• New ‘Mein Kampf’ publication ‘a slap in the face to Holocaust survivors’

    As scholars mark first German edition since 1944, Jewish community leaders unconvinced by idea of teaching Hitler’s manifesto ‘as a vaccine against extremism’ As Adolf Hitler’s last official residence, the German state of Bavaria has kept the copyright of the genocidal dictator’s “Mein Kampf” under lock and key since the end of World War II. […]

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  • Novominsker Rebbe Condemns ‘In Strongest Possible Terms’ Rabbi Mizrachi’s Outrageous Holocaust Comments

    The Hamodia Newspaper has published an editorial along with a statement by the Novominsker Rebbe Shlita condemning the comments made by Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, who is a well-known Kiruv Rabbi, which were published by YWN last week. The statement by the Novominsker Rebbe reads: “I condemn in the strongest terms possible the outrageous claim that fewer than […]

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  • Holocaust survivor’s story ultimately lifts the spirit

    “Earlier this week, we were honored to publish a front-page story marking the 101st birthday of Ray Gawendo, a resident of the Norwichtown Rehabilitation and Care Center and a Holocaust survivor whose story is nothing less than awe-inspiring — heartbreakingly tragic, and yet ultimately uplifting. Gawendo’s early life was marked by tribulations of the sort […]

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  • Young Thespians Learn About Holocaust

    A group of young thespians is tackling the tough topic of the Holocaust. The Lafayette Theatre Academy in LaGrange is putting on “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” There are hundreds of beautifully colored butterflies at the Square in downtown LaGrange – 1,000 of them. Only 100 of these are white. It’s a way to help […]

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  • France upholds law singling out Holocaust-denial as crime

    PARIS –  A French high court has upheld the law singling out Holocaust denial as a crime, ruling that the World War II genocide is of a “different nature” than other crimes against humanity. A math teacher fired after being convicted of Holocaust denial had challenged the law, saying it unfairly punished only those disputing […]

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  • The Boys of Auschwitz

    How my father, a Holocaust survivor, found beauty in a soccer match When I began work on a book about my mother and her friends I had only a vague notion of what I wished to do, much less how to go about doing it. My only thought was to resurrect the sounds of words, […]

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  • Hungarian faces jail for Holocaust denial on Facebook

    BUDAPEST (AFP) – A Hungarian man is facing a possible jail term over Holocaust denial comments on Facebook, a sentence handed down under a 2010 law banning public denial of genocides. The man, identified in a court ruling as Norbert Juhos, 38, made the comments on Facebook last August in response to an article published […]

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  • Prince Charles succeeds Queen Elizabeth as patron of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

    The Prince of Wales has succeeded his mother, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, as the new patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Queen Elizabeth has been patron of the organisation since its inception ten years ago. She has visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 2015 and frequently hosts Holocaust survivors at Buckingham Palace. When the […]

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  • Monsey Rabbi Apologizes for Erroneous Holocaust Claims in Video

    After generating controversy for his assertions that only one million Jews perished during the Holocaust, while the other five million may not have been considered Jews according to halacha due to rampant assimilation and pervasive intermarriage, Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi, an incredibly inspirational kiruv rabbi and lecturer issued an apology. The video in which he made […]

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  • Holocaust Memorial Group organise special event

    A GROUP of young people have organized a special event to highlight the devastating impact of the Holocaust and the lessons which should be learnt from it. Since it was formed three years ago, the ‘Holocaust Memorial Group – Hartlepool’ – a group of 14 young people aged 13-19 – has been working to commemorate […]

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