The Human Spirit: Death in the forests

You discover that your grandfather had a role, even a relatively small one, in the mass murder of Jews. You’re a public figure, a journalist, your country’s best-selling author, a mother of two. What do you do? If you are Ruta Vanagaite, you engage in what we Jews call tshuva,

March of the Living Hungary – Az Élet Menete Budapesten – 2016 – élő közvetítés – live streaming

BUDAPEST MARCH OF THE LIVING LIVE STREAM – APRIL 17, 2016

March of the Living to be held in Budapest on Sunday

Tens of thousands of participants are expected for the annual March of the Living in the Hungarian capital on Sunday, 17 April 2016. http://www.eletmenete.hu/ For the past 14 years, the Hungarian March of the Living Foundation has organized the Budapest March. Last year, more than 40.000 people commemorated the victims of the

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

THOUSANDS OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS WERE DENIED COMPENSATION BY BRITAIN, RECORDS REVEAL

U.K. government officials forced victims of Nazi persecution to relive their harrowing experiences for years as they questioned their rights to compensation, newly released records have revealed. In 1964, the German government agreed to contribute a total of £1 million ($1.4 million) to a fund to compensate British victims or