Schindler’s Factory Will Be Restored Into a Holocaust Museum

A Czech foundation plans to restore the disused factorywhere German industrialist Oskar Schindler saved more than a thousand Jews, giving it new life as a Holocaust Museum. “Our aim is to restore the building to its original condition, including the watchtower,” said Jaroslav Novak, head of the Shoah and Oskar

‘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

Sarah Mizrachi running NYC Marathon to help Irene Hizme, a Holocaust survivor living in Long Island

Some people run the New York City Marathon for the experience. Others do it to beat their best time. But Sarah Mizrachi is doing it for a Holocaust survivor. Mizrachi, a 22-year-old med student at Albert Einstein College in the Bronx, has been training for her first marathon to help

“If Not Now, When?” Holocaust Survivor Population Dwindling, Living in Poverty

The Israel Welfare Ministry and Finance Ministry’s Authority for Holocaust Survivors’ Rights approximates that there are 60,000 Holocaust survivors living today in Israel below the poverty line. This means that they cannot afford nutritious food, proper housing, medical care or winter heating. “Nutrition for the poor and elderly is our

Organizers Of Holocaust March In Germany Ban Israeli Flag

Organizers of a Holocaust remembrance ceremony in Germany reportedly attempted to “remove with physical violence” a Jewish man for marching with the Israeli flag while allowing anti-Israel activists and those sporting the Palestinian scarf, or keffiyeh, to participate. Rolf Woltersdorf joined Thursday’s “Walk In Remembrance” in the northern German city

Holocaust survivors walk the red carpet in Israel beauty pageant

Their hair styled and make-up applied, a group of elderly women carefully take to a red carpet catwalk, waving, blowing kisses and posing for pictures to cheering crowds. Wearing dresses adorned with sashes, the women strut down the runway, at times assisted, for the fourth Holocaust survivors’ beauty pageant, a

Historian May Face Charges in Poland for Writing That Poles Killed Jews in World War II

The prominent Polish-born American historian Jan Tomasz Gross, who revealed the crimes committed by Poles against the Jews during the Holocaust, is gearing up for a legal battle over the “historical truth” against Polish authorities who, it now turns out, are still considering putting him on trial for harming Poland’s

Yad Vashem Locks Horns With Israeli Lawmakers Over Jewish Holocaust Heroes

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will consider a bill Sunday that is the focus of a dispute between Yad Vashem and a group of Knesset members. The MKs want the Holocaust museum and memorial to give the same recognition to Jews who saved other Jews during the Holocaust as it

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