A Holocaust Survivor Built the Superbowl’s Hottest Hotel

When Super Bowl fans descend on Houston this February, many of the town’s visitors will have David Mintzner to thank for the warm hospitality. He died a few months ago, at 101, but not before conceiving the city’s new Marriott Marquis hotel — with its record-sized ballroom, ornate chandeliers and

New online generation takes up Holocaust denial

A new generation of Holocaust deniers is emerging through a clutch of popular “gateway” conspiracy theories, according to one of the UK’s leading experts on the subject. As Denial, a film about the disgraced historian and notorious Holocaust denier David Irving, hits cinemas later this month, attention is focusing on

Poles Who Killed Jews Removed Themselves From the Polish People, President Says

Poles who took part in the murder of Jews in pogroms around World War II expelled themselves from the Polish people, Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday at the start of a state visit to Israel. In a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin, Duda spoke of the pogrom

Alumni Reflection: Jeremy Benhamou, Leo Martin, 2016

In May of 2016 I was extremely fortunate to participate in the Leo Martin March of the Living. This two-week long trip to Poland and Israel not only inspired this essay, it also altered the way I think about everything! This incredible program, which began on May 2nd and ended

Archaeologists uncovered a pendant at a Nazi death camp — with possible ties to Anne Frank

Researchers say a recent Nazi death camp excavation has turned up personal mementos from victims, including a teenager’s triangular pendant that closely resembles one that belonged to Anne Frank. The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial said in a statement Sunday that Jewish victims’ personal belongings, including the pendant, were unearthed at the former Sobibor death camp in

The girl who survived the Holocaust: Woman shares harrowing momentos from Bergen-Belsen on special Antiques Roadshow

Unique artefacts that survived the Holocaust were showcased on a special edition of the Antiques Roadshow. The items, including a pair of striped pyjamas from Auschwitz and food bowls from Bergen Belsen, each tell remarkable stories from Europe’s darkest days. And one Holocaust survivor, Zahava Kohn, 81, today tells how

After the Holocaust, Only This Young Composer’s Music Survived

One of the greatest tragedies of the Holocaust (itself the greatest tragedy of modern history) is the irreplaceable loss of talent – not just of the people who were murdered, but also the works, discoveries and inventions that were murdered along with them. Earlier today, the Boston Globe published a story

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