• Alumni Reflection: Julia Ellis “I Traveled All The Way To Poland To March For Those Who No Longer Can—And It Changed My Life Forever”, 2016

    I went on March of the Living to make sure that not one victim of the Holocaust died in vain; I promise I will never forget. by Julia Ellis I don’t even know how to begin talking about this trip, but I’m going to try my best to do it justice.

  • Marking the Ghosts in Poland’s Old Jewish Cemeteries

    How do you alert people to an absence? Across Poland, different communities come together to clean up and restore Jewish cemeteries. But in some places, those cemeteries have been not just neglected, but replaced — with sites ranging from stadiums to parking lots to playgrounds. That’s where Katarzyna Kopecka, Piotr

  • Students learn from survivors

    Miami-Dade College students were inspired by courageous stories that Holocaust survivors shared with them in round table discussions. This took place at MDC‘s North Campus during a recent Student Awareness Day presented by the Holocaust Documentation & Education Center (HDEC). There were 130 students who heard discussions from approximately 13

  • Holocaust survivors rush to beat deadline on Poland claims

    WARSAW, Poland — A Jewish organization launched a database to help thousands of Holocaust survivors or their heirs regain property lost in Warsaw due to World War II and communism, after the Polish government issued a six-month deadline on claims. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, announced the new

  • Holocaust survivors’ 3D project preserves testimony for the future

    Steven Frank, 81, sits in a red leather button-back armchair, answering questions from schoolchildren. “What was the first thing that made you smile after the Holocaust?” A cup of tea made with sweetened condensed milk, says Frank; it was “nectar from the gods”. Another asks: can you forgive? Frank says:

  • Is It Time to Recognize the Jewish Oskar Schindlers?

    This summer, the Jewish Rescuers Citation was awarded posthumously to Wilfrid Israel, a long-forgotten German Jew. He saved the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, but lost his life in 1943 when, for reasons unknown, the plane he was on was shot down by the German air force.

  • Holocaust jacket found at tag sale leads to a life story

    The blue and grey stripes struck Jillian Eisman like a lightning bolt. She was rummaging through a packed closet during a Long Island tag sale when she immediately recognized the symbol of horror and hate: a jacket worn by a prisoner at the Nazi Dachau concentration camp during World War

  • Police: Stolen Nazi Camp Gate Probe Could Be Complicated

    The investigation into how an iron gate stolen from the Nazis’ Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany ended up in western Norwaymay be complicated because “no useable evidence” has been found, police said Saturday. Police spokeswoman Kari Bjoerkhaug Trones says the gate with the cynical slogan “Arbeit macht frei” —

  • Jews of Aden recall the pogrom sparked by UN vote on Palestine partition plan

    Shimon Sasson, 84, of Tel Aviv, was 15 when the riots broke out in the port city of Aden. It happened just after November 29, 1947, the date on which the United Nations approved the partition plan for Palestine, paving the way for the founding of the State of Israel.

  • France Returns Nazi-looted Art to Holocaust Survivor’s Grandson

    France has returned a 16th century work of Nazi-looted art to heirs of the Jewish family that was forced to sell it in Paris during Nazi occupation in World War II. French Culture Minister Audrey Azoulay handed the painting attributed to Flemish artists Joos van Cleve or his son back