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VIDEO: ‘It’s not clear if the Holocaust is a reality or not,’ Iran’s supreme leader says
Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday once again repeated provocative assertions about the Holocaust, defying the world on a day that it paused to remember the victims of the Nazi genocide in Europe. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a video in which he said America “assists the fake Zionist regime” and that when “they say in their […]
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Merkel: Anti-Semitism in Germany More Widespread Than We Thought
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says anti-Semitism is “more widespread” in Germany than some believe and that action is needed to “deal with it – especially among young people… from countries where hatred of Israel and the hatred of Jews is widespread.” Merkel said on her weekly podcast that anti-Semitism is more “widespread than we imagine, and […]
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Auschwitz Continues to Draw Visitors, in Poland and on Facebook
Record number of people visited the Nazi extermination camp in 2015, including over 60,000 Israelis.
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The Yom Hashoah that changed my life by Samantha Mellman
A visit to these grim sites is not for everyone, but I encourage those with the time and means to trust their faith and go. Every year, when I light a candle in memory of my grandfather’s family and the millions of Jews and non-Jews who were lost, I have the vivid recollections of the March of the Living with me.
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Holocaust survivor’s lifelong search for her dead parents
As she has done for so long, Vivianne Spiegel searches the fading photographs for her parents’ faces among the piles of bodies. She was seven years old when she saw her mother, Tauba, for the last time. It was Paris, July 1942. Her father, Moshe, a Polish shoemaker, had already been captured and turned over to […]
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March of the Living participation boosts Jewish, Zionist identity
A study sponsored by an organization that brings young people on tours of the death camps of Poland has found that its Jewish participants have higher levels of identification with Israel and are more likely to value marrying Jews than the general Jewish population. Conducted by sociologist William Helmreich of the City University of New […]
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90-year-old Auschwitz survivor triumphs in sell-out dance duet
As Eva Fahidi’s performance premiers in Berlin, the Hungarian’s newfound love of expression through movement truly proves it is never too late BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) — “It’s never too late,” smiles Eva Fahidi, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who, at the age of 90, is currently starring in a sold-out duet production with a much younger […]
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Holocaust survivor Batszewa Dagan donates lucky charm to Auschwitz museum
A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor has donated a tiny good luck charm that she says helped her live through three years in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Batszewa Dagan donated a pair of miniature shoes, measuring barely a centimetre in length, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, which is based at the site of the World War […]
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It Took My Mother 50 Years To Talk To Me About Her Experience In the Holocaust—When She Finally Did I Was Speechless
As a Holocaust researcher, Hermann Simon had heard numerous survivor’s stories, but it wasn’t until his mother was 75 years old that she allowed him to hear her own. If I had to locate the exact point in time when I began thinking about preserving my mother’s memories of her survival underground in Berlin during […]
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Outpouring of antisemitism in Hungary after Hungarian Holocaust drama wins Golden Globe
Following the award of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film to Hungarian Holocaust drama Son of Saulyesterday, Hungary has witnessed an outpouring of antisemitism. Hungary’s largest online newspaper, Index, published some of the worst examples. It includes a flood of comments denying the Holocaust and also blaming the Hungarian Prime Minister for congratulating the film’s creators, claiming that […]
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