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

Honoring Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust Witness Who Kept a Memory Alive

Five months after his death, Elie Wiesel’s family gathered in DC on Wednesday with prominent political figures from the writer and Nobel laureate’s adopted country to honor his contributions to Jewish history and memory. Mr. Wiesel was born in Romania, survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps and spent considerable time

Posthumous honor for US officer who saved 200 Jewish GIs from the Nazis — and never told a soul

NEW YORK — In a singular act of humanity and defiance, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds stood up to a German commandant and saved 200 American Jewish GIs from transportation to a slave labor camp. It was 1945 and Edmonds had been a prisoner of war in Stalag IX-A, a German

Lost Anne Frank Poem to Be Auctioned

A poem written by Anne Frank shortly before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis will be going on auction in Holland shortly, according to the Mail Online. Frank wrote the poem at the age of 12 in the album of the older sister of her closest

‘Maybe this is a prison:’ Holocaust survivor shares her story and pleads for communication

They traveled for hours on the railroad squeezed tightly into cattle cars, thinking they would travel for six or seven hours and arrive in Germany. When the train finally stopped 3 1/2 days later, Renée Firestone was among the thousands of people who poured out of the cattle cars where

Alumni Reflection: No Limit to What We Can Do by Rachel Rothstein, 2016

I am a very emotional person. Maybe it’s part of my personality or maybe it’s because I fall under the category of moody 17-year-old girl. I’m emotional when I get a bad mark. I’m emotional when I get in a fight with my friends. I’m emotional when I hear about

Looking for the light in the dark: A Holocaust survivor’s story

Shimon Redlich, 81, sees his childhood through a complicated prism – through the interplay between Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish relations in wartime Brzezany. As a Jew who survived the Holocaust in the formerly Polish, now Ukrainian town, Redlich’s own memories can only provide the angle of the Jewish axis. But

The photo that alerted the world

Dr Michael Siegel, an eminent 50-year-old German Jewish lawyer, is shown in the photo, bruised, barefoot, trousers ripped, being marched by Nazi ‘brown-shirt’ auxiliary police. The sign hanging from his neck was scrawled with the message, ‘Ich bin Jude, aber ich werde mich nie mehr bei der Polizei beschweren’ –

MOTL Australia: Feeling the Jewish Journey

This is your / our time to shine and show how much this program means to us, our kids and our community! Just get on board and make a contribution. Every dollar counts. Let’s hit that $120,000 that will help fund future participants. Go to www.charidy.com/march Stories like this, in