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News | Israel/Jewish Community
Holocaust Denier David Irving Reportedly on New Speaking Tour of UK
Holocaust denier David Irving speaks to journalists in Warsaw during a 2010 visit to death camps and other World War …
History | History
‘The Invisibles’ Tells the Amazing Tale of Four Holocaust Survivors
A scene from “The Invisibles.” Photo: Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment. When death knocked at her door, Hanni Weissenberg refused to …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Outrage ensues over sausage-museum, hotel and theater plans at site of Buchenwald
Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation said this plan shows a “lack of sensitivity” and a “lack of historical awareness.”
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Palestinian Writer on Holocaust Remembrance Day: Maybe It Happened, Maybe It Didn’t
The main gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. At the Palestinian news site Sama News …
Politics | Liberal Hypocrisy
Rep. Ilhan Omar politicizes the Holocaust on #HolocaustMemorialDay
"She continues to be the absolute worst."
News | The News
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the evil of anti-Semitism lives on but must never be accepted | Fox News
Supporting anti-Semites is intolerable, yet even some Jews have done so over the years -- including some who supported Hitler,
News | News
Holocaust Knowledge Gap Is Global Crisis
A new study finds that almost half of Canadian adults (49%) could not identify a single Nazi camp or ghetto, while a majority (54%) of Canadian adults and more than 6-in-10 Canadians under thirty-five did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered during
News | News
Wiesenthal Center: Longer Life Expectancy Has Increased Chances Of Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals
The Wiesenthal Center explained in a statement that the extension of life expectancy in the Western world has increased chances of prosecuting Nazi war criminals.
News | The News
One in 20 British adults doesn’t believe Holocaust happened, poll finds
In UK survey to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, 12% of respondents maintain the scale of the genocide is inflated; Holocaust Memorial Day Trust laments 'shocking' results
Music | Music
Facebook teams up with Yad Vashem to commemorate Shoah victims online
New project lets online users be randomly matched to one of the 4,800,000 names recorded in Yad Vashem’s central database of Shoah victims.
History | History
Arabs are torch-bearers for Nazi anti-Semitism | JNS.org
The myth of the Arabs as innocent bystanders, who had no responsibility for the Holocaust—and indeed, paid the price for a European crime when Israel was established—is widely believed.
History | History
How a Holocaust survivor narrowly escaped the Nazis — twice | Fox News
At 5-foot-11, Dave Hersch weighed just 77 pounds. The 19-year-old from Dej, Hungary, had been whipped, starved and forced to move 50-pound rocks for a dozen hours per day, all at the hands of the Nazis.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The possibility of a new Holocaust with the reincarnation of antisemitism
The era of “never again” is ending in Western Europe, fading in North America and never penetrated the Middle East.
News | Jewish Community
Granddaughter of Holocaust Survivor Murdered in Paris: We Cannot Be Silent Anymore
Keren Brosh brought many in the crowd at The Algemeiner’s fifth annual “J100” Gala last Thursday in New York City...
History | History
When Jews caught “Syndrome K,” the Nazis wanted NOTHING to do with them
Jewish lives were saved in World War II due to a brilliant plan by Professor Giovanni Borremeo. "The lessons of my experience were that we have to act not for the sake of self-interest, but for principles." - Dr. Adriano Ossicini, inventor of Sy
History | History
Ukrainian city remembers Jews on Holocaust anniversary
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, commemorated on Sunday the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city's Jewish population by Nazi Germany and honored those working today to pre
Politics | Politics
Facebook sorry for removing Anne Frank Center holocaust victims image - Business Insider
Facebook apologises to the Anne Frank Center for removing an article it posted which featured an image of naked child holocaust victims. Facebook said it was...
History | History
VR Tech Is Playing A Key Role In Holocaust Education And Awareness | Social Awareness
Israeli initiatives are harnessing advanced technologies to capture the stories of survivors for Holocaust remembrance.
News | News
Nazi labor camp guard caught by ICE, deported to Germany, completing 'difficult task,' Grenell says
The last known Nazi collaborator living in the United States -- a 95-year-old former camp guard who played an indispensable role in the murders of thousands of Jews -- was deported to Germany from his New York City home early Tuesday morning, completing w
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
Herman Shine, One of the Few to Escape Auschwitz, Dies at 95 :: WRAL.com
His best friend would not leave him behind.
News | International News
Natalie Portman’s disgusting denigration of the Holocaust - Opinion - Jerusalem Post
What does Natalie Portman want?
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Holocaust Survivor Leads Panel Discussion at Comic-Con About Art During World War II
A survivor of three Nazi concentration camps led a panel discussion about art and the Holocaust on Thursday at the Comic-Con International...
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
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.
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
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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
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.
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.
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.”
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Politics | PC Culture
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...
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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 ...
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
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
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
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.'
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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