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International Holocaust Remembrance day brings lessons and memories
Working together to honor Holocaust survivors and remember the ones who have passed, St. Louis teens and people all over the world celebrate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. On this day, in 1945, one of the largest Holocaust concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated by Soviet troops, saving about 7,000 people. “Six million people […]
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The National Holocaust Centre uses public cloud for digital preservation project
The National Holocaust Centre and Museum (NHCM) in Nottinghamshire is using the public cloud to digitally preserve the voices and stories of World War II genocide survivors for future generations. The NHCM serves as a memorial site for the millions of victims who lost their lives under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, and also aims to […]
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Uncovering Holocaust perpetrators where few have looked
BOSTON — With new access to archives and other primary sources, historians are supplanting archetypal images of Aryan Nazi men as the Holocaust’s sole perpetrators. Previously obscured perpetrator “sub-groups” are being exposed one portrait at a time, ranging from women who guarded death camps to Dutch bounty hunters of Jews in hiding. And as researchers […]
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(VIDEO) Dershowitz: ‘When I Speak About Israel on Campuses, I Need Armed Guards to Protect Me From Radical Leftist Students’
Former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz revealed on Tuesday the extent of the danger in which he sometimes finds himself as a result of his support for the Jewish state. “When I speak on college campuses in favor of Israel I need armed guards protecting me from radical leftist students who use physical intimidation,” the author of The […]
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Israel urges Italy to bar Iran president over Holocaust cartoon contest
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met Friday with his Italian counterpart and told her to prevent Iranian President Hassan Rouhani from arriving in Italy on January 25. He asked President of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy Laura Boldrini to prevent the visit in light of Iran’s decision to hold an exhibition of cartoons ridiculing the Holocaust on International Holocaust […]
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Knesset Speaker to UN’S Ban: Condemn Iran’s Holocaust denial cartoon contest
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon must publicly condem and directly address Iran’s Holocaust denial, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein wrote in a letter to Ban on Wednesday. The letter came in light of an international Holocaust cartoon contest, sponsored by the Tehran Municipality. The winner of the competition will receive a $50,000 cash prize. The event is […]
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Center Field: Celebrate Martin Luther King Day by saying Gaza isn’t Ferguson
Over the last week, many American Jews celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday at their synagogues, in community centers, or in African-American churches. Most American Jews, from Left to Right, embrace King’s message of racial equality, personal dignity, constitutional justice and aspirational democracy. I am making a personal plea to every rabbi, every community leader, every citizen, […]
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Kuwaiti student expelled from French university over anti-Semitic Facebook posts
(JTA) — A Kuwaiti student was expelled from the prestigious Sciences Po University in Paris over anti-Semitic comments made on Facebook. Amira Jumaa is the first student to be expelled from the institution since it was founded in 1872, according to Haaretz. She reportedly was expelled in December in a decision by the university’s disciplinary […]
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Celebrating Aristides de Sousa Mendes, diplomat and Holocaust hero, who saved 10,000 Jews
Los Angeles Jews will celebrate the life and moral courage of a devout Catholic beginning Jan. 22, with the world premiere of an oratorio, an exhibition, film screenings and a memorial service. The honoree is the late diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who in 1940, while serving as Portugal’s consul general in Bordeaux, France, saved […]
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Holocaust survivor and ex-Sutton High School student awarded MBE
A former Sutton High School student who survived the Holocaust has been awarded an MBE for raising awareness of the atrocity and for services to the Jewish community. Agnes Grunwald-Spier, 71, also helped establish the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and has written two books about Holocaust rescuers and how the Jews were betrayed during WWII. […]
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