Holocaust Jews: Murdered precisely because they were sinless

In honor of today’s day of fasting, Asarah b’Tevet (the Tenth Day of Tevet), Arutz-7 presents the following piece written in 1942 by Ezriel Carlebach, who served as the first editor-in-chief of Yediot Acharonot,and later the founder and editor of Maariv: We all know and sense with every fiber of

The bones of the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ have become a teaching tool in Brazil

For more than 30 years, the bones of Josef Mengele, a German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, lay unclaimed inside a blue plastic bag in Sao Paulo’s Legal Medical Institute. Dr. Daniel Romero Munoz, who led the team that identified Mengele’s remains in 1985,

Exclusive: Facebook post helps posthumously honor Dutch couple for Holocaust heroism

Nadine Wojak tells the incredible story of finding the relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII – Holocaust Nadine Wojakovski tells the incredible story of tracing relatives of those who saved her mother during WWII In 2015 I published a memoir, based on the true story of my

Colleges aren’t just politically correct — they’re anti-Semitic

It was billed as a rally for students to demand free tuition from public institutions of higher education and lodge a cornucopia of grievances. Instead, some giddy demonstrators devolved into a pack of rabid haters. “Death to Jews! Death to Jews!” members of the crowd shrieked. This didn’t happen in

Steven Sotloff, Beheaded Journalist, Grandson of Holocaust Survivors

60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl interviews the parents of Steven Sotloff, the American-Israeli journalist who was kidnapped in Aleppo, Syria in August 2013. Sotloff, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, was held captive by members of ISIS/ISIL including Mohammed Emwazi (aka Jihadi John), who demanded a $100 million ransom from the

Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lights up in solidarity with Israeli terror victims

Israeli ambassador welcomes gesture, says Israel and Germany will face evil together Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag on Monday, in a show of solidarity with the victims of Sunday’s Jerusalem truck-ramming attack. Four Israeli soldiers aged 20 to 22 were killed in the

Celebrities to Gather for Reading of Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night’

More than 50 luminaries from the performing arts and politics, as well as other public figures, will gather on Jan. 29 to read Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece “Night” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Lower Manhattan. The event, which is presented by the museum and the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene,

Tackling the Holocaust in 140 Characters: The Man Behind Auschwitz Museum’s Twitter Account

Long before he moved to Oswiecim to become the spokesman for the Auschwitz museum and lead its social media effort, Pawel Sawicki’s life was intricately connected to this sleepy Polish town near Krakow. A Warsaw-area journalist for Polish Radio 2, Sawicki used to visit Oswiecim as a boy on holidays

Non-Jewish Poles don yarmulkes to protest anti-Semitism

On a quiet Thursday evening, Café Foksal in central Warsaw suddenly filled up with about 50 people wearing kippahs. The event was unusual for a city with very few observant Jews and an insignificant number of Israeli tourists. What made it exceptional is that almost none of the yarmulke wearers

The Holocaust Survivor Who Hated Anne Frank

The last Holocaust survivor died last week. Well, Trudy (not her real name) wasn’t literally the last survivor – though that day is not far off. But she was my last Holocaust survivor, the last one I knew as a genuine friend, not as a congregant, or a colleague, or