Silent children of the Holocaust making their voices heard

The Holocaust is often told as the story of loss, quantified by concrete numbers, specific dates, sites of persecution and searing images that scorch our collective psyche. But to a group of survivors known as the “hidden children,” the Holocaust is far more diffuse and elusive. It lurks in the

Researchers uncover vast numbers of unknown Nazi killing fields

In 2000, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, tasked researchers with creating a comprehensive, single-source record that would accurately document the thousands of persecution sites the Nazis had established. The USHMM estimated that the team would uncover about 5,000 persecution sites, which would include forced labor camps,

Rome road race to commemorate the Holocaust

A road race passing sites of Holocaust and Jewish remembrance in Rome will highlight events in Italy marking International Holocaust Memorial Day. The “Run for Mem” — short for Run for Remembrance: Looking Ahead — is scheduled for Jan. 22, five days before the observance of International Holocaust Memorial Day marking

Reflections on International Holocaust Remembrance Day by Rabbi Fred Guttman

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day was chosen because it is the anniversary of the liberation of the horrendous and unparalleled death camp Auschwitz in 1945. At Auschwitz, some 1,200,000 people were murdered. Most of them were Jews, including some 430,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported in

Noah Klieger, z”l, Keynote Speaker at the UN, Jan 27, 2017

On January 27, 2017, Noah Klieger, z”l, was the Keynote Speaker at the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Read more about Noah HERE.

Surviving the Holocaust: ‘I didn’t allow any hatred to grow. But I don’t blame those who did’

Among the horrors that Primo Levi quietly and even matter-of-factly documents in If This Is A Man – that greatest of all accounts of incarceration in a Nazi death camp – is a dream of invisibility. Not invisibility in the here-and-now of camp life, which might have been welcomed, but

How Jared Kushner Became a Teenage Hero — and Learned To Be a Zionist

Almost 20 years before Jared Kushner became a chief adviser to Donald Trump, a man who has boasted about groping women’s genitals, he rescued a teenage girl from a groping attack in Poland. The incident happened in 1998, when Kushner was a high school participant in the March of the

#WeRemember: Over 200,000 people post their photos to commemorate Holocaust

More than 200,000 people from around the world have posted photos of themselves on social media holding signs saying “We Remember” in dozens of languages ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The social media campaign was launched two weeks ago by the World Jewish Congress in honor of the commemoration, which

Expert: Anti-Semitism is a global problem

Bar Ilan University will held a conference titled, “The Challenge of Fighting Anti-Semitism.” The conference is in memory of Chaim Herzog, who tore up the UN document claiming “Zionism is racism.” Coalition Chairman David Bitan (Likud), Opposition Head Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) and other MKs will participate in the conference, which

Sixteen violins, recovered from Holocaust, will talk again

When asked what it will feel like to play a different violin in an upcoming concert, Jonathan Kuo prefaces his thoughts with an interesting choice of verbs. “I haven’t met the violin yet,” he says. For professional violinists, their instruments aren’t just objects made of wood and string. They are