AZRIELI FOUNDATION BOOSTS FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

Holocaust survivors who are in financial distress are getting a $457,500 boost thanks to an allocation from the Azrieli Foundation. The funds will go to four Canadian organizations that provide services to an estimated 3,000 elderly survivors in communities across the country. Many are in dire financial straits and find

BIALIK College is on a mission to collect 600,000 buttons, searching all corners of the community, and the country, for those that have fallen off, been forgotten or are simply lying around.

Last year, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, New York City approved its 2016 fiscal year budget, which, for the very first time, included a $1.5-million-dollar allocation to assist Holocaust survivors living in poverty. The landmark decision to pass the New York City Council Survivor Initiative was

Bialik’s Button Mission

BIALIK College is on a mission to collect 600,000 buttons, searching all corners of the community, and the country, for those that have fallen off, been forgotten or are simply lying around. This is no ordinary sewing project, as the students have a very noble aim – to unite the

How to teach the Holocaust

“Names, Not Numbers” is a copyrighted curriculum that teaches Jewish middle-schoolers about the Holocaust with an emphasis on the oral testimony of survivors, which the children immortalize on film. Focusing on individuals rather than numbers also is the approach encouraged by the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem,

Beyond Anne Frank: The Dutch Tell Their Full Holocaust Story

AMSTERDAM — Anne Frank is only part of the story. The diary of the young Jewish girl, who came of age hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, has long been the dominant narrative of the Netherlands’ experience during World War II. Hers is a story of inspiration and resistance that

MY VISIT TO AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU WITH PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU

On July 10, I walked with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau through the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau where, at age 15, I confronted death for the first but not for the last time. It all started three days earlier when Eli Rubenstein, the Canadian director of the March of

Philip Bialowitz, Who Escaped a Nazi Death Camp and Testified in Court, Dies at 90

Philip Bialowitz, a Polish Jew who escaped Sobibor, a secret Nazi extermination camp, in the aftermath of a dramatic prisoner uprising and bore witness to the horrors of the Holocaust in a powerful memoir and in courtroom testimony, died on Aug. 6 in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 90. The cause was congestive heart

A Letter to my Daughter Kim Before She Embarks on the March of the Living

A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on the March of The Living… Dearest Kim, The March of the Living is an extraordinary, unforgettable experience. With thousands of Jewish people, from countries all around the world, you will share in a once in a lifetime experience when they

Grandson of Holocaust Survivor Wins Silver Medal for France at Rio Olympics

A French Olympian who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor won a silver medal with his team on Monday in the men’s freestyle relay finals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. The swimmer, Fabien Gilot, — who, as Tablet reported, sports a Hebrew tattoo that says, “Without them, I

Florida Holocaust survivors back in Warsaw to perform in former ghetto

A musical duo of Holocaust survivors from Florida who have toured the United States returned to their native Poland to perform there for the first time, at an outdoor concert in Warsaw. Polish television and radio stations will be broadcasting their concert live to millions of people, according to From