Why Did Adolf Hitler Hate the Jews?

One can’t consider the Holocaust without wondering about the source of Adolf Hitler’s hatred for the Jews. Although much of his political manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” was devoted to explaining that hatred, which was clearly shared by an enthusiastic German nation, the actions taken against Europe’s Jews were so monstrous in

International jurists to mark double Nuremberg anniversary

The Educational organization March of the Living, which each year after Passover brings people from all over the world to Poland and Israel to study the Holocaust, will mark the 80th anniversary of the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials with a gathering

Notable Nuremberg Legal Conference to Convene

NEW YORK, April 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — March of the Living International will mark the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Laws and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials with a gathering of leading international jurists, legal scholars and political leaders from around the world organized with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre

The Polish hipster who inherited a Warsaw building after discovering he’s Jewish

Two years ago, the serenity of the residents at 62 Zlota Street was disturbed. Krzysztof Gutkowski and Ida Zagrzejewska, a thirty-something Polish couple, entered the large building in the Polish capital with unusual news. “Nice to meet you, we are your new landlords,” they told the dozens of speechless tenants.

500 Years Later The Mysterious Origin of the Word ‘Ghetto’

Five hundred years ago, in the year 1516, the first official ghetto was established, in Venice. It isn’t that Jews hadn’t lived in isolation in Europe’s cities before. They had, by choice. The nature of their religious observance requires Jews to live near a synagogue, a Jewish butcher, and Jewish

Art From The Holocaust: The Stories Behind The Images

A historic new exhibit, Art from the Holocaust, opened in the rear wing of the German Historical Museum in Berlin last week. For the first time ever, art from the collection of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Museum is being shown outside in Germany. The exhibit features 100 works, mostly drawings and

48 years since expulsion of Poland’s Jews

By Daniel Schatz This month marks the 48th anniversary of the state-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign of March 1968 in communist Poland. The last remaining survivors of the Holocaust – in a country that, prior to the war, had more than three million Jewish citizens – were declared to be “foreigners,” “Zionists,”

Henry Winkler’s Symbol Of Holocaust Survival Lives On In Hollywood

Henry Winkler, the Jewish actor best known as tough-talking Arthur Fonzarelli — aka, “The Fonz” — on the 1970s-80s TV show “Happy Days,” is earning a new reputation. As a protector of a unique Holocaust legacy. Now 70 and a graying grandfather, the son of refugees from Nazi Germany, he

Meir Dagan: From the shadow of the Holocaust to the top of the Mossad

When news of Meir Dagan’s death broke, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen expressed on behalf of the organization’s employees and its past chiefs deep sorrow at the news of his death and sent condolences to the Dagan family. Dagan, the tenth Mossad chief, was appointed by his close friend Ariel Sharon

POEM: Dancing in Auschwitz by Eva Schottenstein, 2016

We are revenge, incarnate Destined to walk, to listen, to remember, to pass on We are revenge incarnate We march, hands intertwined with those of strangers along with brothers Fingers braided tight as bread, seamlessly converting visitors into natives Heads held high, along with fists, along with flags Chanting, stamping,