Actor makes documentary on Japanese who helped Jews escape Holocaust

TOKYO — A London-based Japanese actor has created a short documentary film that sheds light on individuals who helped Jews escape from Nazi persecution as well as those who have worked to see that this history is passed on. “There was a Japanese diplomat who issued visas in defiance of the

Our Responsibility As Third Generation Holocaust Survivors

The passing of Elie Wiesel serves as a timely reminder that one day soon Holocaust survivors will no longer be able to tell their own stories. In a world where Holocaust denial is rampant, Generation Y and Z prefer videogames to reading books, and sensationalist culture has inspired apathy to

From Auschwitz To Treblinka: ‘Never Again’ Is The Unmistakable Lesson Of Holocaust

Arbeit Macht Frei! Passing through the arch bearing the inscription meaning “Work Will Set You Free”, one is engulfed with diverse thoughts and emotions. The sea of diverse and youthful faces at the main entrance might give the impression that one was about to enter a monument of past glory.

Ellen Tarlow, Holocaust survivor and educator

Ellen Meinberg Tarlow, 88, formerly of Glenside, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped Germany for America and later told of her family’s ordeal at the hands of the Nazis, died Sunday, Aug. 21, of heart failure at the Quadrangle in Haverford. Mrs. Tarlow lived through Kristallnacht – Nov. 9 and

HOW JUDITH LEIBER SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST TO BECOME A CELERBITY HANDBAG ICON

At 95, Judith Leiber carefully walks down an aisle of her palladian-style Hamptons museum surrounded by 1,500 handbags, most of them bedazzled with thousands of crystals. Her eyes graze two small metal clutches—one shaped like an eggplant and the other, an asparagus. “I just thought it was a good idea to try

WAVING THE FLAG AT AUSCHWITZ IS NOT AN ‘EXERCISE IN CHAUVINISM’

In his recent column in The Canadian Jewish News (There’s More to Polish Jewry than the Holocaust,) Rabbi Dow Marmur suggests that the March of the Living fosters “disdain for Poles and Poland…ignores most of Polish-Jewish history”, and promotes the “indiscriminate loathing of another people.” Rabbi Marmur also suggests that girls and

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, 80, Founder of Hineni Outreach Organization

Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis—the founder of the Hineni Heritage Center, and an international inspirational speaker and mentor—passed away on Aug. 23 in New York. She was 80 years old. She was born in 1936 in Szeged, Hungary, where her father, Rabbi Avroham Halevi Jungreis, was a rabbi. The family was among the passengers

This Day in Jewish History // 1933: Jews Make a Travel Agreement With Nazi Germany

Fearing Jewish-led boycotts, Germany signed the Transfer Agreement, letting 60,000 beleaguered German Jews to reach Palestine, with their money no less. August 25, 1933, is the date of the signing of the Transfer Agreement, which enabled 60,000 German Jews to leave for Palestine while taking some of their money with

Holocaust hero was executed on Stalin’s orders, KGB chief’s diary says

Newly published diaries written by the first head of the KGB clearly state that Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust, was executed in a Soviet prison, the New York Times reported on Saturday – providing the first solid evidence about the Swede’s

Yad Vashem Officials Slam Polish Government: ‘New Bill Is Very Close to Holocaust Denial’

Israeli research institute says effort to forbid claims that Poles collaborated during Holocaust ‘makes Poland part of the anti-liberal movement picking up speed worldwide.’ Yad Vashem officials have harshly criticized the Polish bill that forbids claiming that Poles collaborated during the Holocaust and warned that its approval in parliament would