Lohmann: His mother’s sweater was ‘our lifeline’ during WWII

Holocaust survivor Jay Ipson celebrated his 81st birthday by showing off a gift he’s wanted for a long time: his mother’s sweater. Or, in actuality, a very close reproduction. “It was our lifeline,” Ipson said of the sweater. And he wants others to see the sweater and know the story.

San Diego H.S. seniors share reactions to March of Living

SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego teens who participated in the March of the Living earlier this year–in which a visit to the German Nazi concentration camps in Poland is followed by a trip to Israel — reflected on the first of these experiences in these articles below. Questions about

Holocaust Survivor Finds Peace in Art

Eva Nathanson doesn’t feel the same guilt her parents did for having been spared an anonymous death at the hands of Nazis, when so many others perished. Instead, she feels a compulsion to never spend a moment wasting time and to treat every minute of life as the miracle it

Auschwitz guard jailed for five years in Holocaust murder trial

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard has been convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people at the end of a four-month trial – which is likely to be the last of its kind. Reinhold Hanning was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for

Michigan requires public schools to teach about Holocaust

The Holocaust during World War II and the 1915 to 1920 massacre of Armenians must be taught in Michigan public schools under a law signed by Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday. The new law recommends a combined six hours of genocide lessons be taught at some point between grades 8-12,

Comparing Israel to Nazis Is anti-Semitic, Says International Body

An intergovernmental body devoted to commemorating the Holocaust adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that includes some hate speech against Israel. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, adopted the definition on May 26, according to a statement posted earlier this week on its website. The organization was launched in 1998 and has 31member

U.S. Holocaust Museum gets a treasured Auschwitz manuscript by Primo Levi

Manuela Paul had the precious documents in a plastic folder, inside an artist’s satchel, inside a Whole Foods shopping bag, which she kept at her side the entire bus ride from New York to Washington. The package in her custody was a rare 1946 draft of one of the most

A new song created by March of the Living Hungary, featuring Moran Magal and Tsahi Halevi.

A new song created by March of the Living Hungary, featuring Moran Magal and Tsahi Halevi. Music written by Ferenc Fegya Jávori. Verse by Péter Sziámi Müller [HEBREW VERSION] [ENGLISH VERSION]

After almost half a century, thousands of personal items of the victims of Auschwitz, are returning to the Memorial

More than 16 thousand personal items belonging to the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, originating from archaeological works carried out in the area of gas chamber and crematorium III in 1967, returned to the Memorial after many months of searching. The objects found during the

This Day In Jewish History 1940: Auschwitz Gets Its First Big Shipment of Prisoners

On June 14, 1940, the Auschwitz concentration camp received its first large shipment of prisoners – 728 political detainees transferred from both Dachau, in Germany, and a Nazi prison in Tarnow, in occupied Poland. Twenty of them are believed to have been Jews, with the majority Roman Catholics, resistance members