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My mother’s journey to survive
My mother’s journey to survive Star columnist travels to his mother’s hometown where her family was slaughtered in the Holocaust Words and photos: Martin Regg Cohn, Columnist RAVA RUSKA, UKRAINE — This is where my mother’s family died in the Holocaust. And where Helen Edel found the will to live. Barely 16 years old, she […]
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Schools to feature Israeli peace song during Remembrance Day Memorials
On Nov. 11, Canadians will gather at cenotaphs, schools, churches, synagogues and other public places to mark the sacrifices of Canadian soldiers in armed conflicts around the world. To make the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II even more significant, March of the Living Canada (MOL) is asking schools taking part in […]
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A Pilot and Holocaust Survivors, Bound by War’s Fabric, Are Reunited in Brooklyn
By: Eve M. Kahn, The New York Times Alan Golub, center, at a reunion last month in Brooklyn with some of the Hungarian women he helped as a pilot during World War II CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times You never know when a pistol pointed in wartime will lead to hours of […]
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How Plans To Build a Monument to Righteous Gentiles in Warsaw Fell Apart
By: Liam Hoare, eJewish Philantrhopy “From Those – You Saved” was a simple enough idea: a monument and memorial to Poland’s Righteous Among the Nations on the grounds of Warsaw’s Museum of the History of Polish Jews (POLIN). Originally to be built by autumn 2015, it has faced opposition from museum officials and Polish […]
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Living History
The March of the Living has sent more than 200,000 people, both Jewish and not Jewish – students, Holocaust survivors, teachers, governmental, communal and religious leaders – on trips that take them first to the concentration/ death camps and to Jewish sites throughout Eastern Europe and then to Israel. A new book, Witness: Passing the […]
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MOTL Film Captures Devotion Of Guide Dogs And Their Masters
It’s amazing the impact a beloved animal can have on a person, even after 71 years. Max Eisen remembers the last time he saw his dog, Farkas, as if it was yesterday. The image is seared in his memory, and you can still hear the emotion in his voice as her recounts the […]
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Rare Postcards From Warsaw Ghetto Surface in Poland
By: Aimee Amiga, Haaretz Living in London while her family was trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, Tamara Frymer had one line of communication with her beloved back home: postcards. At the time, all letters going in and out of the ghetto were heavily censored, and no mail was permitted between […]
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Why These Jewish Teens Are Listening To The Stories Of Holocaust Survivors
By: Antonia Blumberg, Huffington Post Jewish teenagers in fifteen countries from around the globe will meet with Holocaust survivors on Nov. 6-7, for “A Shabbat to Remember.” The event, organized by Jewish youth organization BBYO, falls just days before the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a wave of violent anti-Semitic attacks instigated by Nazi Party officials in 1938. […]
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Living Word from a Dead World
By: Yardena Schwartz, Tablet When Tzipora Shapiro walked out the gates of Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, the first thing she felt was guilt. Her father, grandfather, brothers, aunts, and uncles all died in the Lodz Ghetto, and when the Nazis transferred Shapiro and her mother to Auschwitz, she watched as they sent her mother […]
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Nuremberg Nazi Site Crumbles, but Tricky Questions on Its Future Persist
New York Times, by Alison Smale NUREMBERG, Germany — In this city, the rallying point for Hitler, is the largest piece of real estate bequeathed by the Nazis, and a burden only increasing with time. First comes the sheer physical size: a parade ground bigger than 12 football fields. A semicircular Congress Hall that dwarfs any […]
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