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Elder Of Ziyon - New AJC survey: 11% of young Americans think Jews caused the Holocaust; US Jews are hiding their Jewishness (video)
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American Bar Association removes reference to IHRA in resolution
This revision of the resolution is a result of a major campaign waged by extremist anti-Israel groups, incl. Human Rights Watch (HRW), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and others.
Politics | Media Bias
Noam Blum buries the Courier Journal for their ridiculous Holocaust Remembrance Day article
A Courier Journal opinion piece said 'Jews do not have a monopoly on persecution and atrocities' in an article about Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Almost A Quarter of Dutch Millennials Believe Holocaust is Myth: New Survey Elicits Shock In Netherlands
A street in Amsterdam, Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Dutch Justice Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz led a chorus of outrage Wednesday over a …
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AJC survey: Half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust
Those with more years of school tend to know more about the Shoah.
History | History
New exhibit on DP camps showcases ‘extraordinary energy’ of the Jewish people
“You see this extraordinary power of their will to live, to create a future for their children and themselves that is connected to their heritage to their traditions,” said Jonathan Brent, YIVO CEO and executive director, of the exhibit at United Nations
Politics | Biden Administration/Congress
Where’s the outrage over Biden comparing illegal immigrants to Holocaust victims?
Millions of economic migrants crossing the U.S. southern border want a better life. But most are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Elder Of Ziyon - Large cache of Jewish objects hidden by Jews in Lodz in 1939 unearthed (lots of photos)
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History | History
'The great unpunishment': How, why so many Holocaust perpetrators got away with it
Fewer than 600 of those who enacted the Holocaust received heavy sentences after WWII. David Wilkinson's docu explores how the mass of Nazi criminals, collaborators escaped justice
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Holocaust survivor, among last prisoners of Auschwitz, passes away
Mordechai Papirblat was a prisoner who worked in hard labor for a period of about 900 days until he managed to escape from a death march at the end of January 1945.
News | Antisemitism Watch
How German It Is: Sentences Suspended for Tormenting a Young Jewish Man
The defendants insisted that the assault had been "light-hearted."
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The Evil of Holocaust Denial | PragerU
Why would anyone deny the single most documented genocide in history? This week, Dennis responds to strong opposition he received from his recent column, If…
History | History
The whole truth about Ukraine’s past matters
Kyiv is right to ask that Stalin’s terror famine be recognized as genocide. But it should be equally honest about those who collaborated with Hitler.
History | History
Chilling, newly discovered photos show Nazi Kristallnacht up close
Yad Vashem says images are first to show pogrom from indoor vantage point; indicate German public was aware and that violence was coordinated by authorities
Politics | Opinion
The Holocaust Is Not Your Metaphor
"A production of Romeo and Juliet for non-binary performers"
History | History
Peter Bergson - The Unintended Hero of the Holocaust Era
Saving 200,000 European Jews.
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How Ken Burns Misuses the Holocaust
Ken Burns’s documentaries blend striking visuals of still photos or archival film with colorful and often insightful analysis and narration. But his skill as
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Torah scroll in memory of the million and a half children killed in the Holocaust
The woman whose three siblings were murdered in the Holocaust is going on a mission to memorialize them
History | History
Auschwitz Was Not Bombed Because the World Didn’t Care
The sign “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) is pictured at the main gate of the former Nazi concentration …
History | History
The first Jew to escape Auschwitz helped save 200,000 lives -- but few know his name
Rudolf Vrba should be celebrated for his role in preventing the deportation of many of Budapest's Jews, says UK author Jonathan Freedland in his new book, 'The Escape Artist'
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Historian: Ken Burns Holocaust Documentary on PBS Whitewashes FDR
Holocaust scholar Rafael Medoff says Ken Burns's new documentary, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," whitewashes FDR's record on saving Jews.
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America’s Holocaust failure through the lens of 21st-century politics
Ken Burns’s new documentary focuses on immigration law and anti-Semitism in ways that both illuminate and distort the lessons of history while largely giving a pass to FDR.
History | History
American filmmaker Ken Burns has a Palestine problem
Why is Burns trying to disqualify Palestine from the conversation? Why resort to a technicality about sovereignty in order to try to push Palestine out of the discussion?
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Inseparable to the last: Sisters who survived Holocaust, moved to US, die days apart
Ruth Scheuer Siegler and Ilse Scheuer Nathan, who said they helped each other survive Nazi camp, are remembered for remaining inseparable throughout their lives
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Has Wolf Blitzer’s father just pulled the rug out from under filmmaker Ken Burns?
Wolf Blitzer's father and the bombing of Auschwitz. Op-ed.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Mass grave holding ashes of 8,000 Nazi victims discovered in Polish forest
Special investigators in Poland say they have found two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles
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AI identifies rocker Geddy Lee’s mother in Holocaust photos
Google engineer develops algorithm to identify lost faces in WWII photos as part of Numbers to Names project
History | History
Elder Of Ziyon - Three minutes of color film footage of the Jews of Nasielsk, Poland, on the eve of the Holocaust
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History | History
Elder Of Ziyon - Arabs admired Nazi Germany - not in spite of genocide but because of it
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Elder Of Ziyon - The Holocaust was well documented even by 1943, but the world didn't care
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Politics | Opinion
What have we really learned from Yom Ha’Shoah? | Israel National News
Yom Ha’Shoah comes to teach, to remind, to educate and to wake up a sleeping nation. Even in Israel, a major wake-up call is needed.Opinion.
History | History
We're all obligated to remember the victims of the Holocaust
"Dear Berthe, this is already the fourth day. I am on the train car now. I hope, my child,
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Global Jewish Population Not Yet Recovered From WWII, According to Israeli Data
Thousands of runners take part in the 2018 Jerusalem Marathon on March 9, 2018. Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90. JNS.org …
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‘March of the Living’ Resumes After 2-Year Hiatus: ‘Almost the Last Opportunity to March With Holocaust Survivors’
Participants attend the annual “March of the Living” to commemorate the Holocaust at the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, in …
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96-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv
Boris Romantschenko, who was not Jewish, survived four concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald
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Thanks, Whoopi! Why Holocaust Education Is mostly counter-productive
Shoah education proposes that Jews are easiest to murder without payback, and it makes Jewish youngsters want to escape that fate. Op-ed.
History | History
How the Science of Racism Led to the Holocaust - The war against the divine image in man
Can the world survive on ethics devised by human reason? Well, we tried. It’s called the 20th century.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Holocaust reenactment at D.C.'s Watkins Elementary School should remind us antisemitism is a severe threat
How many attacks must we sustain before the world accepts that a message of Jew-hatred has become systemic?
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88-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Challenges ‘The View’ After Whoopi’s Comments: Put Me On The Show
On Monday evening, prompted by ABC’s “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg making harshly insensitive comments about the Holocaust in which she insisted, “It’s not about race. It’s not about race. … It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about. … These are two white groups of people,” an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor tweeted a message to “The View” challenging them to have her on the show.
Politics | Debunking Lies
Elder Of Ziyon - “Most Influential Arab Newspaper" says "Palestinian Holocaust" worse than ...The Holocaust
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History | History
Elder Of Ziyon - When was the term "holocaust" first used for the Holocaust?
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News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
'Shema Yisrael' pendants discovered in Sobibor Excavations
The pendants were uncovered in areas where victims were forced to undress before being herded into the gas chambers and near one of the mass graves.
History | HISTORY
Wannsee Conference: The most shameful document of modern history
The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, was not about consumer trends, projected profits or shareholder value, it was about life and death. Specifically, systematic death.
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‘Nothing Compares to This’: Survivors Denounce Online ‘Trivialization’ of Holocaust Found in Study
Dutch vaccine refusal activists are seen wearing images and clothing associated with the Nazi Holocaust at a demonstration. Photo: CIDI. …
Politics | Opinion
Holocaust Education and “The Elephant as the Table”
Interview with Master Holocaust Teacher Dorene Schwartz-Weitz on the need for mandatory Holocaust education.
Politics | Opinion
Holocaust manipulation: Do not defile their memory
“She gave my dad life and then he gave me life and now I’m helping her to survive,” said Toronto physician Dr. Jordana Sacks.
Politics | Opinion
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Myth of the Good German
Some Holocaust movies are embellishing history to impart the wrong lesson.
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Fourth Expert Resigns From Polish Government’s Auschwitz Council After Appointment of Hardline Nationalist Stirs Controversy
A sign at the Auschwitz death camp ordering “Stop!” in German and Polish. Photo: Reuters/Kacper Pempel. Another expert has resigned …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The First Lesson of the Holocaust: The Jewish People Will Never Allow Anyone to Do This to Us Again
Iran parades missiles with the words: “Israel must be wiped off the map.” - The First Lesson of the Holocaust: The Jewish People Will Never Allow Anyone to Do This to Us Again
History | History
The Holocaust truths left out of the history texts
The story school history books leave out tells how the US and Hitler cooperated in the crimes committed against the Jewish people. Op-ed.
Politics | BDS
Outrage as South African BDS Advocate Tells Students, 'Hitler Committed No Crime'
Supporters of the South African BDS campaign rally in Johannesburg on May 31, 2019. Photo: Screenshot A prominent South African …
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US Announces $235 Million Aid Package for Palestinians; World Jewish Population Reaches 1925 Level | Honest Reporting
US President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced the restoration of $235 million in US assistance to the Palestinians, including to the
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‘Poland Cannot Hide The Truth:’ Anger Among Jewish Leaders as Warsaw Court Orders Holocaust Scholars to Apologize for Alleged Libel
Spectators attend a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two in Warsaw, Poland …
History | History
The Jews who fought back during the Holocaust
Our communal sense of history and peoplehood give us the strength to continue while our enemies fall by the wayside. Op-ed.
News | Antisemitism Watch
The IHRA does not include Holocaust inversion (saying Israel is acting like Nazis) in its definition of Holocaust distortion. Why the hell not?
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Politics | Politics
Sheldon Schreter - The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel
Sheldon Schreter – The Shoah and the Creation of the State of Israel Many Jews and non-Jews, both friends and enemies of Israel, assume that Israel was founded as a result of the Shoah of European Jewry. While the Shoah was indisputably an important
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Obituary: Moshe Taube, renowned cantor and Schindler’s list survivor
Squirrel Hill resident was a ‘giant in the community,’ a leading cantor and prominent witness to Holocaust
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Study: More than one in 10 Americans under 40 thinks Jews caused the Holocaust
Holocaust knowledge particularly low in New York, despite state having the largest population of Jews in the US
News | Antisemitism Watch
Report: Facebook Doesn’t ‘Recognize Holocaust Denial’ as Anti-Jewish Hate Speech
Facebook logo. Photo: www.shopcatalog.com via Flickr. JNS.org – Facebook, according to an Aug. 10 report, “actively promotes further Holocaust-denial content …
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In historic first, Israel Air Force flies above Dachau camp in Germany
A joint drill by the Israeli and German air forces on Tuesday included a historic flyover above the Dachau concentration
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Fountain dedicated to Holocaust survivors vandalized at Santa Rosa cemetery
Antisemitism, antisemitc incidents and Anti-Zionism anti-semitism anti-semitc
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Never forget? Report warns Holocaust studies neglected in Israel
A new report on Holocaust education in Israel's universities and colleges points out a lack of academics who focus on
News | Antisemitism Watch
In Tweets, Ex-US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Questions Number of Holocaust Victims
Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Photo: Reuters / Joshua Roberts. A former US congresswoman and notorious anti-Israel activist and conspiracy …
History | History
New Book Reveals a Gripping True Story From Auschwitz | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner
The main gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. In his gripping new book, The Boy …
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
Remembering the Holocaust in a post-'sacred survival' era
For several decades, the Holocaust shaped the way American Jews thought about their place in the modern world. For the
Politics | Opinion
Being Fired by Trump Does Not Make You a Holocaust Victim
Government bureaucrats aren’t endowed with a God-given right to work in the executive branch of the United States government. Most of these "victims" will find lucrative work elsewhere.
History | HISTORY
In eastern Europe, when Nazis killed Jews, a 'carnival atmosphere' prevailed
In a new, second book about ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ Father Patrick Desbois depicts in grim detail local bystanders' culpability while Nazis implemented the Final Solution
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‘I Wish I Could Say We Germans Have Understood the Holocaust,’ President Steinmeier Confesses in 75th Anniversary Commemoration Address
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (r) embraces his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin at a Holocaust commemoration event in the Bundestag in …
History | History
Auschwitz survivors: First Jews sent to the Nazi concentration camp were teenage girls
As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Edith Friedman Grosman, who was 17 when she arrived at the Nazi concentration camp, tells her harrowing story in a new book
History | History
Twin sisters were liberated from Auschwitz, but not from Mengele
The experiments to which Yehudit and Lea Csengeri were subjected to by Dr. Josef Mengele have made them afraid of doctors to this day
History | History
Why the Bombing Auschwitz Argument Still Matters
The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Honoring Holocaust victims means fighting anti-Semitism
This week, an extraordinary conference is taking place in Jerusalem: Prime Ministers and heads of state from over 30 countries
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Last Auschwitz survivors speak: 'We haven't won, but we've taught our grandkids'
Heart-wrenching testimonies from survivors living in Israel, as the Jewish state prepares to host world leaders on the 75th anniversary of the death camp's liberation
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Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account minimizes Polish complicity for the Holocaust
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Poland Asks Netflix to Make Changes to Documentary About Nazi Death Camp Guard
Convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk leaves a courtroom in Munich after the verdict in his case, May 12, …
Miscellaneous | Judaism
A Psychotherapist’s Shema in Auschwitz - Vaetchanan
What is it about the Shema Yisroel prayer that has inspired so many through the most trying of times and has provided such meaning and purpose to help us survive even the most despairing circumstances?
History | History
Holocaust survivor owes her life to a Nazi officer’s Great Dane
Nina Dinar, 93, has loved dogs since childhood and that saved her in a Nazi labor camp in Poland
Politics | Politics
Milano Comes Under Fire After Comparing Pence to Himmler
Actress Alyssa Milano came under fire on Sunday after comparing Vice President Mike Pence to the architect of the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, with side-by-side pictures on Twitter.
Politics | POLITICS
Holocaust survivor: AOC 'should be removed from Congress'
93-year-old Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg has no time for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statements last week, when she called the southern border’s migrant detention centers “concentration camps.”
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The Long Legacy of the Shoah in Scandinavia – Tablet Magazine
Within the Northern European countries that make up Scandinavia there has been a revival of active scholarship and popular interest into the treatment of Jews during World War II. The subject is very much alive in these countries and much more so than in
Politics | Politics
MENKEN: AOC Is Dividing Americans And Inciting Anti-Semitism
After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used “concentration camps” and “Never Again” together — a unique reference to the Nazi death camps — and then retweeted leftist Jews hoping to justify the linkage while she simultaneously denied that she ever connected them in the first instance, I honestly thought it couldn’t get worse.
Politics | Politics
Concentration Camps? Stop Hijacking Jewish History | The Jerusalem post
US media has now joined the debate about concentration camps.
Politics | The "Squad"
Rashida Tlaib slammed by House GOP over statement that Holocaust gives her 'kind of a calming feeling'
House Republican leaders called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to "take action" against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her "kind of a calming feeling."
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Palestinian Television Claims Images of Holocaust Victims Show Arabs Killed by Jews
A composite image of victims at the Nazi concentration camp of Nordhausen (right) and the same image broadcast by Palestinian …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
On Yom Hashoah - look for YOUR name in the Yad Vashem database, and light a candle for you
To make the Shoah a little more real for you, look up your (Hebrew) name in the Yad Vashem database of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
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Passover Seder to be held in Warsaw Ghetto for first time in 76 years | The Jerusalem post
Before the Holocaust, approximately one-third of Warsaw was Jewish.
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Study Shows a Third of Americans Think Holocaust Murders Exaggerated
The “Hall of Names” commemorating victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Photo: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons. …
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Allies knew of Holocaust in 1942, 2 years before previously assumed, UN documents prove | The Times of Israel
UK, US, Russia were aware of millions killed by Nazis, new book says, shedding damning light on refusal to take in refugees or try to halt slaughter
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 …
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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.”
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.
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.
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
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Steven Spielberg urges mandatory Holocaust education
Director, actors, recall filming ‘Schindler’s List’ at special 25th anniversary screening
History | HISTORY
Why this Holocaust survivor still wears his concentration camp uniform | New York Post
Ed Mosberg’s hands stay steady as he slips into the striped cotton jacket and matching cap — an outfit identical to one he was issued 75 years ago, as a...
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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
The Holocaust's Great Escape | History | Smithsonian
A remarkable discovery in Lithuania brings a legendary tale of survival back to life
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.
Miscellaneous | Other Stuff
Charles Krauthammer: The Holocaust and American Jews - NY Daily News
Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for the presidency ever.
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
Miscellaneous | Jewish
The indelible mark on the Jewish people - Blogs - Jerusalem Post
Yad Vashem, our constant reminder. From year to year, the hard to describe events of the Holocaust are distancing from the present. The people who survived the Concentration Camps, the Crematoria and the unimaginable atrocities, are in the process of leaving this world to take their place next to the Almighty’s heavens.
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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
Holocaust survivor and American rescuer have touching reunion after 70 years
Jewish Scene: Images capture emotional moment as former Dachau prisoner salutes soldier who liberated him; 'I am eternally grateful.'
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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.
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