Assemblyman Cymbrowitz Announces Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest

Last week, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (D-Brooklyn) invited students in grades three through 12 to participate in his 2016 Holocaust Memorial Creative Arts Contest. According to a press release, the annual contest provides students with an opportunity to “reflect on the Holocaust, examine how its lessons continue to impact our lives,

Museum Honors Poles Who Saved Jews During The Holocaust

Seventy-two years ago, the Holocaust banged on the door of the Ulma family, knocked it down, dragged them all away and ended the lives of 16 people. Eight Polish Jews and eight ethnic Poles died in March 1944 – members of the Diner, Grunfeld and Goldman families, along with Jozef

SET Architects installs towering steel Holocaust memorial in a Bologna square

The space at the heart of this rusting steel memorial narrows to a width of just 80 centimetres, designed to make visitors empathise with the “feeling of oppression” experienced by Holocaust victims (+ slideshow). Designed by Rome-based office SET Architects, the Bologna Shoah Memorial is located on a city square in Bologna, Italy, close to the

Cyprus unveils holocaust monument (PICTURES)

Cyprus and Israel’s defence ministers unveiled a monument on Wednesday, honouring children of Holocaust survivors whose passage to Israel went through the island more than half a century ago. Israeli minister Moshe Ya’alon arrived in the morning in what was a historic first official visit by an Israeli Minister of

Oving Architecten shrouds concentration camp house in glass as a memorial to the holocaust

The former home of an SS commander at Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, has been enclosed within a giant glass vitrine by Dutch studio Oving Architecten. Intended as a memorial to the second world war, the large glass box creates a vitrine-like enclosure around the clapboard residence of SS commander

US Holocaust museum to collect items for time capsule

WASHINGTON – The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking messages and personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors for a time capsule to be opened on the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2043. The capsule will be on display in the museum’s David and Fela Shapell Family Collections and Conservation Center in Bowie,

University of Oklahoma Will Return Camille Pissarro Painting to Holocaust Survivor

Camille Pissarro, Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep (1886). Photo: Courtesy the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. After a three-year legal dispute, the University of Oklahoma (OU) has agreed to return Camille Pissarro‘s 1886 painting La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep) to French Holocaust survivor Léone Meyer.

Anne Frank’s father Otto’s lost letters reveal Holocaust survivor’s ‘other Anne’

A worldwide quest to find the letters of Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, has revealed that an Australian woman became his unlikely confidante after he survived the Holocaust.Young people from all over the world who had been touched by his daughter’s plight wrote to Otto Frank after the publication of

Austrian parliament nixes event honoring pro-Hamas, anti-Israel Jew who fled Nazis

The spokeswoman for the president of the Austrian parliament informed The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that an event slated to honor Hedy Epstein – an anti-Zionist Jew and defender of Hamas – has been canceled. “In consideration for the concerns against some of the participants, the Austrian Parliament has cancelled

Duchess Camilla Expresses ‘Pride’ Over UK’s Treatment of Holocaust Survivors

Britain’s Duchess of Cornwall said on Tuesday she is proud of how the country has taken care of Holocaust survivors and refugees who escaped Nazi persecution, Britain’s Jewish News reported. Camilla, 68 — the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (who was first married to the late Lady Diana) — visited the Holocaust Survivors Centre (HSC)