MARCH OF THE LIVING STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTS OF WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN SEAN SPICER

As thousands of participants from countries around the globe prepare to travel to Poland to participate on the 2017 International March of the Living and commemorate Yom HaShoah on the grounds of Auschwitz and Birkenau, we find ourselves outraged, angered and ashamed by the totally erroneous and blatantly insulting comments

Europe prepares for Holocaust education with no survivors

Ynet – European Education Ministers are set to discuss the question of how to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons after all its survivors have passed away. Twelve European ministers will participate in a special conference held on Holocaust Remembrance Day, as part of the 29th March

ELIE WIESEL’S SON TO LIGHT TORCH AT MARCH OF THE LIVING

The son of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel will light a torch in memory of his father during this year’s March of the Living, an annual educational program that brings people from all over the world to Poland and Israel to study the history of the

A celebrity photographer trains his lens on Holocaust survivors

JTA — Harry Borden is Britain’s Annie Leibovitz. Sort of. The American-born, U.K.-raised portrait photographer, 52, admits there “are some parallels” in their careers, though “obviously, I’m nowhere near as successful,” he told JTA. Still, Borden is England’s go-to photographer when a publication wants a celebrity portrait. Elton John, Paul

After Their Holocaust Survivor Parents Pass Away, Children Find a Treasure in Suitcase Left Locked Away for Decades

Haaretz – For decades the home movies from the wedding of a Dutch Jewish couple, Mimi Dwinger and Barend Boers, lay in a suitcase that no one was to open. The bride and groom, who miraculously survived the Holocaust, did not tell their children about the special keepsake from their

Survivor Celina Biniaz: The youngest of Schindler’s Jews

JewishJournal – “Get in rows. March,” the block leader ordered the nearly 300 women in the Auschwitz barracks who had arrived from the Plaszow concentration camp only weeks earlier, in mid-October 1944. Thirteen-year-old Celina Karp dutifully obeyed, though this was the first time in Auschwitz that she had been separated

“If I ever come back”

In 2010, a collection of wartime letters and photographs was discovered in an old cupboard at a high school in Paris. Forgotten for years, the letters were written by a former pupil, Louise Pikovsky, to her beloved school teacher during World War Two. The last note dates to the day

Jessica Chastain on playing a Holocaust heroine in ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’

JTA – Strong women are right in actor Jessica Chastain’s wheelhouse. There’s Maya, the fictional CIA agent in “Zero Dark Thirty,” whose work led Seal Team Six to Osama bin Laden; Melissa Lewis, the heroic mission commander who refuses to abandon a teammate in “The Martian,” and Elizabeth Sloan, the accept-no-prisoners

Should Mel Gibson Be Forgiven Because He Helps Holocaust Survivors?

Haaretz – Before his star rapidly plunged to earth following a series of image-destroying events — racist and anti-Semitic remarks, crude and drunken behavior and alleged domestic violence — Mel Gibson was a Hollywood power player, a wealthy, successful actor, director and producer. Now, more than a decade after his

Edgerton math class collects pennies for Holocaust fundraiser

GazettExtra—Eighth-grade math students at Edgerton Middle School recently were given an unusual assignment that went beyond their normal classroom lessons: Try to collect 1 million pennies. The fundraiser is part of an interdisciplinary unit where all subjects have lessons related to the Holocaust and World War II. For the past