017

    WARSAW — More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, bringing heartbreaking artifacts to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close. The endeavor

  • She Keeps Memory Of The Holocaust Alive — One Tchotchke At A Time

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 26, 2017

    The Forward – For the past 26 years, Susan Goldstein Snyder, a curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has traveled across the U.S. and Europe meeting with survivors (and, increasingly, their children and grandchildren), listening to their stories, and persuading them to donate their artifacts to the museum.

  • Anti-Semitic Crime At Highest Recorded Level In British History, Study Finds

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 25, 2017

    Forward – (JTA) — Anti-Semitic crime has risen to its highest level in the United Kingdom, according to a new audit released by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. According to the National Antisemitic Crime Audit released on Sunday, anti-Semitic crime in 2016 rose 44 percent from 2014. The audit for 2016 registered