News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Facebook’s Zuckerberg says he won’t remove Holocaust denial posts

Founder of social media giant says those denying Holocaust may be doing so unintentionally and should not be removed, drawing condemnation from ADL; later clarifies remarks

I am going to quote the words of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on this one: “Unacceptable & outrageous remarks by @MarkZuckerberg about #Holocaust denial. Must clarify his remarks & make clear Holocaust denial is a willful and hateful attempt to trivialize murder of 6 million Jews. No room for Holocaust denial on @facebook...”

News | News

How the U.S. pressured Poland into softening its law on Holocaust speech

Trump and Polish president Duda did not meet once during the Polish leader’s five-day visit to the United States last month, while Trump did meet with the president of Uzbekistan at the White House.

“Polish honor” means Holocaust denial. Hitler put the camps in Poland because the Polish people were even more antisemitic than the Germans. They continued to murder Jews AFTER the war. This law was one thing: revisionism. Ironically, their opposition to the law rests on invoking modern versions of the same anti-Jewish gripes that the Germans used to pursue the “final solution.” It’s pathetic that not much has seemed to change among many Europeans.

“Polish nationalists, however, the original law was essential to defending the country’s honor and preventing scholars and journalists from using terms like “Polish death camps” or portraying Poles as anything but victims of the Nazis. And they knew just who to blame for softening it: Israel.“

Politics | Op-Ed

Rampant Holocaust denial in the Arab world

The problem is in the hearts and minds of Arab youth.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Steven Spielberg urges mandatory Holocaust education

Director, actors, recall filming ‘Schindler’s List’ at special 25th anniversary screening

He is very obviously correct about this.

News | News

One-Third of Americans Don't Believe 6 Million Jews Were Murdered During the Holocaust

Seventy percent of Americans believe people care less about the Holocaust than they used to.

History | History

Holocaust Denial on PA TV - Palestinian Writer Hani Abu Zeid: The Jews Colluded with Hitler in the "False Holocaust

MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, Urdu-Pashtu, and Turkish media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and

most of my family died in holocaust

News | Human Interest Stories

NEVER AGAIN? On Yom Hashoah, Poll Shows Two Thirds Of Millennials Don't Know What Auschwitz Was

According to a new survey released on Thursday by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, fully 41 percent of Americans don’t know what Auschwitz was, including two-thirds of Mil

History | History

Rivlin to Polish President: Poles Helped Nazis Exterminate Jews

Pres. Rivlin told his Polish counterpart Andrjez Duda that while some Poles helped save Holocaust Jews, others participated in their extermination.

many of my family

News | News

Israeli Entrepreneurs To Host Hackathon For Benefit Of Holocaust Survivors | News Flash

The initiative by TLV Starters aims to harness the 'power of the Startup Nation' to create feasible solutions for improving the lives of survivors, and combating Holocaust denial.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The brutal killing of a Holocaust survivor raises anti-Semitism fears in France

French authorities are investigating whether the victim was targeted because of her religion.

The problem with Europe isn’t that most Europeans are flagrantly antisemitic. It’s that way too many Europeans tolerate antisemitism. So they are less overtly anti-Jewish, but, as we know that attitude has the same dire results. So flagrant or merely tolerant, they allow innocent people to be murdered simply based on their Jewishness. It’s the 21st century and not much has changed in Europe. That this happened to this woman, a survivor of the Holocaust, is absolutely atrocious.

News | The News

Guns could have saved Jews from holocaust, Alaska congressman says | The News Tribune

Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, argued at a recent Juneau conference that Jews could have averted the Holocaust if they’d been armed.

News | Interesting Links

CNN’s Camerota confronts Holocaust denier running for Congress in heated interview | TheHill

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Thursday confronted the Holocaust denier who is the sole GOP candidate running for an Illinois House seat.

News | News

Polish government cancels scheduled Bennett visit over Holocaust remarks - International news - Jerusalem Post

“The blood of Polish Jews cries from the ground, and no law will silence it. The Government of Poland cancelled my visit, because I mentioned the crimes of its people. I am honored.”

That the Poles were complicit in the Holocaust HISTORY, not a subjective claim. Hitler CHOSE Poalnd because he knew the POles were even more antisemtic than the Germans. And, in fact, Poles continued to murder Jews even AFTER the war ended. This is just one more piece of proof that Europe's inherent antisemitism has never waned, it was just better hidden for a few generations. Poland is just as disgusting as ever.

"Now, the next generation has an important lesson about the Holocaust of our people, and I will ensure that they learn it,” he said, adding that the decision by the Polish government “has a role to play in Holocaust education, even if they intended it to achieve something else.”

"The Polish bill would impose up to three years of jail time for using the term “Polish death camps,” when describing such death machines as Auschwitz and Treblinka, or for implying complicity of the Polish nation in the Nazi murder of millions of Jews and other minorities during WWII."

Politics | Other Politics

Holocaust denier is sole GOP contender in Illinois race for Congress | TheHill

A Holocaust denier is currently the only candidate on the ballot in the GOP primary for Illinois's third congressional district, according to

This is atrocious and not good for the GOP.

Sports | Cycling

The incredible story of Italian cyclist Gino Bartali, who risked his life to rescue Jews during the Holocaust

The legendary three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia eluded Nazis by smuggling false documents in the frame of his bike during training runs.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

102-year-old Holocaust survivor reunites with newly discovered nephew | The Times of Israel

Eliahu Pietruszka believed his brother, who escaped Warsaw ghetto, had died in a Russian labor camp, but, generations later, a Yad Vashem genealogy project led to incredible news

Such a touching story. People need to understand that the Shoah (the Holocaust) was a blip in time ago. That's one of the many reasons that forgetting that it happened, or minimizing it, is so disgraceful.

History | History

Auschwitz-Birkenau: 4 out of 10 German students don′t know what it was | News | DW | 28.09.2017

Just 47 percent of 14- to 16-year-olds in Germany know that Auschwitz-Birkenau was a Nazi death camp, a survey shows. Its authors cite fewer history lessons as a reason.

When I was in my 20s, I knew Germans in their 30s who knew next to nothing about the Holocaust. These were people who grew up in its immediate aftermath. Germany is still schizophrenic about Holocaust education and that only feeds the deniers in their despicable attempts.

History | History

Reconstructed Auschwitz prisoner text details ′unimaginable′ suffering | Germany | DW | 09.10.2017

A newly reconstructed document written in 1944 by a Greek Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz tells of misery "the human mind can not imagine." The text was discovered buried in the ground at the Nazi extermination camp.

History | History

Abba Kovner and Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto

Abba Kovner led resistance fighters in both the Vilna Ghetto and in the Rudninkai Forest against the murderous Nazi enemy during the Holocaust

There are many stories of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. This is just one, they all need to be told. With almost no resources, heroes emerged that took on the Nazis, and in many cases, saved hundreds of lives.

History | History

In film, survivor searches for US soldier who liberated him at Dachau | The Times of Israel

New documentary centers on Steve Ross, who was 'transformed' as a boy by an act of kindness in the concentration camp

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know

At 97, Ben Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive and he has a far-reaching message for today’s world

News | NEWS

Elie Wiesel’s Only Son Steps Up to His Father’s Legacy

Miscellaneous | OTHER STUFF

NBA Great Ray Allen Is on a Mission to Educate Everybody About the Holocaust

Ray Allen at the entrance of Auschwitz. (Image by Elan Kawesch) Last December, retired NBA champion Ray Allen was named a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by then-President Barack Obama. Allen said he was honored to be named to the o

I think this is a great story. The world needs more people like Ray Allen.

Politics | Seriously???

New York Times Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day by Defending Iran and Smearing Israel | Jewish & Israel News Algemein

The New York Times marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with an editorial condemning what it called the American government’s “ominous tendency to demonize...

This is repulsive, but is anyone surprised?

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

You must remember this: Sultan Mohammed V protected the Jews of Casablanca

With anti-Semitism and Islamophobia on the rise, we should remember the enlightened example of the young Moroccan Sultan Mohammed V.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Honor a Holocaust Victim by Tattooing Her Number?

My teenage daughter would like to honor my mother by getting a tattoo of her Auschwitz number. We are quite divided on this issue. Can you please help?

History | History

New documents reveal Allies knew of Holocaust years before previously assumed - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post

Despite the knowledge, the Allies did little to help stop the massacre at the hands of the Nazi regime.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Passed over by Nazis and Communists, remnants of Ukraine's last shtetl prepare to celebrate | The Times of Israel

Numbering just 50 today, the Jews of Bershad have managed to protect their 200-year-old clay synagogue through successive despotic regimes

It has never occurred to me that any shtetls survived the Holocaust. This is amazing. I am sure that this is exactly the kind of place that some of my ancestors came from.

History | History

The Holocaust's Great Escape | History | Smithsonian

A remarkable discovery in Lithuania brings a legendary tale of survival back to life

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The White House Holocaust Horror

The White House's depraved logic for omitting the Jews from their Holocaust remembrance statement.

The abhorrent thing is that the omission of the Jews from the White House statements was purposeful, and not only was it not and accident, but these disgusting people are "proud" of their revisionist history.

Politics | Politics

Musings and Meditations: Offending The Jews Via Overly PC Statements: Trump Doubles Down On Holocaust Remembrance Day

I had to blog about the very infuriating omission of Jews in Trump's Holocaust Remembrance Day statement. This, above everything else, has enraged me.

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

My Parents’ Mixed Messages on the Holocaust

My mother and father survived with two different views of the world. Which one is right?

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Beyond Anne Frank: The Dutch Tell Their Full Holocaust Story - NYTimes.com

News | News

My last Sabbath with Elie Wiesel, a giant of our era - NY Daily News

I was in North Carolina last week when Elisha Wiesel informed me that his father’s health had taken an irreversible turn for the worse.

"I did not know quite what to say. I felt inadequate to the task. But I did not want to choose my words. I wanted them to flow from my heart."

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Elie Wiesel dies at 87; Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor

Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work “Night” is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature, has died, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial said.

News | Interesting Stories

Israel: Dug by Jews, tunnel from Nazi era found in Lithuania

JERUSALEM (AP) — In a Lithuanian forest, an international research team has pinpointed the location of a legendary tunnel that Jewish prisoners secretly dug out with spoons to try to escape their Nazi captors during World War II, the Israel Antiquities

Politics | Politics

Court convicts Auschwitz guard, 94, as accessory to murder

A 94-year-old former SS sergeant was found guilty Friday of 170,000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in prison for serving as an Auschwitz guard, in a verdict that survivors from the Nazi death camp hailed as a long overdue victor

History | History

The Holocaust Without Jews – Attempts to de-legitimize Israel by universalizing the specific suffering of Jews in the Shoah

On Thursday, Israel will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah. As has been the custom for over six decades, a 2-minute air raid siren will be blared across the entire country and citizens from all walks of life will interrupt their daily routines f

"The evolution of two different days of Holocaust commemoration and the ways they increasingly run counter to each other are symptomatic of the seizure of Jewish history and suffering for ulterior purposes. This victim displacement appropriates the most traumatic experience in Jewish history, pointedly erases the specificity of the events supposedly being commemorated, and then harshly chides Jews for inserting their own particularistic concerns into the discussion. At a certain point, these phenomena become a continuation of a specific form of oppression and erasure rather an antidote to “hatred.”"

News | Interesting Stories

The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking - The New York Times

The Germans had vastly more work camps and ghettos than anyone knew.

News | NEWS

Auschwitz survivor is world's oldest man, Guinness says - CNN.com

A 112 year-old Israeli man, who is an Auschwitz survivor, has become the world's oldest living man, the Guinness World Records organization said Friday.

This is great and fitting. Living was the best possible revenge against the Germans and he is doing a lot of it. Good for him!

Politics | Politics

Death of last Treblinka survivor points to post-witness era

The death of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last link to the notorious death camp of Treblinka, perhaps the most vivid example of Nazi Germany's attempt to destroy ...

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

Trial of Reinhold Hanning, Ex-Auschwitz Guard, Opens in Germany - NYTimes.com

History | History

The BBC Flew A Drone Over Auschwitz. What They Caught On Film Sent Chills Down My Spine | Greenville Gazette

Recently, a drone flown by the BBC was flown over the remains of Auschwitz. This was one of the most infamous concentration camps from WWII and the release of the footage is timely, as the

This is literally chilling. You don't understand how large this death factory was until you see it. THIS is why the Shoah (the Holocaust) is different. At no other other time in history was this massive of an effort make to eliminate an entire people (remember that Auschwitz was one of MANY camps). There is no other incidence of genocide in history that was like this, on this scale. Shame on people like Justin Trudeau for their failure to acknowledge that it was the Jews that were the primary target, and victims, of the absolute horror that this video gives you a just a "mere" glimpse of.

"The images revealed by the BBC’s drone are disturbing. While one can walk into Auschwitz and take a tour, these bird’s eye view pictures give a sense for the enormity of the atrocity taking place."

Miscellaneous | Interesting Links

‘Art From the Holocaust’: The Beauty and Brutality in Forbidden Works - NYTimes.com

News | News

Survivor: Edith Frankie | Survivor

I had the honor of meeting this woman today. She is amazing!

History | History

Giving Jews Memory

Giving closure to restless, murdered Jews who did not get a burial place, Catholic priest, Father Patrick Desbois heals old wounds by documenting the truth.

News | News

SS 'accountant of Auschwitz' going on trial in Germany | The Times of Israel

Oskar Groening, 93, recalls the 'atrocities,' admits feeling they were 'necessary,' and now faces 300,000 counts of accessory to murder

The world has a responsibility to track down every last one of these guys. The shame of it is that, in some cases, it took this long.

History | History

Recalling the liberation of Bergen-Belsen - www.jewishaz.com: World

On April 15, 1945, the British Second Army entered Bergen-Belsen. One week later, prisoners in the concentration camp beat Rachel Genuth (my mother) until she lost consciousness. The 15-year-old had managed throughout the war to evade punishment at the ha

I wanted to post this because today is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). There is no shortage of incredible stories about the Holocaust. In fact, we see them all of the time. But just remember: this was real and many of the people who endured this night,are are still with us. As are the people who experienced subsequent genocides because the world has not heeded the lesson of "never again."

News | Media Bias

On Holocaust Memorial Day, BBC Asks 'Is it Time to Lay Holocaust to Rest?

On Int'l Holocaust Memorial Day BBC Tweet suggests it's time to forget the Holocaust; 'BBC has no moral compass regarding Jews or Israel.'

Disgusting. This was AFTER asking if Jewish citizens of the UK have too much power in government. Like I keep saying: NOTHING has changed in Europe. They acted like they learned their lesson, but really, they were just ashamed because the Holocaust happening in their part of the world. But the attitudes that allowed it to happen are still the same.

History | History

Haunting then and now pictures of the town next to Auschwitz

The harrowing moment the Jewish residents of Polish town Oswiecim, renamed Auschwitz by the Nazis, were rounded up in the high street was caught on camera.

Somehow seeing that the tame looks almost identical to how it looked during the Shoah makes it all even more real. I can only imagine what it was like for the victims who would occasionally see the town to know that the people in this town went on with their lives as though millions of people were being murdered feet away.

Politics | Malfeasance

Obama Leaves Holocaust Memorial Off His Schedule

Yesterday, President Obama was in India and took the time to toss rose petals on a monument memorializing Mahatma Gandhi. 

This would have been the last chance for a POTUS to attend a memorial at Auschwitz with a significant number of survivors in attendance. Of course that mattered not to Barack who chose a photo-op at the Taj Mahal instead.

Politics | Politics

The White House Needs a Refresher Course on World War II History

Read into this what you will, but President Obama is building an impressive list of gaffes and protocol lapses related to Poland, World War II, and the Holocaust. During his campaign, Obama mixed up which concentration camp his uncle had liberated: it was

News | NEWS

Tales from Auschwitz: survivor stories | World news | The Guardian

Tuesday 27 January is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Six survivors, some of whom will be returning to the site for the last time, tell Kate Connolly their stories

I am continually astonished when I hear people say that we should talk less about the Holocaust. Yes, you can't base your entire identity on it, and the Survivors certainly have not, but considering that this is just one of many similar events that have befallen the Jewish people (may this be the last one), and it is the closest to use in time we have a duty to teach people about it. That is especially true as Holocaust denial becomes more rampant. It is also an important mark of respect to the Survivors who ate still with us. What they endured is unimaginable.

Politics | Politics

On Auschwitz anniversary, leader warns Jews again targets

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors and world leaders are preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be among those present.

News | NEWS

Holocaust survivor ADOPTS the grandson of Nazi commandant Rudolf Hoess seventy years after he murdered her parents and s

Eva Mozes Kor, 80, who lives in Indiana in the US, has found the compassion to forgive her Nazi tormentors - and has even unofficially adopted the grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess.

This is an insanely unlikely story, but it is also touching...

News | Interesting Stories

He Saved 669 Children During The Holocaust… And He Doesn’t Know They’re Sitting Next To Him.

Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939.

History | History

Auschwitz prisoner No. A7733 finally finds his family - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews

Jewish Scene: Menachem Bodner, a twin survivor of the Mengele experiments, lost his entire family when he was just a little boy. He is still searching for his twin brother, but recently found his first cousins in California thanks to a persistent genealo

This is a great story!

News | News

Iron gate bearing Nazis' 'Work sets you free' slogan stolen from former Dachau concentration camp in Germany

Security guards at the site, near Munich, discovered that the gate, measuring 75 by 37 inches and bearing the words 'Arbeit macht frei' was missing yesterday morning.

Who are these sick people? It's not enough that Holocaust denial is becoming more widespread, but now they are destroying the physical history of it. This is a disgusting desecration of the memory of the Shoah (Holocaust). I just hope they catch the people who did this and can return the sign to its place. It would be nice too if the German "security" guards actually did their jobs, clearly they aren't putting as much care as they need to be into protecting these places.

News | News

93-year-old former Auschwitz guard charged

Oskar Groening slapped with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for his service at the death camp

News | News

What happened to Anne Frank after the Secret Annex? | The Times of Israel

70 years after their capture, the Frank girls' last seven months in camps is well documented, but still rarely discussed

This is the extremely heartbreaking (or, even more heartbreaking) part of the story that is rarely told.

History | History

20 Photos That Change The Holocaust Narrative | Pop Chassid

It's time that we looked at the Holocaust differently. Here are twenty pictures to help us do just that.

Many of these are INCREDIBLY moving.

History | History

Why the Holocaust Occurred in Germany, and Why So Few Resisted (REVIEW) | Jewish

It’s hard to make a new contribution to the field of Holocaust studies,  but German historian Götz Aly accomplishes just that in Why the Germans, Why the Jews? His premise is that the origins of the Holocaust were rooted in the specific anti-Semitism

History | History

Anne Frank arrested 70 years ago today: Read her last diary extract

Anne Frank, the young Jewish diarist celebrated for her courage and resilience while confined to a secret annex during the Second World War, was arrested 70 years ago today.

News | News

EXCLUSIVE: Holocaust denied by students in Rialto school assignment

Dozens of Rialto eighth-graders questioned whether the Holocaust occurred in essays written for an in-class assignment this spring.

Rialto Unified School District administrators, besieged by criticism after the assignment became public in May, claimed at the time that none of the students who completed the assignment questioned or denied the Holocaust, but a survey of the students’ work by this news organization found numerous examples of students expressing doubt or flatly denying that the Holocaust occurred.

Wake up people: this is in California! The more the world turns against Israel, the more it turns against all Jewish people. Step one in that process is denying the Shoah (Holocaust) because that was the event that momentarily made the world sympathetic toward the idea of a Jewish state.

Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

Walmart Apologizes for Decorative Poster of Nazis' Dachau Camp

Walmart and other retailers pulled a poster of Nazi Germany's Dachau concentration camp intended for home decoration.

Is it just me or is the world actually getting more mind numbingly stupid each day???

News | News

Ohio's newly dedicated Holocaust memorial seen as remembrance for victims, sign of hope for future

The monument remembers the millions who died in the Holocaust -- 6 million Jews and millions of people from other groups, including the mentally ill, homosexuals, gypsies, developmentally disabled and political dissidents.

This is a follow up to a story I posted last July. Atheists tried to block the use of the Star of David's use in the memorial. Obviously removing it would have been absurd and just demonstrates how idiotically doctrinaire people can be.

History | History

Onetime Auschwitz Guard Arrested In Philadelphia On German Warrant

Johann Breyer, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1952, is being sought by German authorities in connection with the deaths of 216,000 Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during World War II.

I hope every single one if these bastards realizes that there is no statute of limitations on this.

News | NEWS

Palestinian professor pressured to resign after taking students to Auschwitz

Mohammed Dajani resigned amid row highlighting darkest taboos of conflict with Israel and each side's sense of victimhood in Holocaust and Nakba

History | History

‘Juden Raus’: Nazi-era anti-Semitic board game where you deport the Jews

  Who would have guessed that the Holocaust wouldn’t make for a perfectly peachy board game for the little German children of the Third Reich? As it turns out, getting rid of all the Jews just isn’t that much fun. (Of course, given sound

Politics | Politics

Kitty Werthman Speech 2010 - How a Democracy beset by creeping Socialism became NAZI Germany

The gradual creeping of Socialism transformed a Democracy of mostly-Catholic good people into the dictatorship of Hilter's NAZI Germany. Little changes here ...

We must always be on guard to prevent history from repeating itself.

Music | Music

Wu-Tang Remedy Never Again

Song for the innocent victims of the second world war for the jews who died in that time

Wu Tang Clan, Never Again